I was quite surprised by (and essentially against) the ultra-hip John Mayer singing on his new album about wanting a home life, but over the course of the day I realized what seemed like a yearning for one myself. I think I wish I could snap my fingers and be magically settled down with someone... Blah.

I went out to see two movies tonight! George Clooney's performance in Intolerable Cruelty makes me want to act. Kill Bill: Volume 1 was rumoured to be violent/gory, and it was, but instead of gratuitous, I found it beautiful and refreshingly honest. Inspired by the violence depicted in Kill Bill, our dinner discussion focused on the moral obligations (or lack thereof) of filmmakers. During the debate, we naturally wandered onto the related topic of why movies should be made at all... How can anyone decide to produce frivolous entertainment when he could apply his energy to combating any number of the world's problems? We never really phrased it that directly, and so we didn't really try to answer that exact question. I'm also not prepared to answer it here, so let us concede that most of us do things that do not combat the problems of the world; moviemakers are not special in that respect.

My apologies go out to all those who have been viewing this site via anything other than Internet Explorer on a PC, as I discovered today that you probably are not seeing the site as the author (I) designed it.

I know that a strong handshake is supposed to be a positive thing, but when twiggy twerps smaller than me grasp my hand as if I'm saving them from great peril just by shaking theirs, I wanna whack them upside the head. What are you trying to prove!?! That you have a grip more solid than Robocop's? I'm actually starting to worry... Are androids among us... shaking our hands in a feigned gesture of friendship so that they can gain our trust, only to later annihilate us in our human sleep? We can't be too careful. The next time someone shakes your hand a little more tightly than you'd expect from a person of their build, assume that their build is android, and do everything in your power to deactivate their ass! And the good news is, even if you mistakenly identify someone as an android, you win, as you taught a human that their "hearty" handshake is not only NOT impressive, but wholly annoying... and confusing to android hunters.

Blutopia, the latest seasonal Jamba Juice offering is AMAZING! If you love blueberries and your past attempts to suck frozen ones trough a straw have proven fruitless , you will LOVE this smoothie!

At around 9:00PM tonight I received a call from Christina (my housemate), and she was a bit concerned because it appeared as if someone had entered the house through one of her bedroom windows. Mysteriously, nothing but her blinds had been disturbed, let alone taken, including the laptop on her desk! So, why would anyone break into a house and not take anything of value? I hastened my return home to begin the investigation. After about an hour of observing, interviewing, testing, conjecture, and a phone call, we received confirmation that our landlady's son had forgotten his key and so climbed in through the window to retrieve his piano books. That is why someone would break into a house and not take anything of value.

I awoke this morning with the memory of a dream that was an amalgam of things from yesterday. I had dreamt of a kung-fu baseball movie. Now, I don't know if any kung-fu baseball movies actually exist, nor if they should, but I do now have the perfect name for one: "Strike Out." It's a great title, as it has all the bases covered! OH! I'm hilarious!

Roar! I finally got a chance to try to hook up the router to my landlord's DSL modem so I could finally have Internet access at home, and the one thing that could go wrong did: It simply didn't work! Now I gotta wait a whole week more to try again when she returns. Grrr!

"Yes, that is 'floor one,'" I thought with disdain as I pointed down to the first floor of Meyer Library in response to the guy questioning its number. We don't have 0th or "ground" floors here in the US because it's ONLY NATURAL to start counting with ONE. Silly foreign countries. *shakes head*

Blueberries are the new Jamba Juice seasonal fruit, and apparently the "King of Fruit," packing more antioxidants per ounce than any other fruit. Reminds me that I love adding blueberries to my cereal! Hmmm!

I had recently seen around campus this guy who had bleached the tips of his hair very light - pretty much as white as you can expect to bleach hair - and he ends up behind me at the post office today, so I seized the opportunity to ask him how he accomplished it. Unfortunately, he had it done at a salon, but it left me wanting to bleach and/or color my hair again... tho I'm not yet sure exactly what I want to do this time. *thinking*...

My task at ResComp today was to visit the residence computer clusters around campus to take photographs of each one. I felt like Uncle Traveling Matt (Yay, Fraggles! ), and as dinner drew nearer, I smelled some wonderful smells, which reminded me that I gotta buy some fresh fruit and tater tots!