"because my fabric is trash"

-by the woman who chose trash bags as her material for her first challenge.

...hilarious and ironic (or is it not so ironic) quote of the season premier of Project Runway.

As much as I complained when it was cold and snowing in DC... I can't stand this heat!

I'm feeling pretty jealous of those peope in the Netfilx commercial playing in the snow. It's times like these that I wish I had a swimming pool. But I'm on the verge of planning a "mini-vacation" to So.Cal later this month and I've decided I need to buy a new camera. I've had the same huge or, as I like to call it, "jalunky" camera since my freshman year in college (almost four years ago). It still works fine and everything, I just want a new sleek and stylish new digital camera. I'm trying not to go over 200-215... some of these cameras seem unnecessarily expensive. Anyone have a camera that they're extremely in love with that they'd like to suggest? The two I like the most right now are Fujifilm Finepix Z100 (8.1 mp) and Panasonic Lumix DMC (8.1 mp).

In my opinion, the only thing Fox is good for is MySpace, and even that scares me. Besides that horrible man that is Bill "I Get the Last Word" O'Reilly, Fox has the tendency to make the simplest of words or gestures sound terroristic or malicious. And they've got a lot to say about Barack Osama (oops I mean Obama). The latest thing, E.D. Hill actually tries to interpret a simple "fist bump" between Barack and Michelle as a "terrorist fist bump". Oh brother. I really hope there isn't some uninformed American out there that's falling for this stuff. (But sadly I know there are at least a couple).

source: Gawker found courtesy of Addictomatic (my new favorite search engine)

So I wasn't one of the lucky ones who got to see SATC before it opened. But I saw it- all that counts.  The only thing that would have made the movie better?  Getting there earlier so I wouldn't have ended up with the crappy front row seats that I had :(  Which made me wonder... why do they have seats that close to the screen anyway?  I had the worst neck cramp after that! 

All in all I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.  The fashion, music (except for that horrible rendition of auld  lang syne that just wouldn't end), and Jennifer Hudson (!) was all great.  Now once I can force myself to let go of 200 big ones I'll finally by my own  boxed DVD set of the series.

Graduation is upon me (in about 3 weeks) and I have no idea what I'm going to wear.  I know it's going to be a dress... that's about it.  Oh, woe is me.

So for a second I forgot that April 1st meant April Fools... after a while you get older and the pranks are no longer there. Checking GMail today I noticed a nice read link (and who doesn't love new GMail features?) "New GMail Custom Time". Allow me to set the date and time that will appear in my recipient's inbox, you say? Oh yes! I thought of all the times I could have used this... parents, professors, and whatnot. Then I remembered that Google is well-known for their yearly April Fools pranks. Thanks, guys.... you actually had me going this time (Until I saw the "testimonials" lol).

But think of all the possibilities there would be if you could actually set a date for the e-mails you send... "Never Late Again"

Be sure to check out Google's other pranks this year... like "Project Virgle"  I can't wait to see the responses for that one!

How could I not post something after the new season premiere? Wait... is this even really a new season? Anywho... I just want to know- is it wrong for me to still love The Hills after realizing how incredibly scripted it is? I mean, really, LC isn't stupid- wear your ball gown the night before (and at a club!)??? Of course I expected the escort next to her to spill his drink on her or something.

And poor Whitney "Perhaps you should pursue that, Whitney"... an "ooooh" inducing moment from Kimball. Heidi and Spencer... MTV producers have pretty much beaten that horse. Their story is boring now.

Came upon this video the other day and I just loved it!  I've never been a huge Alice fan but lately I'm having the urge to go out and buy Through the Looking Glass/Alice's Adventure in Wonderland and the movie. 

And.... very exciting- 2009 will bring a live-action version of the movie directed by Tim Burton.  Sounds like it should be great (Hello... BeetleJuice, Nightmare Before Christmas...).  And I read in last month's Vanity that Lindsay wants to play Alice, I'm not quite sold on that.   One of my favorite animated movies, Kiki's Delivery Service, is being remade in 2009 as well!  It's just about the only anime movie I've ever liked.

For all my fellow students with an .edu e-mail addy, Microsoft is offering a great deal that'll make any student's wallet happy.  According to the website you'll "save approximately 91%".  $59.95 to download Microsoft Office 2007.... boy, if I don't sound like a walking billboard. 

I was a little upset, however... I shelled out an extra $12.95 on a "back-up DVD" when I saw (after the purchase, of course) that it says I could just save the download link onto an external drive or DVD of my own.  For cheap old me... I'm pretty pissed about that.   But just a heads-up, and if you do require an official Microsoft DVD, they do allow you to purchase it later.  But the deal expires Apr 30th.  The website... theultimatesteal.com.

So maybe one or two weeks ago I was browsing through Google Reader and found a couple of blogs speaking of a new man in Paris' life. One picture of Paris and a guy with long hair dressed in orange and it's determined (for us) that she's changed religion, she has a new spiritual advisor, a "guru", a "shaman", whatever. At first I thought the photos looked doctored because it's completely random... Paris riding around LA with a yogi in the front seat of her Range Rover. But I guess it wasn't too crazy for the press.

Now, this morning, I'm seeing what it was all about. There's some show on E! called Pop Fiction where "celebrities" to play pranks on the media and paparazzi. But it had me thinking- the news and tabloids can pretty much say anything and more often than not there's a big handful of people ready to believe it. Kinda crazy. But I think this show is hilarious.

I wonder how many people were fired after this show aired.

I never really bought into tabloids too much, but this reminds me even more that I should take these stories with a grain of salt (or half a grain).