Your On Location Quizo Update

I went to the shore this weekend - in fact I am still here, sending this from the confines of the lovely Ocean County Library - since I figured that if the temperature was going to drop to Hoth-like extremes, all things considered I'd rather freeze my ass off at the shore.

Spending a solo long weekend down here - that is, without freeloading friends or the rest of my family around - leads to a strange behavior pattern where I stay up until ungodly hours watching movies on TV that either a) I have seen many, many times before, or b) I would never watch under any other circumstances, including as an alternative to being tortured in a secret CIA prison in Uzbekistan. The general thought process goes: "oh, this movie sucks/is one I've seen a hundred times. Let's do something else. It IS 3:30 in the morning, I could just go to sleep.[pause] [pause] Ah, fuck it, the ashtray's right here, I don't feel like getting up. Ooh, The Bone Collector is on."

This is why, for instance, I watched Training Day in its entirety TWICE in the past three days (a film up until now I had seen probably about eleven times) and why I was weeping like a little girl in the very wee hours of Saturday night at the end of A Walk To Remember. Just thinking about it is starting to make me tear up, and the library people frown on crying on the computers.

Moving on to slightly-less-embarassing revelations...

I got word from the Darg Whores, who (if you didn't know) get to choose the speed round tonight after their historic third win in a row last week. So, yeah, blame them. I'm sure you will. While their choice was not as ridiculous as some things put forward by certain parties as possible winning selections (like, oh, say, "shoe designers") I'm sure there will be more than the usual share of groaning when the sheets go out this week.

Of course, if you people had tried a little harder the last three weeks we wouldn't have this problem, now, would we?

JLK