I’m a little late on the news…but thank goodness for this!

“Saturday Night Live veteran Jimmy Fallon will take Conan O’Brien’s place on NBC next year when O’Brien succeeds Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, a person familiar with the deal said late last week. Leno is said to be privately unhappy about his planned departure, and rival networks are quietly, unofficially courting him with offers to come work for them once his NBC contract is up.”

My boy Conan will finally be at a time slot where I might actually get to watch him. And finally, the world will be free of the not so funny Leno.
good times ahead!

I’m old.

i don’t understand…

people that make out in public places. I go to a lot of concerts and every show I attend, I have to be subjected to major suck face-age. Just Stop! I know its exciting to be pushed up against your significant other in a dark room while music you are totally into is filling up your senses, but oi! people! THERE ARE OTHERS AROUND YOU!

I would’ve given anything to have seen this…

Federer beats Sampras in match

On Fridays, it feels extra good to laugh…

“Hate your job? There’s a support group for that. It’s called everybody and they meet at a bar.”
Drew Carey

 ”I went to the 30th reunion of my preschool. I didn’t want to go, because I’ve put on like a hundred pounds.”
Wendy Liebman

“My mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, ‘Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.”
Paula Poundstone

“A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. ‘You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?’ she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, ‘I didn’t know there were any witnesses. Now I’ll have to kill you too.”
Jake Johansen

“Relationships are hard. It’s like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks’ notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp.”
Bob Ettinger

do you really need to be next to me to pee?

So I definitely am the queen of pet peeves.  So many things people do or behave like drive me to the point of insanity.  Some people call me hypersensitive.  I like to say that I have a heightened awareness of the people around me in order to make the world a better and more comfortable place to live in. 

But not everyone has such an acute awareness.

Like this morning, for example, when I used the restroom.  Now, this particular restroom has several stalls.  At least six.  All empty. do you see where I am going with this?  So I go into one of them, the very last one. why is it that the next person to walk in has to occupy the one right next to me? SERIOUS?  its like when I am at the gym and there is a whole entire ROW of empty treadmills. So i pick the one in the dead center.  What happens? a person plops their stuff on the machine next to me.  Or when on the bus and there are several free seats, and one of them sits next to me.  Then you just know you are in for an interesting ride.  And it always takes every ounce of self control not to give the invader of my personal bubble a dirty look. 

I mean, I know I am extremely attractive person…but COME ON people…gimme some space.

hate mail.

I hate the fact that I was the one to hand over the envelope. 

“Jim, I found this in the outgoing mail slot, but it has your mail stop number….did you forget to address it?”

“no, i didn’t send anything out…” Bewildered, he takes the envelope and proceeds to open it while I continue to sort other mail.  Out comes a page from a newspaper written all over with red marker.  It says DIE on it with a swastika.  The newspaper has a picture of soldiers, the bastard that sent it drew crosses over the soldiers’ faces.  Jim just returned from a two-year tour in Iraq. In the short time I have known him, I have come to learn that he has a warmer heart than most other people I have known. We both look at it in stunned silence, then he quietly folds it and walks back to his office.

I have never been so close to that kind of extreme hatred.  And I didn’t know what to do except say sorry for the disgusting coward that sent it.

seriously.

la zanahoria

I’ve always wanted to learn spanish. Being extremely proud of my 50% Hispanic-ness, I think its darn time I started. Having such limited time now to take an actual class, I went the obvious route:

Spanish Word-A-Day!

Every morning I open my email and there it is, my special Spanish word to learn, complete with a picture and an audio sample.  I haven’t quite figured out why they include a picture and the picture never has anything to do with the word… like today the word was la zanahoria (carrot) and there was a picture of an open field.  HMMM… Along with “la zanahoria”, I have learned “adentro” (interior) and “bastante” (quite or fairly).

 I figure I should be fluent in about 25 years.

oh wow.

One of my little baby college students that I supervised last year is engaged. 

when she told me, my instant, natural reaction was pure shock/disgust and a strained, “seriously??!!”

 whoops.

i think that was the wrong reaction.