totally related, totally boring

Several years ago, I got my little brother a shitload of shampoos and body washes for his birthday. It was not a joke. He was thrilled. It was a few months after he had requested (and received) a shampoo shower dispenser for Hannukah.

Today, I got this email from my other brother, He Who Can Finally Stop Using His Fake ID Tomorrow:

For my birthday...

I want the ultimate toaster. Yes, the same toaster that Oprah and the Queen of England uses. I want the Dualit 3 Slice in charcoal or chrome. It's the 3 Slice, NOT the Dualit Lite.

Below are some links where you can find them for a great price :)

1)http://cgi.ebay.com/DUALIT-3-SLICE-TOASTER-CHARCOAL-NEW-IN-OPEN-BOX_W0QQitemZ110116279731QQihZ001QQcategoryZ20682QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

2) http://cgi.ebay.com/WILLIAMS-SONOMA-DUALIT-3-SLICE-TOASTER-W-CAGE_W0QQitemZ110117683146QQihZ001QQcategoryZ20682QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
(I think this one is refurbished. As long as it has no crumbs in it, it should be fine, right?)

3) http://cgi.ebay.com/Dualit-3-Slice-Classic-Charcoal-110v_W0QQitemZ150062496007QQihZ005QQcategoryZ20682QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

4) http://cgi.ebay.com/WILLIAMS-SONOMA-DUALIT-4-SLICE-TOASTER-CHROME_W0QQitemZ110117681958QQihZ001QQcategoryZ20682QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
(4 slice is ok as well)

5) http://cgi.ebay.com/DUALIT-3-SLICE-TOASTER-CHARCOAL-2-1-COMBI-NEW-IN-BOX_W0QQitemZ110116248061QQihZ001QQcategoryZ20682QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
(Look! Here's a brand new one!)

You guys get the point. I'm sure you can find them elsewhere on the Internet but eBay might be your best bet!

I know I'm not much to talk, because I asked for underwear on Hannukah and new sheets for my birthday.

my thesis is due in two weeks

I left for Target with the intention of buying oil pastels, but I returned forty-five minutes later having purchased one million tampons, a pair of black heels, and three puzzles. It took so long because I was busy drooling over post-its and dry-erase markers.

It's a wonder to me too how anything ever gets done around here.

in the saddle

Walk of Shame at seven thirty this morning wearing last night's "Gangsta" party outfit is the best thing I've done for myself since I bought my new car.

pollo is as pollo does

I'm currently on a phone survey about fast food, and the person on the other end is a complete idiot. He keeps talking about El Pollo Loco, but he says, "El Polo Loco," like he's never heard the commercials or has never been exposed to the Spanish language before.

And it's not like he said it once or twice. It was mentioned in every other query. Actually, it seems as though the survey could have been sponsored by the chain itself; there were at least fifteen questions about its quality and appeal.

TigerMouse

I GOT THE CUTEST MOUSE EVER!!!



(Mine is actually not zebra print, it's Tiger, but Logitech didn't have a picture of tiger, so just imagine that all the white spots are silver metallic and the black stripes are more claw-like.)


Also, today, one of my students got stuck in her chair. She had slid down so far that she was lying on the seat bottom, and when I called her on it, she pushed the top half of her body back, under the seat backing. So her head and shoulders were hanging out of the back of the chair, and her legs were hanging out of the front of the chair. The students all started laughing at her and yelling. I took a picture.

spring(ish)

Even though Google has been reporting all day long that Los Angeles was under a thunder and lighting storm siege, it has been rather sunny and beautiful outside. Granted, I've been in the apartment all day and so I can't say for CERTAIN that it's not raining outside, but I'm pretty sure.

Which is to say, THANK GOD it is almost summertime.

If you would have asked me about April back on September 5, I would have said something like, "oh, yeah, the fourth month, Pesach, yeah, it'll be here soon, it'll be fun." But then if you asked me the same question on September 6, I would have amended that last part, the part about the fun. And if you asked me anytime between October 29 and . . . March, I would have said, "April will never come, I swear, this is the loooooongest fucking year ever."

Needless to say the sun and warm(ish) weather are very welcome around here.

new york, pt 2

Some things I forgot to mention in my original New York post:

• Rachel's culinary masterpiece BRISKET, made from scratch, a complete labor of love, a total main course for our first night seder, and apparently "pretty good tasting." I mention the brisket because it was a brought up in conversation at least six times each day I was in town. And also because Rachel doesn't cook (see final entry on this list), so it was a Big Deal.
  
• I suffered an ocular migraine headache while watching Prime, and lest you think it was derived from the movie, think again. (It's a great movie with some great awkwardness.) I haven't had a migraine since middle school. All of a sudden, with no warning, your sight kind of goes. If you're lucky, this is followed by a splitting headache. I developed a blind spot between four and five o'clock and it took me several minutes to realize it was in my brain, and not caused by a light reflecting off the TV. I took some meds and wore my airplane eyepatch for an hour or so, and it went away. But it was really creepy.
• The contents of Rachel and AJ's freezer: a single bottle of vodka.