Observations (and some updates)

1. With my godsister's Nokia phone, you can type "brunch" in the calendar feature (with the "dictionary" function on) and get "crotch" instead.

2. Maybe if I picked up a hairbrush once in a while, I'd stop waking up mornings looking like a Gorgon.

3. I've seen girls who artfully line their eyes so they look like little Cleopatra darlings - more subtle but still regal - and wish I could make up my peeps like that too, but I'm too lazy to spend that kind of time on drawing. As it is, any eye makeup that I own is used only when I attend weddings, and how many of those do I go to anyway? It's about time I throw that stuff out before it transforms into something biologically active.

4. My new bag is too heavy. The handles leave red welts on my shoulders.

5. All my loved ones are thousands of miles away from me.

6. I am presently the sole caretaker of Snowy, which means she gives me more attention now.

7. I finally know what emo hair looks like now.

8. My other respite from work: tango on Tuesday nights at Xenbar and the biweekly milongas. I'm done with two beginner's courses now (which makes it three beginner's courses that I've taken in 11 months) but I'm still waiting for my tango shoes to get here. At least two people have asked me to get into performance tango, but I don't think I want to dance on stage. It's nice that the instructors think I'm actually good enough, but tango as social dancing is more my thing. No one cares how I dance except whoever I'm dancing with.

9. Borders actually brings in copies of the Best American series, and also the The O. Henry Awards series, which impresses me to no end. The store has been particularly frustrating when I'm looking for the kind of books I want.

10. For years now, I've noticed that prices of books and DVDs on Amazon.com fluctuate (even the ones on Amazon.fr), at times within a period of three days. Who decides the price changes, and why change them at all?

Posted by Monoceros at May 28, 2006 10:51 PM