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Attention! It's hot. As hell. I need a summer home someplace chilly. Or at least not hot as hell.

I also need my back to not hurt.

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   Why do you not stop me from watching The Family Stone whenever I catch it on TV? Why? I can't even explain why I love this movie, since my biggest frustration with it is that there isn't enough, so parts of it feel choppy... but love it, I do. Maybe it's that every review I saw panned it and so I had no expectations left when I did catch it Christmas morning. Or maybe it's that I'm a sucker for a big family movie, even if I know I'd totally be the interloper no one really liked and when I called for reinforcements, they'd immediately be accepted and loved and it would drive me batshit crazy.

   In other news, Hurricane Season began today, although apparently it already began with a storm but that hit Mexico or something and I don't watch the news half the time, nor do I really pay attention when I do, because it turns into the "people died today, lookit the cute puppy, we're all going to hell, sports highlights, your super wrong weather forecast, death, doom, destruction, puppy! weather! wah wah wah" parade in my head. So, where was I? Hurricanes. Big thing in the paper about how people aren't paying any attention to the "You're all gonna die, suckers!" predictions they do every season.

  Well no shit, Sherlock. With very few exceptions, each year they tell us the same thing and they're wrong, wrong, wrong. I'm not sure that many people ignore them when a storm is actually approaching, but at the start of the season when we're told "expect fifteen storms, with three actually achieving RUN FOR YOUR LIFE status, two of those to make landfall" everyone knows that's just the sound of the weather channel/guys blathering on because this is the one time of year anyone gives half a damn about them. So, you ignore at the start of the season, you perk up a little when a storm forms, and then you wait for it to hit the islands. From there you decide whether to stock up on water and batteries, or throw yourself a nifty hurricane party and say to hell with this, it's gonna hit Florida or NC and leave the rest of us alone.

  Dunno what you guys on the West Coast do, but that's how the season is played on this side of the country.

  Or, at least, how I play it.

 I suspect for people in the gulf o' mexico area, the game is played a little differently, because it can hit Florida and still kick your ass, whereas for me, it has to hit Florida just right to ping off and retain strength. Otherwise it's just a rainy day by the time it floats this way.

  For whatever reason, I was on the MTV Movie awards pre-show and they did the clip from Twilight. Awesome, right? How the fuck should I know? Between the bright pink crap in both corners and the fact that either my TV is set to way too dark, or the clip was too dark, I couldn't see a damn thing other than the vampires moving in what I'm sure was supposed to be super cool fast-forward, but what really just looked lame.

Now, for the start of the season birthday bitching. This year I'll attempt to keep it relatively low key in the complaint department, but I make no promises. Cass is leaving just in time for my birthday and... no one else ever manages to actually remember the date, and she only did because I ripped her a new one a few years ago, and even that didn't exactly sink through all the way.

But you cannot expect other people to build their schedules around one day of the year.

Is what I tell myself while secretly thinking, "Well, guess that fucks your birthday up, huh?"

So. I put in for my vacation and I might get it, depending on how much the universe likes me. But at this point it looks like vacation will just be code for stay home and do nada.

If I weren't bored out of my skull already, that might be awesome.

*makes strangling motions* People who are going to be apart during the week, but with the promise of at least the occasional visit should not bitch about seperation to someone who doesn't see the person they're with except for the occasional visit. It's rude!

It's also a really good way to get your ass handed to you. It's like me saying, "huh, my arm kinda tingles" to someone who broke their damn arm, or my father with the arthritis and the new meds that make it impossible to take most pain meds. Inconsiderate. Rude. Uncool! So SHUT UP ABOUT IT.

That was to me and to little miss I'm leaving for the month of July.

so many parts of me hurt... *dies*