bizarre

As I logged into my aol account the other day I noticed an article about pregnancy being "hip". Ugh. I couldn't bear to actually read the article, but the caption for it mentioned how all the current celebrity pregnancies are making becoming pregnant increasingly more hip. What? Yes, let me gain 20-30 pounds in 9 months, wake up at 4am to pee, have the uncontrollable urge to eat a whole container of hummus, and be a mushy gushy ball of sentimental goo. Sure, hip. That's the right word for it. All the cool kids are doing it, so it must be hip! Yet another reason reading celebrity oriented magazines and websites usually annoys me. They are packed with stupid. Don't get me wrong, I love this whole pregnant thing. It's quite amazing. Even my over-sized clothing is kinda cute. BUT, if one would use the word "hip" in defining the modern day preggo, I'd say the everywoman made pregnancy "hip" way before angelina jolie and brad pitt decided to spawn. I guess no one notices trends until famous people APPEAR to start them. what a shame.

good stuff

So I'm reading all manner of mother blogs (did I mention I'M HAVING A BABY). Maybe I didn't. Welp, I am. It's surreal and fantastic and makes me warm and fuzzy inside. So, this morning I was reading a blog entitled "four sweetpeas". It's written by a mother with 2 children in Sacramento, California. Her and her family live in this beautiful place. Everytime I see families in places that are sunnny, mountainous, or on the ocean, I sigh and think "oooh, I'd like to raise a family there!!" But you know what I realized today? I was oooh-ing and ahhh-ing at this blog, but the parts that made me ooh the most were the cute anecdotes about grandma coming over to play with the kids, and the family Easter gathering, and even simple things like the new flowers blooming, and the new dress she made in sewing class (I'm guessing she's a stay at home mom). I'd love to live on the west coast, but it just doesn't seem to compare with what I'd get living in Pittsburgh. People trump atmosphere. Ah, it's nice to realize that :o) (though I still wouldn't mind about a 2 year sabbatical out there...maybe a post-doc position....pending of course that I actually get the "doc" part completed ;o)

flip-flop

It seems the weather is finally cooperating. The sweaters are snugly under the bed, and the flip flops are getting dusted off and coming out to play. Once the farmers markets start opening up, I'll be one happy city living girl.

I watched Crash 2 nights ago. It was okay, nothing quite earth shattering. I expected more for all the hype it received, but it was okay. I liked the Constant Gardener better. The end.

Hump Day

I have an iTunes playlist called "Hump Day Jammin'". It gets me motivated mid-week to crank out that data, and it goes something like this:

Front Porch - Umphrey's McGee
Lovely Day - The Boogie Hustlers
Rodeo Clowns - G. Love and Special Sauce
Upside Down - Jack Johnson
Mr. Charlie - Grateful Dead
Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Knot - Sunfire Pleasure
Eric->Step to the Street - Agents of Good Roots
Killing me Deep Inside - Slightly Stoopid
Renegades of Funk - Rage Against the Machine
Dancing with Myself - Billy Idol
Battle of Who Could Care Less - Ben Folds Five
This Ain't Livin - The Boogie Hustlers
Sugaree - Grateful Dead
Tough Livin' > Uncle John's Band - Guilty Pleasures
Jamming - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Stir It Up - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Burn to Shine - Ben Harper
My Apartment - Addison Groove Project

Happy Hump Day!

techno-geekery

Well look at that:

Turning a decades-long rivalry on its head, Apple Computer introduced software today that it says will easily allow users to install Microsoft's Windows XP operating system on Apple's newest computers.

The software, Boot Camp, is available as a free download on Apple's Web site and will be part of the next version of Apple's operating system, Leopard. It works on Apple's three lines of computer that run on Intel chips — the Mac mini, the iMac and the MacBook Pro. - NY Times

just too funny

Remember the FSM? The flying spaghetti monster? A clever retort to the theory of intelligent design? Well, I just discovered that there is now a book!!
It's The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster!! Holy Crap!

Get a load of this (from Amazon.com):
Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What drives the FSM’s devout followers, a.k.a. Pastafarians? Some say it’s the assuring touch from the FSM’s “noodly appendage.” Then there are those who love the worship service, which is conducted in pirate talk and attended by congregants in dashing buccaneer garb. Still others are drawn to the Church’s flimsy moral standards, religious holidays every Friday, or the fact that Pastafarian heaven is way cooler: Does your heaven have a Stripper Factory and a Beer Volcano? Intelligent Design has finally met its match–and it has nothing to do with apes or the Olive Garden of Eden.

How funny is that????