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i've caught a flu type thing and need to get some rest. thankfully, it doesn't feel like it will take more than a day or two to recuperate so i should be back before the weekend is over with new fugitives.

sorry for the delay!

i thought i'd managed to get through the whole summer without a freakin' cold. looks like i was wrong.

this doesn't feel like it's going to take too long to recuperate from so i'll more than likely be back by monday possibly with a picture of my new glasses. hooray!

david lean on a go lean box.

if i've never mentioned it, my favorite david lean movie is "lawrence of arabia". partially because of the beautiful, sweeping cinematography but also because peter o'toole was such a fox in it. (preeee-ow!!)

tyra banks on an aussies' marionberry pie.

(a joke for leff: marionberry? wasn't he the mayor of d.c.? why does he have a pie? (ah, east coast jokes...))

oh, ty ty! how do i love thee and thy bat shit crazy ways? i love thee thiiiiis much!

seriously, the new season of "antm" makes me so very happy. the main reason being that rich at fourfour will begin doing his monday recaps again! hurrah!

today marks the offical date of leff and my third seattleversary. every year, in honor of this auspicious occasion, we eat zeek's pizza



and watch "sapphire and steel". because that's what we did the first day we were in town. you know, after we unloaded the moving van and returned it to uhaul.

so labor day. i spent it avoiding bumbershoot. (although it somehow managed to find us during the stp show. i'd never been able to hear bumbershoot at my apt until this year. hempfest, yes. the 'shoot. no.)

leff and i also cabbed out to green lake for a party but there are no pictures so, for all intents and purposes, it didn't happen.

so, hey fellow windows machine users! are you using chrome? why the fuck not?



it is *awesome*! super fast, incredibly light and wonderful enough to make me want to nominate it for my vp candidate without properly vetting it!

i need to cut this short. i went to the dentist again this morning and i'm still numb. (which makes me cranky and, oddly, high as fuck.) ciao 'til fri.

missy elliot made from pumice foot scrub.

what's your favorite missy elliot song? i can't decide between "the rain" and "work it".

i know, i know, i said i'd be back on tuesday and here it is monday and i've got a post. i've got a good reason though. see, "gossip girl" is on tonight. (hahah! no. seriously. i'm hooked. i'll explain why in a sec.)

i have two reasons for watching "gg"-- 1) blair waldorf and 2) chuck bass. and so we have the following two fugitives.



nair waldorf. (blair waldorf made from nair. (although i doubt that blair would ever use nair. (i certainly don't. (it smells HORRIBLE.) in fact, i'm not even sure where the bottle came from. it's been moving with me for at least 10 years. perhaps i should throw it out...))



and chuck bassket. (chuck bass woven onto a plastic basket.)

i've never read any of the "gg" books (although one of the ticket takers at the monorail assures me that they're quite fantastic.)

i have, however, read quite a few of judy blume's books in my time.



judy ballume. (judy blume on a balloon)

in fact, the fudge books still crack me up!

have a great labor day holiday if you live in the states! if not, have a great weekend! i'll be back after the long break is over with four new fugitives!

have a great labor day if you live in the states! if not, have a great weekend! i'll be back after the long holiday is over!

i'm still getting chills from barack's speech last night, sweetpeas!



("pop barack" (barack obama made from 4 packs of pop rocks for suspect and fugitive)

but i'm kinda' glad that the dnc is over. i was, frankly, growing weary of all of the crying that i've been doing during the speeches. (i feel i should add, crying's not my thing. like, ever. if i ever ran for office, my slogan would be "stoicism for the masses!" har har (i'm lying. i'd somehow find a way to recycle "a chicken in every pot" because, honestly, that rocks even if it did come from a republican.))

where was i? oh yeah! we got another print! "it sleeps" by design medicine!



it's the first of two cepholapod prints that we got. hooray!

what else is new? i went to the optometrist and found out that i'm a genetic freak of nature!



apparently, i have some really rare thing where i'm near sighted in one eye and far sighted in the other. (not kidding. my glasses will have one +1 lens and one -1 lens.)

i'm *really* excited about this not because i'm thrilled to be some genetic mutant (my paternal grandmother had this or something very similar (according to padre) BUT because my lack of depth perception explains WHY I KEEP RUNNING INTO THINGS! so, it's not that i'm clumsy or unused to being tall (my standard lame joke for when i slam into doors, walls and bookshelves) but simply because i can't see.

how insane is that?!?

the new glasses might also help get rid of the remaining clustery, migrainish headaches. and it might even make me look like tina fey. (no, that won't happen but one can hope!)

another bonus? i've started calling my right eye my "haunted eye" and telling leff that i'm going to get it an exorcism if it's covered under our medical plan. also? i can give him the evil eye just by closing my left eye and proclaiming "EVIL EYE!!! HAUNTED!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOO!"

heh heh.

right, have a great labor day weekend if you're in the states! if not, enjoy the regular weekend!

since i'm still super exited about barack obama accepting the democratic nomination, i thought i'd end the week with one last democrat. here's former president jimmy carter made from peanuts and natural peanut butter.

i could gush about my love for former president carter and his wonderful humanitarian work for PAGES but i'm sure you're getting weary of the politics. so let's just leave it at "I LOVE YOU, JIMMY CARTER!!!!" and move on.