June 2007 Archives

How pathetic am I?

I dreamed last night that my desk was clean and neat and orderly.

This is what it really looks like:

I was trying to have pleasant dreams about Richard Armitage, and this is what I get instead.

*sigh*

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I’m confused about something. Maybe someone can ’splain me this.

See, I’m browsing through the inspirational brochure of the new Creation Museum in Kentucky. (Link goes to a PDF. I hereby offer up this warning to all those sinning webmasters who do not alert their readers to such slow-downloading, new-app-launching, linking perfidy.) And I am finding myself quite moved by suchness as:

Walk through the Garden of Eden. Introduce yourself to our chameleons. Examine bones, the clutch of eggs from a dinosaur, an exceptional fossil collection, and a mineral collection. Enter the Cave of Sorrows and see the horrific effects of the Fall of man.

Already I feel closer to the all-embracing warmth of religious faith. Who doesn’t long to visit the Cave of Sorrows?

But then there’s this:

And today in world news:

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany (CNN) -- Leaders from the world's eight major industrialized nations "accepted the latest scientific evidence" of the dangers of global warming Thursday...

Well, halle-fuckin’-lujah. Next up on the global agenda: accepting the latest scientific evidence on gravity. But don’t get too excited:

Speaking of Harry Potter...

Apparently the fictional exploits of the boy wizard are good for flushing delusional morons out of our educational systems:

How big a dork am I? I was planning a trip with a friend, artist and writer Bonnie-Ann Black, to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia to see the way-cool King Tut exhibit. We’d settled on a day trip on Saturday, July 21st... but something was nagging me about that date... something I had to do...

Harry Potter! That’s the day Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows will be released! (You’ve preordered your copy, haven’t you?) And I’m committed to doing nothing else that weekend but reading that book. (So we switched Tut to the next weekend.)

My brother Ray’s toy poodle Rosie, with a slice of pizza that’s almost as big as she is:

And another:

When a dictator tries to shut down the voice of the people, the people take the voice online:

These earrings sold out before I could get me a pair...

(Technorati tags: girl geeks, geek earrings)