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And then I came home and watched "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," which is my second favorite Hollywood musical. Sexist? Oh, hell yeah. On one level it's ludicrously sexist, but that's all parody. On a deeper level it's good ol' fashioned 50's sexist, and that's harder to swallow. But know that going in, and it's just marvelous. The songs are great, and I sing them in the shower sometimes. ("Bless your beautiful hide / Wherever you may be.") The dance numbers are so great that they made me a little misty, no joke. There are not a lot of movies that make me choke up because of how unrepentantly JOYOUS they are. They don't make those at all anymore.

The #1 musical, though, is always "Singin' In The Rain," which I watched on Thursday night. And yeah, I don't know what it is that makes me get all misty when Donald O'Connor does "Make 'em Laugh," but it gets me every time. It's a totally different kind of misty than at the end of "It's A Wonderful Life"; less sappy but somehow more nostalgic. It's not tugging at the heart strings, but it's tugging at something. It's a feeling of, "Now THIS... this is perfection."

Don't bring a frown to old Broadway
Ah, you got a clown on Broadway
Your troubles there
[flourish] THEY'RE OUT OF STYLE
for Broadway always wears a smile

etc.

I know I do. But if only you knew how very very much I like girls...

The liking of musicals is harder to explain, is all.

I ALWAYS PROTEST TOO MUCH. ABOUT EVERYTHING. I PROTEST ABOUT EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF BECAUSE I'M COLOSSALLY INSECURE. This should not be news, exactly.

WHY THE FUCK AM I AWAKE. so fucking sleepy. i woke up at 6:30 and dammit it's sunday.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bP21zUrMh7s

Which will it be? Netflix or Cable?

Rent
Cell phone
DSL (landline and internet)
Cable
Electricity
Gas

Student loan goes in right after Rent.

Jesse doesn't get TCM anyhoo. I say fuck a bunch of cable.

This is the evil of AT&T dsl. It comes with a landline, no option. Canceling the dsl means getting rid of the phone, and vice versa. They make you sign a contract.

So I have a cellphone and I have a cable modem. So far, no troubles. I don't anticipate many, either, since both of those companies have real competition.

I do wonder, though -- I ordered some stuff from that Alchemy lab of perfumery and I was wondering how long it would take to get here. Has anyone made an order and received it? How long did it take?

I'm having some hot chocolate at my desk. None of my coworkers have commented on the crazy dye job I got this weekend. I look Calico, in a good way, or at least I think so.

I haven't received my Alchemy lab order yet.

Jesse, get rid of your electricity.

I ate my leftovers of Jenny squash with some turkey cold cuts and gravy, to which I added mushroom powder (Spice House?), and as usual, it made me happy.

No joking. Seems like with all the Brown Line crap, if you live north of Belmont, your arrival time to work is in the hands of the Transit Gods. Even leaving the house early does not guarantee anything.

Last night was blazing hot, as it is now too.

See, my trouble is that when it's 40 outside, they leave the heat just as cranked as if it was 20. My skin turns to parchment and my cats begin to char around the edges. But when it's 20, it's juuuust right.

lol at Mai-Tais

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I love my coat, and the Burlington Coat Factory in which it was made.

I leave early! Earlier and earlier every day, yet I still manage to be late. Yesterday I was due at work at 4. I left the house at 3:05, and got to work at 4:20! And as most of you know, I live within earshot of the train. CTA trip planner says my commute should take between 19-25 minutes. No.