... Who's Roger?!

"welcome back to the game."

also, and more importantly: the cave, who's on first, integrals, arcade fire/bjork/crowded house, tiny bubbles, c&o, the ugliest sofa in the world, popped collars, hello mr. presumptuous, martin luther, photo booth...

someone owes me some quiche, too.

(if this reads like gibberish, it's because the whole damn thing doesn't make any sense. and yet... so good!)

Acronym Of The Summer

posslq -- persons [of] opposite sex sharing living quarters

my posslq (pronounced poss-el-queue) is cute, sweet, intelligent, funny, a good listener, a total nerd/geek, and a snazzy dresser... and an ice cream fan just like me.

remind me again: why am i leaving virginia in a week?

CityLurve: Philadelphia

if i hear one more person tell me that philadelphia is a shithole/the ghetto/crime-ridden and depressed/not as good as new york, i will give them the look of death. or bust out my talons and rip right into them, depending on how annoying i found them before they went and opened their pie-hole.

i haven't spent much time in the city, admittedly, and the statistics do give reason for worry, and septa is about as inspiring in the field of public transportation as king kong is in the field of microsurgery, but the unmitigated hating? that just needs to stop already! because you know what? i like the skyline, i like the grid-like layout (boston, you have a lot to learn, buddy), i like 30th street station, i like the little squares with archaic names (fitler? rittenhouse?), i like the ubiquitous homage to ben franklin, i like the south st. creperie i was taken to on my first "real" day in the city (and the atmosphere of south st. in general), i like the view from penns landing, i like the street signs with rainbows on them, i like the architecture and the robert indiana sculpture in/near jfk plaza, and i like the painted little victorian houses in university city. so shush.

in this vein, the aarp magazine (which i was reading over lunch at work today because it had an ancient-looking kevin costner on the cover and i just had to find out what would inspire them to put his wrinkled fake-tanned goatee-wielding shaved-chested self in such a position of glory) is just beyond impolite.

you see, the magazine's july/august 2007 issue boasts an article on "50 things to know at 50" or some such (i guess you could call this advance reading... or something to make the tasteless food go down easier); #42 is "how to stay married". the advice for the more poetic among us is to "pretend your relationship (marriage) is a road trip. your wedding was the holland tunnel. your life is the new jersey turnpike. death is philadelpia. pretend there are no exits, only rest stops."

umm, hello? not only is that the most depressing vision of marriage i've ever heard (and i do consider myself at this stage an anti-marriage cynic), but also, how about we make death, like, idaho or somewhere else instead of the city in which i'm going to spend the next semi-decade? hmph!

Withdrawal

i will unashamedly admit to a recently-developed grey's anatomy addiction; for days on end, i'd get home from work, race through dinner, and sit down in front of the idiot box with a spoon, a tub of ben and jerry's, and a goofy grin on my face. laugh, all you disbelievers, laugh away. you're missing out on the good stuff. short story is that i was intimately involved with the cast of grey's... not only because they're fun, but also because they're more screwed up than your average fictional television characters, and that's a good thing, even if their scenarios and behaviour are beyond believable. [ain't nothing wrong with my occasional incredulous outbursts at said fictional characters, either, and don't you tell me there is!]

serious complications have arisen in the last few hours, however: i just spent this afternoon watching the ridiculously awesome season 2 finale (that apparently 22 million people watched when it first aired... where on earth was i?! being a tv snob, i bet!)

so what the hell am i going to do with my time and mental energy now?! season 3 is only out on dvd in early september! that's months away! i think i need to pay a visit to akhila's dvd guy when i get back to bombay, and see if something can't be done about advance viewings before season 4 goes on the air....

psst: on the eternal question of mcsteamy or mcdreamy, i say mcvet, all the way! chris o'donnell may not be matt damon, but finn is definitely cute, and smart, and sensitive, and committed, and a far better deal than smug, arrogant, irresistible but dangerous derek (patrick dempsey), with the beguilingly kind blue eyes and the somehow-hot russell crowe hairstyle and the inability to decide once and for all between his lovely redhead wife and the needy blonde intern waif who shares his dog. (what does this say about my choice in men in real life, i wonder? but then, who needs men when you have grey's?)