it has been a month and a half

since i last spoke about dawson's creek. you're probably glad. however, i have indeed started watcing it from the beginning and i totally understand why so many people loved the high school seasons and then hated the college. i'm sort of glad i saw the college first, because i love those seasons, too, but the first seasons are SO GOOD. joey was so cute. it also makes me understand why penny is so all about pacey and not dawson. dawson was a little annoyingly idealistic and pacey was just clever and funny, albeit academically misguided. and jack! trying to get with joey! before he was gay! and jen! i still find her annoying.

what a fricking amazing show.

speaking of amazing, the baby-sitter's club! egads! so amazing.

trash, crazies, harry potter

the crazies are out in full force.

the craaaaziiiieesss!

the woman down the block--who does NOT live in our apartment building and is NOT in any sort of authority position--likes to go through people's trash on trash day. she will determine if she thinks you have enough trash to warrant your individual can being out on the curb. if it's not up to her standards, she will roll it back. she has made me late to work by telling me all about her theory. she is crazy. not loony lovegood crazy, but still really crazy. i heard her out there at 6:00am doing her trash inspections. i might start putting some real nasty stuff in there.

speaking of loony lovegood, jules and i went to see harry potter last evening after a very successful enrollment meeting and were fortunate enough to meet loony. she is a belfry full of loony. she doesn't quite look crazy enough below.

i just don't like ants.

no. i hate ants. with every fiber of my being. i have tried every trick in the book. okay, three. okay, two actual tricks and one frantic wiping them up constantly with clorox wipes. they are tenacious little buggers. they are everywhere. i put boric acid on the ledge of the window where they crawl in and i thought it was working great until this morning when i saw that they just climbed above and around it. ME HATES IT. whhaaaaaa.

i know they're not harmful and they're just trying to get a meal out of me, but seriously. seriously! ewwwww. yesterday i found one crawling on my forehead on the way to work. i was in my car, three miles away from my house with an ant on my head. not cool.

Wicked, Avenue Q Style!

ok, so this is amazing. especially appropriate considering my obsession with wicked and avenue q, which i'm going to see this evening with jules!

My Little Sister Is So Cute

Somehow, she has wrangled all us Halls up and created a little web page. And sent it out to everyone she knows. She's funny.

Hall Family

Diversity Tomorrow--Because Today's Almost Over

I have headaches all the time. I'm not sure what's wrong with me. I wake up with a headache and get another one in the afternoon. What's the deal? I know--I should drink more water because 97% of headaches are due to dehydration. But seriously. It's chapping my ass.

Also, as much as I love shopping at Whole Foods, I sort of resent the guys behind the seafood and meat counters because I only ever buy one chicken breast or one fish fillet and they always comment on that. "Only one?" "These are pretty small! Don't you want another?" NO I DO NOT. I just want one. Thanks for making me feel lonelier than I already do.

Jules and I went to the Sox-Padres game yesterday and it was a ton of fun. I think it was sort of culture shock for the city of San Diego. Dang, there were a lot of Sox fans there.

Under Penny's advising, I am watching Flight of the Conchords. It is awkward and totally Penny-esque.

When is this headache going to go away?

Farewell to the Creek

After such a long hiatus, I'm sure there's a million and one things I need to update you about.

First, I finally say farewell to Dawson's Creek. It's taken some perseverance, but I managed to catch up on two weeks worth of episodes that I missed during my trip to Wyoming. And not only just catch up, but finish it. Today, I watched the finale of the show and I forgot how much I cried the first time I watched it. My qualm--well one of my qualms--is that they couldn't just dye Katie Holmes' hair one fricking color! This is supposed to be five years later and she's supposed to be this posh writer in New York and she still has half of her hair nearly black and the other half orange. Seriously? What was that hair choice all about? Why couldn't they just dye the bottom half of her hair darker and make it one color? Other than that, and the fact that Joey didn't choose Dawson and the fact that she's annoying, I have only fond thoughts toward the show. Maybe they'll start over at the beginning and I'll be able to see the beginning, which I never did see. Also, Eddie, who is played by Oliver Hudson, is amazing.


So, as I alluded to three seconds ago, I took a trip back to WYOMING. And i did lots of cool stuff. I went to Jackson and Yellowstone and went rafting in the Yellowstone River, resorting at Chico Hot Springs, sweating in a sweat lodge, and lots of other fun things.

I'm very excited: Jules and I are going to see Avenue Q and see the Sox-Padres game! Yay!

Also, I have a job. Ha ha. Finally.