So it occurs to me it's been a long time since I properly read something....like, not short snatches on the Metro or during lunch, but properly sat down and read all evening.  And I miss that, and, lo and behold, I have a long weekend stretching out before me.  First, I am going rowing, but post-rowing, I plan to go to Borders, so....

Quick, best book you've read in the last 6 months?

eta:  Borders now has a section, like, a separate genre dedicated to "Vampire Romance"  WHAT HAVE YOU DONE STEPHENIE MEYER?!?!?!?!

Dear American News Media,

There are things going on in the world that have nothing to do with Michael Jackson.  Could you please at least mention them?

And that goes for you too, BBC, I'm disappointed in you.

No love,
Me

Why is no one ever on AIM anymore?  Have you all switched to something else and abandoned me?  Do you expect me to work at work?

Stalling on completing my self-imposed chore tonight (paying bills and dealing with boring grownup stuff like 401k), I was checking out Facebook.  The only thing I know how to do on Facebook is update my status, which I do with alarming frequency.  Well, tonight, I realized the addictive quality of Facebook-stalking people you used to know.  Here is what I learned:

1.) The guy I dated for a year on college has a kid who looks 5-6 years old. 

2.) The British guy I had an on-and-off-ish thing with freshman year of college is living in Edinbugh, and possibly gay (the photo is ambiguous, but I'm not that snuggly with people I have only platonic feelings for.)

3.) Scary guy who proposed after 4 dates has a new victim girl.

4.) The kid who was my "boyfriend" in kindergarten and used to kiss me every day on the playground is possibly dead.  (Hard to say since people change a lot from 6th grade to adulthood, but he had a really unusual and distinctive hair color.)

5.) Hot Whitewater Rafting Guy is on Facebook.  No action has been taken on this information.

What part of "RSVP by June 18" did people not understand?  It's simple...concise...

You do not RSVP for a meeting on June 22 at 1 pm on June 22 at 10:30 am.  That defeats the purpose of an RSVP.

1.) Went kayaking for like 4 hours today.  Was lovely because I was very PMS-y and as unthinkable it seems when you're lying on the couch cursing being female, exercise really does help.  I'm definitely starting to see definition in my arms...wish I could say the same for my stomach.

2.) My sister's birthday was today, and I completely forgot.  Now, luckily, she has no idea it's her birthday and no idea whether I acknowledged it or not, but I still think that makes me a fairly bad person.  I can't believe she's 10.

3.) I did remember Father's Day, and that's good because my Dad would know if I forgot.

4.) "Merlin" (aka "Doctor Who and Torchwood go to Camelot") started on NBC tonight...I watched the first few eps a few months ago when I had lots of free time, and liked it, so was glad to see NBC picked it up.  And there was a preview of the new Harry Potter movie...Dude litte!Tom Riddle is scary!

Dear Washington Post,

You are a newspaper.  Thus, it stands to reason, I go to your website to read articles.  I do not go to your website to watch videos or sign up to follow you on Twitter or become your Facebook Fan.  Seriously, Washigton Post, Twitter?  Facebook?  You should be ashamed of yourself.  I read The Washington Post because I happen to LIKE my news in bigger doses than less than 140 characters.

Sincerely,
Me, an elitist reader

p.s. I'm cheating on you with the New York Times.

Obviously there is nothing funny about a guard getting shot at the Holocaust Museum, but the following quote, made by some white supremacist guy, from WaPo's story on it, actually made me LOL:

"The responsible white separatist community condemns this," he said. "It makes us look bad."

Um, Dude, no, being a white separatist makes you look bad.  .

There is a company here in DC called Travel Document Systems, Inc. and they are so awesome I want to have their babies.  They are processing a new passport for my boss in one day.  Seriously, have their babies.

And here's a meme, because I'm avoiding a seriously boring manual I have to read.

( Meme )

I think there is some primitive human survival instinct that makes it impossible to turn down free food.  I've just eaten like 5 sandwiches.  I wasn't really that hungry after one, and it's not as though I can't afford to buy sandwiches, but they were free.

Well, tonight I went shopping and got some cute shorts and a cute tank top and a new bag to take boating because last weekend my bag got a hole in it and my keys nearly fell out.  So, shopping put me in a good mood and I'm over the need to be bitchy.  Though, the filtering is good knowledge to have and I'm sure the "people who won't mind of I'm a bitch" list will come in handy in the future.

In the meantime though, give me stuff to take pictures of, with this meme:

1. Comment to this post with absolutely anything that you want to see of my real life.
2. I will post photographs of the requested items/people/places.

How do you filter entries so only certain people on your flist can see them?

(I'm prepapring to possibly be really bitchy.)

I went kayaking today for 4 hours.

It was awesome.

My shoulders are already saying "Oh, bitch, you are really going to pay for that."

I will now commence the sulking about having to go back to work tomorrow, but I'm in too good of a mood to sulk properly.

Sigh. 

The wouldn't let us go rowing today because it was too rough.  How about kayaking?  Nope, too rough.  And it wasn't even above the cutoff level on the gauge, they just arbitrarily decided to suck.

THE WEATHER IS FUCKING PERFECT THERE IS NOTHING ROUGH ABOUT IT.  It's sunny and it hasn't rained all week and if I don't get to paddle or row some kind of watercraft soon I'm going to have a breakdown.

Is not the point of a boat center to provide boats?  It is failing at its reason to exist.  Also, it's ruining my weekend.

I will persevere and try again tomorrow, maybe if I am annoying and whiny persistent enough...

I really am trying to focus on work, but I want the weekend to begin right now because it will be awesome...

Saturday:
morning- sleep in
afternoon- rowing
evening- possibly cook something?

Sunday:
morning: kayaking
afternoon: Nationals game
evening: birthday party

Monday:
morning: kayaking again
afternoon: lunch w/ friend and nap maybe?
evening: be sulky about return to work

...please hurry and begin now kthx.

I'm wearing my favorite red skirt today.  Now, understand, this is a really cute skirt.  This skirt is so cute a woman once offered to buy it from me while I was wearing it.  I haven't been able to fit in it in years.  The working out is paying off! 

Why yes, I am sexy, thank you for asking.

Just dropped my keys down the drain in the bathroom.

Super.

1. Put your MP3/iPod or other device that plays music on "Shuffle"
2. For each question, skip to the next song. Whichever song appears is your answer.
3. YOU SHOULD WRITE THE NAME OF THAT SONG WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT ( Meme )