March 19, 2003
I am a pile of slop
I am the laziest mofo tonight. I don't feel like doing anything. Bills? I don't see a big stack of bills sitting on front of me. What are you talking about?
My friend Amy and I were supposed to go to a matinee of The Hours today, but we got to the theatre and it wasn't even there. Damn fandango.com. It LIES. So we went to Target instead.
I'm driving down to the University of Illinois tomorrow to pick up my niece Maureen for spring break. After seven hours driving all over the state of Illinois, she'll be owing me some babysitting, oh yes she will.
We were eating dinner tonight and Andy gazed off into space, then said, "Oh yeah! The war starts tonight!" Like he was talking about the Simpsons or the West Wing or something.
When the Gulf War started, Ericka and I were watching Paula Poundstone perform in the student center on our college campus. She must have received a newsflash, because she announced it during her show. No one left or anything, but when I got home my roommates wouldn't let me turn on CNN because they were "tired" of war coverage. Mmm hmm.
Posted by Amy at March 19, 2003 10:25 PM
Don't pin the "like it was the Simpsons" on me. I mean, yes, that's how I said it, but it's also the way Dubya positioned it.
It should be noted, however, that when THIS war started, you were all set to watch Sorority Life and were shocked and dismayed to find MTV covering the war.
So, while Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw were busting out their military hardware trading cards and talking to their retired generals, you got to hear what Fred Durst thought about the whole thing.
MTV *did* eventually put on Sorority Life (don't ask me how I know), so all was good in the end.
I particularly enjoyed when Tom Brokaw was discussing with someone or other about how we want to bomb the city, "but not destroy important infrastructure, because in a couple of days, we're going to own the place." Classy.
