Guilt.

I've read about 100 pages of The Year of Living Biblically and it's making me feel guilty for a) not reading the Bible (I have no idea what the hell the guy is talking about half the time. Every two seconds I think "the book of what?") and not going to church. I don't remember the last time I went to church.

My connection with religion is weird. I believe in the basis of what I'm supposed to but don't agree with half of what the church says/does. I went to the Vatican when I was in Europe and felt like most Catholics do when they make the trek there (the Pope spoke to us and then it started pouring on is...we blamed Morgan because she's Jewish and "God got mad that there's a Jew at the Vatican." Ha. Still one of my favorite quotes from Fall 2007). I like the story of Jesus's birth and how people in other countries do recreations of it, and I hate when non-Christians celebrate Christmas. We sell The Willow Tree products at work, and there's a replica of the Nativity Scene that I kind of want because it's pretty (The Willow Tree line in general is wonderful), with a two foot tall Mary and a bunch of animals and the like. The Nativy Scene we have at home is, honest to God, one of mice. A little mouse Mary, a baby mouse Jesus, three Wise Mice, etc. They're all clothed, Jesus mouse is in a manger. I forget when my mom and I found it, but I made her buy the entire scene. I've always had an obsession with human-esque animals, which is one of the reasons I have always loved Disney movies.

And I'm pretty sure I'm going to hell. I've broken a bunch of commandments already (and I had to look on Wikipedia to see what they actually are, in order.

1. I am the Lord your god, you shall have no other gods before me.
Given the choice between a Jesus statue and an ice cream cone, I'm pretty sure I'd take the ice cream cone.

2. You shall not make wrongful use of the name your God.
Do it everyday. "Oh my god" comes out of my mouth almost as much as "that's like that Friends episode."

3. Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.
I have to leave for work in a couple of hours. Day of rest and rememberance? Nope.

4. Honor your mother and father.
My philosophy when I was little was "you yell at me, I'll yell back." And that only applied to my parents. Outside my house, I was perfection. Inside my house, I was a demon.

5. You shall not kill.
Bugs only.

6. You shall not commit adultery.
This one apparently includes lusting, masturbation, homosexuality, premarital sex, divorce, and birth control. Which means I've broken it, as well as 99% of the people I know, and most of America.

7. You shall not steal.
Hannah Montana sunglasses in WalMart and a bunch of postcards from a museum in London.

8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
I'm not a great liar, but I can do it if necessary.

9. You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
Oops?

10. Neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
I'm the most jealous person I know. I covet everything.


Oy.

But really, the book is very good. I promise.

Lipstick has a way of leaving more than just a mark on my sheets.

1. I get all of my information from Facebook. When Prop 8 was upheld, I wasn't informed via newspaper or television; I went on Facebook and saw everyone's "Fuck California" statuses and then checked CNN.com. I'm not sure if that's necessarily a good thing, but we're in an age where Facebook and Twitter are being used for more than just keeping in touch with people (even the Cutler Majestic Theatre has a Twitter/FBook for advertising purposes). I guess as long as I'm getting news, the way I'm getting it doesn't matter. Right?

2. Molly's lending me her "Practicing to Take the GRE General Test" book and I started reading it. I'm still not 100% sure if I want to go to grad school, but I should be prepared, just in case. I need to talk to more people about it; the ASB advisor has been giving me advice and has been a lot of help, and I need to make a final decision. I'm probably going to freak out about this like I did with the SATs, and like I do with just about everything else. I kind of liked taking the SATs. I don't know why. And yes, I know how weird that makes me.

3. Even though I have a huge stack of books to read (which just doubled because I went to the library and checked out books to use for thesis research), I'm buying Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach, and The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible, by A.J. Jacobs. We had to read one of Mary Roach's books in the Death Class I took in the fall (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers) and I loved Roach's writing style; informative and witty, always interesting. And something (Jessa, I think) told me about someone who tried living exactly how the Bible dictates, just to prove how ridiculous it is to try to do so, so I'm excited for that one. I was raised Catholic, but one of the biggest problems I have with the Catholic church is how much people pick and choose what to take from the bible. Specifically in terms of condemning homosexuality.

4. I took a bunch of online quizzes and found that I: am Piggy from Lord of the Flies, am a Pomeranian, am Elmo, should live in Paris, should have majored in computer science (ew), am Carrie Bradshaw, am a mix of Monica Geller and Rachel Green, and a bunch of other things I can't remember right now. Great use of time.

5. Forty days until the Hey Monday concert and Blink 182/Fall Out Boy/Panic at the Disco a little less than 2 months after that (tickets haven't gone on sale yet, but we're going, I think).

6. I've taken a break from Game Show Network to watch the first season of MTM.

Go on, grab your hat and fetch your camera. Go on, film the world before it happens.

1. New obsession: Game Show Network. Jessika came over on Friday and we watched 7 or so hours of GSN, with two random hours of Food Network in between. Word games and Family Feud are the best shows because you can yell answers at the TV.

2. Dollhouse is getting better, like I knew it would. SO MANY people were quick to make judgment during/after the pilot, forgetting that Whedon sometimes takes a little while to sink into a story. The first few episodes of Buffy weren't amazing. Whedon himself said the show wouldn't start picking up until a few episodes in; I'm on the fourth or so episode and the story is definitely getting better.

3. The Real Chance girls on Charm School are annoying and I'm glad one of them went home. The Rock of Love Bus girls are bitchy, sure, but at least they don't scream.

4. Target is having a TV on DVD sale and I picked up S1 of I Love Lucy and S1 and S2 of Mary Tyler Moore.

5. Saw a Harry Potter preview last night. Freaked out. Still trying to reread the books; almost done with Chamber of Secrets.

6. Also saw a preview for My Sister's Keeper. Still wicked angry that Cameron Diaz is playing Sara. Ugh.

Amazon removing sales rankings from queer books.

Sales rankings are being removed from gay and lesbian books on Amazon.com because they're considered "adult" books and thus don't appear in some searches or have sales rankings attached to them. Right. That makes sense. Put vibrators on the website and let people rank those, but heaven forbid Brokeback Mountain appear in some searches.

Source


Every time I think we're making progress, we get thrown one step back.

And I said, Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone

I HAVE TO STOP LISTENING TO THIS SONG.

I finished S1 of Lost and went back to S1 of Tru Calling. Then my computer charger died (that was my fourth charger! I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Is there a wrong way to plug it in or something?) so I couldn't watch anything on my computer and also couldn't get the disc out. Since my battery only lasts ten minutes, I had to settle for watching things on the DVR.

Allison and I watched the latest episode of I Love Money 2, which was hysterical ("That was whack! That was whack! And THAT was double whack!"), an episode of The Real Housewives of New York, and then I watched this week's episode of The L Word. Sunday is the series finale. I'm not happy with how the season is going but don't want the series to end, either. This morning I watched the pilot of Gossip Girl. I love the books. I have all of them (except one that Becca borrowed), have read them all, etc. And I'm not good at separating books from films/TV shows. (I leave Harry Potter movies going "That was wrong. Pretty. But wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.") So there are a lot of character details that are completely different from the books and they're sort of bothering me.

Do the people in Tru Calling realize that Tru saves them? Like in Buffy, her classmates recognized how weird Sunnydale was and then gave her that umbrella thing as a thank you gift.
EDIT: Next episode answered my question.

AHH BRIAN KRAKOW!

My ear is itchy.

The Modern Library's 100 Greatest Novels. I've only read 10 on The Board's List and 15 on The Reader's List.


Instead of reading for class, I'm playing this.

Good job being productive, Heather.