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Well, there's this great interview with the producers from EW. A highlight:

According to the good-humored exec producers, they always knew they weren't exactly making The West Wing, but they never anticipated the trouncing they took from critics last season. ''I've literally made a many, many s---ty movie in my career, and I've never gotten such hateful reviews,'' says Rosenberg (Kangaroo Jack, Con Air). ''To me, the show's a cardigan sweater. It's a Joni Mitchell record on a rainy day. It's a cup of hot chocolate. You may not necessarily like hot chocolate or Joni Mitchell or cardigan sweaters, but why would you violently hate hot chocolate and Joni Mitchell and cardigan sweaters? There are shows like Who Wants to Marry My Cousin's Wife? that got better reviews than October Road. It's a cozy show about a writer who comes back to his hometown and falls back in love. You would think we were decapitating bunny rabbits. Like it was Michael Vick's 101 Dalmatians.''

Then there's Ryan Adams. He apparently loves this show so much that he's recorded music specifically for it AND made a music video with them. I knew I liked that Ryan Adams, endorsements by Jesse Malin and Eric Danton aside.

Labels: funny, music, tv

It's been in this box since we moved and it managed to get daylight savings time right

HOORAY! It's time for my first Elf viewing of the season!

I love this movie so much but, like the best Christmas songs, it's something that can only be enjoyed in the season.

In fact, it may be time for a new Christmas mix. Hooray!

Labels: holidays, movies

1. Health insurance
2. 911
3. The good people who drive ambulances for Cataldo.

It just wouldn't be a holiday without some sort of emergency! We went to the Cape, had a great time, came home. I sat on the chair with my laptop to watch the last half of Grey's and ... that's all I remember until I started to focus on the 3 paramedics and 2 firemen standing in my living room. My first conscious ambulance trip later and we were at the hospital. Then 3 hours there.

Now, I'm home and exhausted but wired.

Thanks, Cataldo and thanks, Melrose-Wakefield Hospital.

The story of my new name on my license will have to wait. It's awesome.

Labels: health, holidays, stories

It's been a hard year so I don't want to go into the whole "thankful" thing because I'll just get depressed.

So here, have this picture of Spongebob Squarepants terrorizing the city:



(PS: Poor Legally Blonde appears to have outfitted themselves in the gift shop)

Labels: holidays, pictures

EDIT: Fixed the link to Joann's site. Ooops.

My awesome friend Joann is planning to go to Chennai, India in January for two weeks with Global Volunteers.

GV is entirely funded by volunteers and donations so the fee is a little steep. She's looking for help in raising $3500 and that's what her website is about. She's really hoping to get sellable items, too, which is really cool. So if you have an old chair or table or weird gadget sitting in your closet that you want to get rid of but just haven't gotten around to it, see if you can get it to Joann (she's in CT) or stick it on Craigslist and donate the money. See, simple! You clear out your clutter and Joann is just that much closer to her goal.

Check it out, either now from this link or later from the link in the bar on the right, and read all about why she's doing this and what she'll be doing.

Go Joann!

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My local stop and shop now has these handheld scanner guns. You scan your store card at the kiosk, grab a scanner, and scan your items as you shop. You can bag as you go so at the end, you just scan the gun at the register, pay, and that's it! Next time I'm going to bring my reusable bags, set them up in the cart, then toss stuff in as I go.

Best shopping trip EVER.

I can't remember what they were called, though, and can't find any reference to it on the internet.

Labels: plastic bags saved, tech stuff

Full report later

...and other new and improved stereotypes!

Please, enjoy this link until I get my brain back from the hypotonic solution labeled ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY that it's currently steeping in.

Labels: funny, other bloggers

There are a lot of events happening around it, but I think the coolest are the Blue Monuments. So on Wednesday wear your blue shirt and look to the skyline and think about those of us with lame pancreases. :)

Labels: boston, diabetes, health, local, news

Can't wait to whip this one out! God help me if I get pulled over. They'll preemptively haul me in.



Also, I am a library card holder once again. That little bar on the right will tell you what books I currently have out to read.

Labels: books, boston, pictures

Me hanging with a donkey at a wedding at the nature center at Northwest Park in Windsor.

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Closet diabetic Halle Berry is now claiming she "weaned" herself off insulin and has magically transformed herself into a type 2.

This is a huge setback. A large part of type 1 advocacy is educating people about the different types of diabetes (1, 2, 1.5, gestational ...) and what they all mean. Type 1s do not produce insulin. 100% of type 1s are insulin-dependent. There is no such thing as weaning yourself off insulin.

None of this changes the fact that a disproportionate percentage of the population believes that if only we type 1s watched our diets better or lost some weight (have you SEEN a typical type 1 at diagnosis? I should dig out pics from 2 months after my own. Skeletor.) like their grandmother did, we'd be able to go off the injections. And here comes Halle, big-time celebrity with the spotlight following her, and she chooses to take this tack. It's insulting and it gives every know-it-all the ammunition to say "I told you it was possible! Look at that Halle Berry! What a hero!"

Shame on you, Halle. I hope you're seeing a good doctor because as that pregnancy progresses, your insulin needs will likely increase as well. Especially since yours seems to be one of them rare 10 month gestations.

Labels: celebrities, health, WTF?

Not much to talk about anymore. I'm temping at a CPA firm in the theatre district. It's wonderful to be able to take the train in, especially because I don't have to change trains.

Nursing school application went in Wednesday night. The essay was my stumbling block but I pulled through. Didn't dress up for Halloween, obviously, and I was home alone for a good portion of the candy distributing part of the evening so I left a bowl and a note on the porch. I was happy to see that the kids were very respectful and didn't grab whole handfuls. I'm really happy with the essay. Maybe I should post it.

I finished my nutrition prereq and am currently doing anatomy & physiology in a self-directed online format. Next up will be Statistics at Quincy College, likely in a 2 week wintersession format. After that, bio and chem in the spring, also at Quincy College.

Meh. I don't even know if anyone reads this anymore. I haven't gotten one comment in probably a month. /end whine.

Labels: boston, daily report, nursing school, whiney