February 2010
60 posts
what is wrong with Quentin T lately?
I appreciate all that Taylor Swift has already achieved, especially since she writes her own stuff…but she is AWFUL to listen to live. dear Taylor, it doesn’t count as harmonizing with Stevie Nicks if you don’t hit the right notes. argh, you are flat way too often!!
January 2010
41 posts
Watchtvchick:
The next installment in everyone’s favorite self-help video series: Grady Wilson’s Fifty & Freaky!
“I’m just a crab walking on the beach… ACHOO!”
I saw this and look forward to reenacting them with you. Perhaps we could do a quarterly performance during the Super Bowl…
Explosive Device Set Off on Virginia Train Tracks,... →
dewster:
They’ve evacuated one of the JMU dorms to look for explosives.
Harrisonburg police have confirmed that a “small explosion” occurred on or near the railroad tracks near Cantrell Avenue this morning. —this is not far from the old HS baseball stadium, it is a stop/loading area. There’s a LOT of graffiti and sketchiness in that area (used to walk/run home on...
Remains thought to be those of missing Virginia... →
This is the girl whose story has been in the VA news since her disappearance during/after a Metallica concert in Charlottesville.
Police say they are confident that skeletal remains found yesterday in an Albemarle County hayfield are those of missing Virginia Tech student Morgan D. Harrington. David H. Bass, owner of Anchorage Farm, found the remains as he inspected a fence line from his tractor...
January 26 notables...
birth of: Ellen DeGeneres, Gene Siskel, Andrew Ridgeley (“the other guy” from Wham), Lucinda Williams (who frankly I just. don’t. get.), Maria von Trapp, Eddie Van Halen, Justin Gimelstob (tennis), Bob Uecker (juuuuust a bit outside)…
…and Wayne Gretzky!
tax q's?
feel free to email me at taxhelp48@yahoo.com. yes, for reals…be as specific or generic as you like and I will try to offer my opinion (for free).
an experiment, we’ll see what happens.
PS I can also help with filing non-profit Form 990 as well as clergy taxes.
Making Work Pay tax credit--available to EVERYONE
by available to everyone, I mean that it appears on all forms of the 1040 this year in the Credits section—you do not need to itemize your deductions in order to claim it. However, there are income limitations.
Last year, Mr. Obama decided to give (up to) $400 to single filers and (up to) $800 to joint filers. Thanks Mister!
Please follow instructions, and note that the credit appears on...
IRS: Ten Facts About Claiming Donations Made to...
If you are donating to charities providing earthquake relief in Haiti, you may be able to claim those donations on your 2009 tax return. Here are 10 important facts the Internal Revenue Service wants you to know about this special provision.
A new law allows you to claim donations for Haitian relief on your 2009 tax return, which you will be filing this year.
The contributions must be made...
Ode to an ill coworker.
she coughs for a week. her lungs are Papillon, yearning to escape their skeletal prison. empathy builds for her: a sand castle only to wash away in her rising waves of self-pity. I am a wounded child, frustrated and angry at the hypochondriac sea.
go the F home.
fin.
I *may* be a vampire.
I was feeling lousy Friday afternoon, so I bought a thermometer for the first time in my (adult) life. I’m not sure why I just typed (adult)…it’s not like I bought my own thermometer when I was 8. If I did, it would have been one of the mercury ones, and I would have broken it on purpose to see the mercury dance, then I would have touched it, absorbed it, and died.
…I...
uh yup, that's Beck.
“…and all I ask is one thing, and this is particularly of young people that...”
– Conan, last Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, 1/22/10.
and this bird you cannot change.
how to spend money this spring...
new TV, or going to spring training (FL, not AZ) that I’ve been wanting to go to for years…?
baseball fans only please, or those that understand this is not an easy choice.
Memories... (like in that musical about cats!)
sharingtime:
Last night as I was watching Conan’s penultimate Tonight show, it dawned on me that I attended Late Night’s fifth anniversary show in New York. This was probably in 1998 or 1999.
I don’t remember much about the show other than that Triumph made an appearance, Adam Sandler ran through the audience and the clips they showed from the first five years were as funny as anything I’d ever...
my suite smells like liverwurst.
I’m on this side of the office with 4 others. I don’t know where these smells are coming from, but this morning I walked in to the lovely smell of sulphur. am I having a stroke?
why can’t it smell like chocolate like my town growing up? I forgot the perks of living a few miles from Hershey.
I dreamed I was making out with Ed Helms.
I think he sang to me first? I never thought of him in that way until I was rudely INTERRUPTED by the morning.
so, who gets the first interview with Conan?
I’ll put my money on Dave. thoughts? could be:
- Dave - Jimmy K - Triumph - Seacrest - Jimmy F - Barbara Walters and/or The View - Noches de Pasion con Señor O’Brien
NBC: Conan O'Brien reaches $45M exit deal →
I figured this would be the last week for the show when Masturbating Bear made his appearance last night…
title is misleading, it seems that Conan will receive ~33M and the rest goes to staff. Also: “In the end, Conan was appreciative of the steps NBC made to take care of his staff and crew, and decided to supplement the severance they were getting out of his own pocket.”
2010 JMU Football Schedule
The Dukes begin their season by hosting Morehead, then traveling to a loss at Tech (I’m just hoping for a good showing), hosting Liberty, then 8 conference (CAA) games to close out the 11-game season.
Note- Hofstra and Northeastern both discontinued their football programs, leaving 10 teams in the CAA. Each CAA team will play 8 of their 9 CAA opponents.
Sept. 4 - Morehead State Sept. 11 -...
An Op-Ed Conan wrote for the NY Times in 1993 →
sharingtime:
After reading this, I’m sure glad they’re taking him off TV. Clearly he has no talent, unless making people laugh can be considered a talent.
made me giggle entirely too much- this is what happens when you picture all of it.
relationship with the medical field, take 2.
age 8: visited Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon, PA with Brownie troop. Remember thinking that that must be what the “GSH” stood for on Chicago Bears’ sleeves. watched Jolein Weller get hooked up to scary machines with tentacles stuck to her. almost fainted but could see the floor tile through the one pinhole of sight left. will remember that cool tile with its ugly colors for the rest of...
let's hear it for sciatica.
because I have it. I’ve been in pain for 2 weeks now (looking back, possibly 2-3 months), finally went to the doctor yesterday to be officially diagnosed. I didn’t tell him that the internets and webs told me it was sciatica already. he also said that my spine seemed out of place, so he proceeded to push as hard as he could on each part- nothing was painful which seemed to surprise...
relationship with the medical field, take 1.
age 5: minor annoyance at receiving shots. unfounded deathly fear of Dr. Spotts—his name made it seem like he was some sort of dinosaur or monster.
age 15: learned that Dr. Spotts was a different guy than I thought, so for 10 years I was scared of the wrong doc.
EDIT…IT JUST OCCURRED TO ME…that my mom probably didn’t know that I had a mixup between Dr. Spotts and another...
check!
getting dressed this AM:
top - check! tights - check! boots for the walk - check! shoes to change into at office - check! scarf wrapped around head twice - check! winter coat - check!
skirt - … skirt - ??? go back inside and put on your skirt, you idiot. why can’t you dress yourself?!
end of day chat.
every day as Judy is leaving, she opens the door and says “GO HOME! I’m locking you in!” and every day I say “I know, okay…” some days, Judy will venture in further to say something interesting, and it turns into a hodge-podge of topics.
today’s chat included: disco balls (I told her I was having a dance club over here by myself), Johnny Cash, Bob...
Sweet Home Alabama came on the radio.
Lynyrd Skynyrd told me to turn it up.
So I did.
I hope Neil Young will remember.
dewster:
One of the best things ever is throwing a bunch of food in a crock pot in the morning and then forgetting all about it until you walk in the door after work and smell that dinner is already made.
Santa/Mom gave me a crockpot this year! Of course I haven’t gotten my act together to use it yet…but still I imagine the smells.
my lunch today: Lunchables and Jello pudding cup.
yup, the 8-year-old boy that lives inside me (Reginald!) is alive and kicking. and overly excited about the pudding cup.
perhaps I should remind myself that I’m a grown woman. the horror!
you are confusinng and. amusing. gay guy is lookimg at my boobs
hippy hoppy happy new year!! i edited this 3 times.