If you're lost, I'm right behind.

[raybear]

1. Six years ago, The View was my secret guilty pleasure I'd watch nearly every day, in part because I was in love with former 60 Minutes correspondent Meredith Vieira. But then the show started driving me nuts and I couldn't handle the the blood pressure spikes so early in the morning. So while I'll still watch Oprah in an attempt to keep tabs on middle American, I turn the television off afterwards, except for sometimes I forget and get sucked in.

Like today. I just watched a segment on the View about the process of the fashion consultant, how she chooses the wardrobe for the various hosts, and then showed them all getting dressed. And Meredith said something about how she's always the last to be dressed, she waits for the last possible minute when they're yelling at her, and then they cut to her opening the dressing room door, tripping over herself and the shoes laid out for her, and swearing up a storm that required beeping, and I kinda fell in love with her again.

2. I did watch Oprah today as well, and Terry McMillan and her gay ex-husband.......um, I don't even know what to say about the show. Except that:
one, they both have a few issues to work out ("I don't really 'do' forgiveness")
two, what ever happened to bisexuality?
three, they didn't believe him when he said had no gay inclination prior to the age of 24, so I can't WAIT for Sheryl Swoops to show up and talk about choosing to be gay.

3. Um, Yanni is back? And not on pogs. He's re-releasing his Acropolis concert. Just in time for the holidays!

4. Whoa, Joy Behar just did a last minute plug for reformed healthcare in this country.

5. Normally this section would be reserved for apologizing and explaining watching fluffy daytime show but fck that isht. I also spend the morning reading "hard news" and philosophical treatises on warfare and discussions on hermeneutics and frankly they all have something to reveal about the national consciousness.

6. I woke up with my right tonsil swollen. Just the one on the right. What is wrong with my immune system lately?

7. Yesterday I saw the Wallace and Gromit movie at $5 Tuesday special movie theatre. It was grand.

8. I actually made a purchase and sat in a Starbucks yesterday. It was tea, not coffee, because I don't like their burnt beans. This wasn't intentional, but the other coffeeshop closed down and we needed a place to sit and have a meeting. Standing in line, I figured it's not really any different than my occasional McDonald's craving. I don't even know why I feel I should confess since I don't really feel guilty. It's more that I'm trying to put my finger on something, trying to figure something out. 'Cause our culture is weird.

9. muffybolding posted this NYTimes article that mentions all these Chicago places I know really well. Including the bookstore I used to work and I got all defensive when they mentioned some male employee. What?! They hired a guy? I wanted to the only one in their entire history. Then again, it could be the reporter just assumed the employee to be male and used "he". Oh, the article itself is kinda controversial too. You should go invade her journal.

10. I want to stay in my pajama bottoms all day and read and write.

Comments

[raybear.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, i'm totally still rocking the chocolate cake batter stained thermal shirt and plaid flannel pants with fuzzy slippers. i'm more lamenting the fact that i can't STAY this way. in about 3 hours, i must go mold the minds of young writers at my after-school program.

occasionally i have to get dressed to write though. usually if i'm stuck and it's the afternoon or evening, i'll shower and dress and maybe even put on shoes, just to sit back down at the desk and finish writing. this happens around deadlines, it's like i have to trick myself to do work like the regular world.

[cocolola.livejournal.com]

yup. i'm wearing some crazy mismatching sweatpants/sweatshirt combination. i dream of getting dressed in the morning - it just doesn't usually happen until 4pm or so.

[magdalene1.livejournal.com]

Ack, the View! Ack!

It was on every day in my cubicle this summer. ACK!

[raybear.livejournal.com]

i know, it's horrifying. i feel like it gets worse each week, which hardly seems possible.

[gender-euphoric.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's a little too late in the game to designate Andersonville a child-free zone?
Kidding.

[saltjam.livejournal.com]

I also spend the morning reading "hard news" and philosophical treatises on warfare and discussions on hermeneutics and frankly they all have something to reveal about the national consciousness.

you're too much. ha.

The View makes me really really really anxious.

[riverafire.livejournal.com]

You are so great at creating lists and somehow connecting so many disparate things.
I didn't see that Oprah episode, but oh how I wish I had. I don't know why people need to take the sexuality of others so personally. The whole deception thing. Bah! People turn gay out of spite all the time, no? Terry McMillan needs to move on and Oprah needs to stick with what she knows and have more "favorite things" shows.

number lists

[raybear.livejournal.com]

it's because i cheat and just write a regular entry but randomly hit enter twice at the end of a sentence and add a number! kind of like how when i attempt to write poetry by basically writing a paragraph long story with random line breaks. ha!

the Terry McMillan show was interesting because they were BOTH there at the same time. and i was a little worried that Jonathan the gay ex-husband would get the raw deal, but seeing the two interact was rather illuminating. but ultimately the whole thing went on too long. i don't even have tolerance for my friends spending 45 minutes going on and on dramatically about the tiny details of their relationships.