Nigel to Bug: "You aren't just a wee bit... curious?"

La la la. I went for a bike ride today. First time I've ridden my bike in... probably a year or two. Zoe and I rode about two miles all told. I'm gonna be feeling it tomorrow I'm sure, but it was nice.

And, now that I've proven that I have no life, I shall further elaborate the point by going on and on about tv shows.

Crossing Jordan

I watched "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" on A&E tonight. First episode with Woody... what a *dork* he was! I think it makes me appreciate season 4 Woody much more because I see how he started out. And the scene where the whole group is bonding at Jordan's housewarming party is just... *priceless*. I think I'm gonna have to watch it when it comes on again in an hour just to hear Bug hesitantly reading off the card... "Where is the naughtiest place you've ever had a shag?" Three cheers for Nigel and his back-up plans.
ETA: ... how did I fail to notice the first time through that Macy is wearing a vibrant purple shirt for the first 20 mins of the ep? *pets Macy*
And a bajillion points to Jordan for referring to Macy as her girlfriend. Twice.
Jordan: "Garrett, you just head-butted that guy!" Macy: "Yeah, I know. Come on!"
Macy: "Why would you want to have sex 6 times in one day? We're people, not bunnies!" Drunken!Lily: "Dr. Macy said bunnies!" ~all laugh muchly~
Nigel: "I *want* to hear you say it." Bug: "Alright... I'm curious."

Tonight I also watched "Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?"... I think I liked the episode... Of course, since I had absolutely no idea what was actually going on, it's hard to say for sure. I guess it might have made more sense if I'd seen more than a single episode out of all of season 2 and 3. But mad props to CJ for the fact that it had Michael T. Weiss. *sigh* I love the pretender, even when he's not being Jarod. ~Randomly distracted... how soon is Pretender season 2 coming out?~

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

In non-Crossing Jordan news, I got *way* confused today watching a re-run of SVU. It was "Ridicule" from season 3. Guest starring in it was Diane Neal... a.k.a. Casey Novak. Except it was a season and a half before she ever played Novak. I was totally confused until I looked it up. I was like "Casey, why aren't you being Casey? You are Casey, right? Am I going crazy?" She was playing a stock broker chick who was accused of raping a male stripper. Yeah. I don't know if I'll be able to see Novak in exactly the same way I did before. Does anyone else find it odd that they had someone guest star rather prominently in an episode and then brought them back to be a *different* *main* character? It was way mind-fuck-y to watch Cabot grilling what my mind kept insisting was Novak. o.O;

May 27th

Today is my mommy's birthday. She is, we have decided, rather than turning 54, simply turning 27 for the second time. This works out well at 27 is her favorite number. (what's not to like? it's 3 to the 3rd power!) Anyway, this reminded me of the other day when I was in the car with Helen, staring up at the stars, and Pink Floyd came on the radio. As I was listening to them singing "We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control." It, in turn, reminded me of a Goosebumps book I read... many moons ago, about a kid who got sent off to this special school that guaranteed to turn even the most troublesome kids into perfect angels. What actually happened was that they made robot copies of the kids to send home with the parents and the real kids got trapped in the walls of the building. What struck me most about the book was the fact that the parents were so happy to have a well-behaved child that they seemingly didn't notice or care that the child wasn't actually *their* child. The thing about the book that creeped me out the most was that parents like that actually *exist*. I know they do; I've *met* people like that. I just don't get why people that think that way *have* kids... I really don't get it. I can understand wanting your child to be the best person they can possibly be, but I don't understand wanting your child to be someone that they aren't. I don't see how that can possibly be a sign of love. Things like that just make me more glad than ever that I lucked out with the mom I got. She may not be the best person in the world, she may not be the best mother in the world (despite what all my friends think) but I have always been grateful for the fact that she loves her kids for themselves rather than any esoteric idea of how "good" they are. It amazes me the most, I think, because she never really wanted kids and ended up with *7*. I would expect her to resent us, considering she's been busy being a mother since she was 17, but I've never seen any sign that she does. She loves us all, equally, even when some of us (who shall remain nameless) act like incredible jerks. She's managed to work out a way to have a life, around her kids, without ever needing to neglect or ignore us. She may not always have been the most attentive parent but I'm willing to forgive her that one as she has a hell of a lot more excuse for it than most parents I know. She's busy, but *never* too busy to love her kids. Maybe sometimes I wish that she'd support me more actively or that she had pushed me harder when I was young, but I don't resent that because I've recognized the one fact that I think some people never realize about their parents. She's just a human being. She's not a miracle worker, she can't read minds, she just does the best she can. And as human beings go, she's a pretty damn good one. Most amazing of all is the fact that she's the kind of person that if I had just met her on the street, I would want to be her friend and be glad to have met her. You don't get to pick your family, but if you did, I'd still pick her. Anyway, even though she doesn't read this (most likely *because* she doesn't read this) Happy Birthday, Mom, I love you. ~Sorry to have sapped up everyone's f-list.~

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Monday - Tennessee Ren Fest
Tuesday - Driving to BG to pick up textbook for my summer course, take bag back to Laura, pick up puppy from Michael's... probably more errands that I'm forgetting
Wednesday - Summer course begins ~i should probably have some sort of emotion about this, but it doesn't seem worth it~ It's weird actually, I've never done any sort of school-type thing during the summer before. o.O;

Plans for the weekend? *shrug*

Right now, I'm watching The Fifth Element, and this pleases me greatly. I haven't seen it in a while. I've been wanting to watch it for several months but my household seems to have misplaced our copy of the dvd. I'm considering purchasing the ultimate edition dvd because I really love this movie. It also kinda makes me want to dye my hair orange again. Orange is a good color. Right now it's faded to a sort of strawberry blonde-ish tone. I was gonna go a nice normal brown as my next choice, but now I think I want to go orange for a bit longer. *cuddles hair dye*