Grating on my nerves.

So what's the deal with grated cheese sandwiches? Does anyone honestly think that grated cheese makes a better sandwich filler than say, sliced cheese? Do people like seeing half the contents of their sandwich fall to the plate as they try to eat it? Or do British people have a better grip than those of us from other countries?

Anyway.

"Yeah you don't get that information without dinner and a couple of cocktails...."

(My thoughts regarding having to submit my biometric info to the data-saving-challenged UK government by the end of the year.)

The only thing more creepy would be having to submit it to the American government.

Radio-Free England

Very sad about losing Pandora in the UK.

Officially the Weirdest Email to Go 'Round the Office Today.

Did you leave your trousers in my office??!! After a day away from the office (on Thursday) I returned and found a pair of black mens trousers in my office. Not having seen any of your walking around without your trousers I am not sure to whom I should return them. Please come and collect them if they are yours.

Thank you,
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Pig Out.

For more about British people and their seeming obsession with hog roasts, tune in next time...

Rugby.

So this world cup thingie is my first ever foray into the sport of rugby. Myoffice has set up a "pool" of sorts and I've been given the Italy team to support, whihc I'm happy to do, but having watched my first ever rugby match the other week, I just want to say that I never want to hear how violent American football is again. I mean sheesh. Ok, that is all.

Michael Sick

I've been really disturbed--even from "across the pond"-- about the Michael Vick dogfighting case and I'd planned to do a post about why. But really, all my reasons have already been mentioned by others: the cruelty, the insanity of such a rich guy trying to get even more rich by profiting off cruelty, the fact that he lied about being involved...but the simple fact is that I'm upset and angry because two of my major loves are dogs and American football and Michael Vick has abused both. And I know "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" and all, but I can't help hoping that he goes to jail. I'm sorry, but I can't.

Just a quick question.

Why aren't there screens on windows in the UK? Just wondering.

"ice Cream!" I Screamed

If you live in or near or nearish to London and you've never been to Ben and Jerry's Sundae on the Common, then let me see...how can I put this nicely...oh yeah, what is WRONG with you?! Seriously, free ice cream, decent bands (was v. fun to see The Proclaimers) and did I mention, free ice cream for the masses? No wonder everyone seemed so happy and mellow.

London Underground dinner party

Period Costume Dude at Basildon Park

actually uses the phrase "lust tiger"

Speaking of Dad...

He would have been wild about where I went today with Julie, Zoe and Nicole...to Basildon Park...where they filmed a lot of the Keira Knightley version of Pride and Prejudice (not my fave version btw, am I really supposed to buy Keira Knightley as a woman a guy would find unattractive at first? puhlease.) anyways...

Father's Day Shout Out

I love him and miss him and believe in him. And he has a heart the size of Jupiter. Happy Father's Day, Pops.

Riddle me this.

I'm having a hard time remembering when exactly we started caring about who was giving voice to animated features. It seems like every time a animated film is released these days we have to know up front which celebrities are lending their voices to the characters. Now, my problem with this is two-fold:

1. I've a great respect for voiceover artists and I bet a good number of them are getting screwed out of a job just so a movie can amp up the fact that some celeb is behind the talking frog or penguin or whatever. (I'm not talking about roles where versatility is needed like Robin Williams as the genie in Aladdin, etc. I'm talking about characters that just require a nice, pleasant voice, which brings me to part 2 of the two-fold problem...)

2. Part of the point of animation is that, well, it's animated; it's illusory. We are supposed to believe in the character and not be able to picture the person behind what's been fashioned so carefully on screen. It's actually distracting.

So there ya go.



(Truth be told, I have no idea who played Ariel and I don't really need to know, but whoever she is, I hope she hasn't lost her job to Cameron Diaz.)

20 days and counting....

20 more days until cigarette smoking is banned in UK establishments and forced out into the fresh open air where it belongs.

Texas accent, revisited.

Well, after years of trying to shed my Texas accent, I'm afraid that after seeing Vernon God Little at the Young Vic last night, it's rearing it's Southern head. Apologies all 'round, y'all.

Fwwwwt! Fwwwwwt! Swooosh.

(that would be the sound of me wiping dust off my blog.)

You can't make this stuff up.

A booth at the Christian Resources Convention I worked at today...

C'mon it's only Cornell...

As a writer/ editor and sometimes-proofer, this made me feel reel gud.

photo from www.ivygateblog.com

Yes I still find this funny.

I know this has been posted everywhere, but I still find it amusing so...

1. Go to Google maps.
2. Click on get directions.
3. Go from " Atlanta " to " Paris , France ".
4. Scroll down in the directions to number 22.