Ten Favorite Time Wasters

Posted by on May 27, 2008 in dish | 1 comment As an Olympic-caliber time waster, I can certainly do this. Here are favorite ways to let the time pass me by.Infosnacking. Netsurfing. Whatever you call it. If it’s on the web, I can find it.Bookstore browsing. Time just flies by.Palm games. Crazy Daisy and Bejeweled, usually, with occasional forays into Bookworm.Reading organizational books. So much more satisfying than actual...
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Musings: Shirley Valentine

Posted by on May 26, 2008 in dish | 0 comments I can’t remember which female friend advised–nay, DEMANDED–that I watch Shirley Valentine, but apparently it made enough of an impression that I at least added it to the Netflix queue. Shirley arrived this week, and since we’re off from school today, I popped it in.Well, anonymous friend was right. This was a treat. The film is based on a play of the same name by Willy...
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Gutsy Broad: Tina Fey

Posted by on May 23, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Well, she’s technically not a broad yet, but she’s no chick. What she is is incredibly clever and smart. Geeky, even. (Work those glasses, girl!) This is the brain behind SNL’s revived Weekend Update, the Emmy-winning 30 Rock, and Mean Girls. She’s beautiful but not obnoxious about it, and she seems to be having a ball. We should all have it so good.
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Ten Movies You’re Excited to See

Posted by on May 20, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Summer blockbuster season is upon us! Here are my top ten choices–one’s I’d be willing to spend full price to see…although given the fact that teachers don’t get paid between June and early September, I’ll be spending plenty of time at the dollar movie theater instead…Iron Man. Saw it already. Worth the ticket. A must-buy on DVD when it comes out. This...
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on May 16, 2008 in dish | 0 comments I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I got inspired (you’ll see why). Click on the “Men” link at the end of the post to see previous choices.BED LIST: ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.He always played the sleaze or the troubled bad boy (not that it was a stretch) in all those 80s movies. But Robert Downey, Jr. has grown up in the “damn, he got hot!” mode previously...
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End of the Dawn Patrol

Posted by on May 14, 2008 in dish | 3 comments Last night, our local school board–in a cost-saving measure–voted to switch the school start times for middle and high schools. So instead of reporting at 7:10 am, we high school folks will now start at 9:30. This also means that Mr. Tuba, my soon-to-be middle schooler, will be waiting for a bus to deliver him to school at 7:30. Yep, in the dark part of the year.I don’t know...
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