Things That Are Orange

Things that I can’t stop thinking about after 5 days of a low carb “cleanse”

• Bagels
• Beer
• Cheeseburger
• French Bread
• French Fries
• Pasta
• Pizza

Do you think having all that in one meal would be overkill?

Questions that I do not have answers for

If you don't pronounce the b in thumb, why do you pronounce the b in Thumbelina?

Things that are pointless to attempt when my mother visits

• avoid alcohol
• avoid carbs
• get a jump on final project for class since friends will be in town next weekend
• do any homework at all

Things That I Know Aren't Practical in 2010, But Mad Men Still Makes Seem Strangely Appealing

• Architectural Undergarments
• Beehive Hair-dos
• Men in Fedoras
• Three Martini Lunches
• Smoking
  

Celebrity Girl Crushes

• Marion Cotillard - she is an a amazing actress, and also seems to want to be a mermaid when she grows up
• Tiny Fey - because what nerdy girl doesn't have a girl crush on Tina Fey?
• Christina Hendricks - for bringing curves back (and subsequently bringing clothes that curvy girls can wear back)
• Kristin Chenoweth - I just finished Pushing Daisies and my love for Cheno is pure. Here's some of that.
  
• Helen Mirren - because, well, duh

addendum - I don't know how I could have forgotten Tilda Swinton and Cat Deeley. JSP would fight me for Cat Deeley. and I think everyone on earth is powerless against SWINTON!

Things that Make Me Go "Dear Christ, It's Still Only July 19th!"

• White House/Black Market's "First Ever Peek at Fall"
• Staples' Back to School Savings

Not cool, people.

Movies that Netflix thinks I will like

• The Riches
  
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Pee Wee's Big Adventure
• In Search of Beethoven
  
• La Strada: Special Edition
• Kat Williams: The Pimp Chronicles: Pt. 1
• Doc Martin: Series 1
  

My favorite thing on the Bumpit website

Bumpits are not edible.

I did not make that up. It is here, bottom right hand corner.

Ways That My Cat Helps With My Morning Workout

• She observes, disdainfully
  
• She attacks the Wii remote when I put it down
• She curls up on the floor between my thighs and my feet when I'm doing sit ups
• She bats at my toes when I'm balancing on one leg

Books I Started Reading While Writing My Thesis That I Still Have Not Finished

• Cranford
• This Republic of Suffering
• The Curious Indecent of the Dog in the Nighttime
  
• Lolita
• Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

The Four Best Kisses I Never Had*

4. "Bartender" at Sleep No More: at the end of the performance when you wordlessly unmasked me, your stare was so intense that I thought you were going to kiss me. I found that I was strangely disappointed when you didn't.

3. J(1): You drove me home from a party and we got laughingly lost. When we said goodnight, there was a moment that I thought might change our friendship forever. And then it didn't.

2. H: I walked you to your dorm, and we lingered there for what felt like forever, and I couldn't find the courage.

1. J(2): I was taken. You were a gentleman. But that one night in your living room, it felt like my resolve and your valor wouldn't last until morning. Considering how things turned out, I'm sort of sad they did...

*I'm not sure if the fact that I can only come up with four missed kisses is an indicator of my bad memory or poor impulse control. Apologies if I have offended any of my seven readers by never poignantly not kissing them.

Things That I Now Know About Russell (as overheard on the 66 bus on Sunday)

• He had a brain infection
• He couldn't talk for three months
• He is totally not gay
• He made out with this chick in Ireland
  
• All of the above is terrifically funny (or so the hysterical laughter of the woman telling the story would seem to indicate)
  

TV shows that I love, that were cancelled before their time

• Firefly
• Pushing Daisies
• Better Off Ted
• Party Down (was just getting into that one)

and from the vaults

• Sports Night
• Freaks and Geeks
  

Places I would like to go

(in no particular order)

• Iceland for the Northern Lights
• Machu Picchu for my birthday
• Brazil for Carnivale
• London for The Dutchess of Malfi (though it's sold out, and I probably couldn't get to London in the next two weeks anyway)
• Australia for about 6 months or so
  
• Botswana the next time B3 is there for a while
• Sochi for the Olympics
• Italy for the food and wine
• Dollywood for obvious reasons

Guilty Pleasures

• Ice, Ice Baby
• Empire Records
• Butterscotch Krimpets
• Cosmopolitan
• Cosmopolitans
  
• Calzones from that place near JSP's and bad movies
• SYTYCD
• Maury's paternity shows when I'm home with a cold
• Cheesesteaks and Hoagies when I'm back visiting my family
• Cheerleader Movies (particularly Bring it On IV, In It To Win It)
  

Perfumes and colognes that remind me of specific people

• Alfred Sung - I still keep a bottle of it around for when I want to think about my grandmother
• Burberry - I don't remember which one, but someone in my class wears it, and it brought me right back to that summer with Frenchman number 1
• Axe - Oh, K., it's a good thing you were so good looking
• Drakkar Noir - the Axe of the nineties. Somehow more interesting on a woman. Or maybe, I was just nineteen and everything that woman did seemed interesting.

For those of you keeping track - I wear Organza by Givenchy.

Things I've worn in the last 6 months, that when put together become my costume from Bye-Bye Birdie in high school

• Red and white striped shirt
• Cropped rolled up jeans
• Ballet flats
• Red head band

Things That Displease Me

• sleeping in this heat
• (well, trying to sleep in this heat)
• doing anything in this heat

Julia's Twilight Drinking Game

Rules:

• Go to a bar and have your friend explain everything that has happened in the books/movies so far, because you have been living under a rock and have no idea what they are about.
• Go to a matinee of Eclipse (preferably having cut out of work early, but it's okay if you just have your office close early for the holiday weekend)
• Bring Jack Daniels
• Drink whenever someone says Bella or Edward, meaningfully stares or sparkles.
• We added "during lengthy speeches on a Victorian concept of a woman's virtue" for obvious reasons.

warning - we ran out of whiskey about 3/4 of the way through the movie, and would have added "when all the vampires appear on a hill looking like a Vogue Shoot" but were significantly out of luck.

ps - for those keeping score, I am definitely on team Jacob. Robert Pattinson's eyebrows creep me out.

Things that Make the Heart Beat Faster

Coming back from the shower, dressed in a towel, and seeing someone outside your bedroom window. (it's worth noting that I live on the second floor)

Apparently, my landlord is having the roof fixed, and they needed the landing outside my window for their second ladder. Or they wanted to see me in a towel.