New Doppelganger Pair Discovered!

A little known fact--I have a thing about doppelgangers. Harry Connick, Jr and Jeff Goldblum, I can barely tell them apart. I don't know if it's because I'm Asian and so all white people look the same to me or what.

When I saw the previews for a history of violence, I thought it was gonna be something like Secret Window, Secret Garden, where the main character has multiple personalities or something. Why? Because Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen are the same person, basically.




For heaven's sake, which is which? I'm not going to tell you, because it doesn't matter. They're the same. And I just saw another movie they starred in together, Appaloosa. They play best friends who ride around the west keeping the peace. Or was it twins who ride around keeping the peace?....I'm not sure.

For Monica

Why do I find Justin Timberlake so much more attractive now??

We have a new cat! Rather, one of the ferals has promoted himself to the status of housecat. It's Tupac, and a couple of weeks ago, he started meowing to come inside the house in the evenings. I figured it was because he was cold, and so he got to come inside a bit to be cuddled by Aaron or even occasionally, me, despite my allergies. He would fall asleep in a lap immediately. And drool.
Then we went to Taiwan for 2 weeks, and I think the balance of power shifted in the backyard from Tupac to Big Poppa, who took over the kitty hideaway that Tupac always used to stay in. So when we got back, Tupac started meowing to get in at all hours of the day and night. And so, he is now inside almost all the time. He never wants to leave, even when it's nice weather outside. He even has a litter box now, which he makes a royal mess of, desperately trying to cover his poop. But he uses it, and that's the most important thing! It probably doesn't help that it's the tiny kitten-sized litter box we had for the fosters.

What about my allergies, you say? Well, it helps that Tupac knows his place (for now) and listens when he's told to keep off the couch. He just lays on this blanket we had laying in the corner waiting to be washed, and kneads it. And the blanket is the color of dough, so it is very fitting.

I really wish I'd given him a better name than Tupac, if he is going to be our real housecat now...I was trying not to get attached to the ferals, and thus gave them all half-joking rapper names.
It's cool that his coloring is similar to Dwight's--black mostly, w/ white on his chest. He doesn't have white on his face or feet though.

Currently working at the library. There are workers building a scaffolding just outside in order to change the lightbulbs on the second floor. The racket is unbelievable. But how I wish I could be one of those workers, balancing on a metal scaffolding, with my day's goal being the changing of a lightbulb.

It's only been 4 days since getting back from vacation, and I am already really really down about everything. It's like if you offered someone in a terrible situation a 2 week vacation where they could do whatever they wanted, the catch being that they would then have to return to their terrible situation, now a hundred times worse in comparison. I was going to say Auschwitz, but I thought that might seem a bit extreme. To you, not to me.

edit: okay, a bit extreme even to me, but really not by much.

Hello from the library!
I am feeling chipper this morning because Aaron and Dwight made a lot of room on my side of the bed last night and I got some good sleep.

So here I am at work, surfing one of those forums I told you about, and there's a thread that asks whether the current economy is affecting people's designer bag purchases. And here is what one of them said:

No, but the quality of Balenciaga has caused me to slow way down. Also I have been spending it on other things like showing my Tibetan Spaniel, Tim Cotterill bronze frogs, etc. However I just saw how much we lost the past 3 months due to the market *GULP* so maybe time to stop shopping and just enjoy going to the beach, on the boat, out to dinner etc. for a while.
Hope all those people that bought houses they could not afford and that we are now paying the price think twice next time. It's really a no brainer. If you make less than 50K a year, a 400K house is probably not a good idea. Gotta love good ole Fannie and Freddie.

Holy crapola! Tim Cotterill bronze frogs? Oh yes, good choice...and then put down people who make less than 50 K a year and buy an expensive house! I mean, not that buying a 400K house is a smart decision, but at least it provides shelter, which is more than can be said of her purchases. You try living on that salary and still pay off your boat!
And let me just say that, yes, I have fallen down the rabbit hole a bit, but thank god I don't know what Tim Cotterill bronze frogs are. I am not old enough to start collecting random nick nacks that are useless except to drive my future kids crazy when they have to clean up my "estate."

By the way, the guy that I am working with today (online tie guy) winked at me yesterday as I checked out a study room, and just bought me a donut and called me honey. And since he has a mustache that curls at the ends, and I believe, a wife, I find it all oddly charming.

While looking for my cardy uggs (boy is that a story to tell), I noticed that Oprah had them listed as one of her Top 10 Favorite things of 2008. The fact that I know anything at all about Oprah sickens me, because all I need to know is that she likes to take literary classics like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and act like she's "discovered" them for America. Sadly, (for America), she probably has for many people. Also, the only person who graces the cover of O magazine is...you guessed it, herself! (What other magazine does that???) And basically, she wants to rule the world.

Have you noticed the increased tinge of bitterness that now pervades my blog posts? I used to be happily cynical, now I feel like I am just angry cynical. I don't believe in a thing in the world except the people I know and love (which are few and far between...you know me), books, and creatures, and it has turned me into someone I don't quite recognize.
Shall I tell you more about it? Because I have quite a few embarrassing things to confess--I guess we could call them mental crutches, though they all really just revolve around one thing--shopping. It has become a problem. Not so much a money problem, but a mental problem. It bothers me that if I don't have something I am obsessed with buying or something on the way to me in the mail, I am bored with life and don't know what to do with myself. I actually started working again at the library to support my addiction, so that I can buy the occasional unnecessary item without affecting our budget.
In addition to shopping, I have all of a sudden become obsessed with fashion forums. Why?? I don't have any clue. I all of a sudden know who people such as Kim Kardashian and Ashley Tisdale are, and have opinions on how they dress. It's truly driving me insane. It's such a meaningless pursuit.
The thing is, clothes/shoes/bags are things that I can take an hour out of my life, go to the mall, and buy, that I can then carry around with me while I go through my boring days to keep me cozy and a modicum of entertained. Everything else takes too long--reading books, watching movies, going to the park, etc. These are all outings that I feel too guilty to take hours out of my day to do. And it is driving me absolutely insane.

If you can tell, I really really need this vacation.

In any case, I thought I should have a Top 10 Favorite Things of 2008 post as well. That's what I started out meaning to do, but now I'm too pissed to even do it. Maybe later. My brain feels like there's a fungus in it itching to get out. Oh wait, that fungus is med school.

I am at school catching up on lectures, and can I just say that I think Dr. A.R.D.N., M.D. is a smug bastard...not have rodents as pets my arse.

Grr. I am in a very bad mood because I am at school.