NAKEDNESS & OTHER ASSORTED BUSINESS

Now that I'm working out of my home, I spend a lot more time there and notice the neighborhood a lot more. My next door neighbors are really cool and they have like 100 kids so their yard looks a bit like Sanford & Son over there. The kids are nice though, and so are the parents who are just slightly older than me. The only problem I've encountered with my neighborhood is my neighbor across the street. He's weird and not easy to talk to. He's also shirtless almost every time he's outside, and it's not naked in a Justin-Timberlake-hotness kind of way: it's naked in a good-God-put-your-shirt-on kind of way.

And being the super-voyeur that I am, I put my digital camera between the venetian blinds and took this photo to illustrate my point:



Now, I've got students coming over to the house every half hour. This is really bad for business. I mean, it's not like it's even SUNNY out and he's trying to work on his tan. He's just naked for no good reason.

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Speaking of naked, I've noticed lately that I'm bruised all over my hips and upper thighs. I'm not really sure what's happening there. I mean, if I was getting some action, it would be understandable. If I was walking into shit or banging into things, then the mystery would be solved. But these are just appearing out of nowhere. Unless there's some sleepwalking going on, I have NO idea where they're coming from. That is possible, though, because I talk in my sleep and also have weird wacky dreams that wake me up and visually still happen once my eyes are open. (Does that make any sense? I mean the dream keeps happening even though I'm awake - my brain takes a second to catch up to my eyes.) So, it's plausible that I'm just beating the shit out of myself in my sleep. Ahhh. That's a pleasant thought, no? I just want these ugly bruises to go away.

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This weekend I went to a party at Ben's house. Ben and I get along really well and I have a tremendous amount of affection for him. I really like him because he's incredibly intelligent and talented, but he's also a big goofball and we have a similar sense of humor...not to mention he's got the hotness factor! (Ben, you did not just read that). He's also competitive and so am I, so we'll battle it out in Scrabble, cards, whatever. Amy and Shah aren't really competitive like that, so I'm glad he's around even though he almost always kicks my ass in whatever competition we have. Some day I will be victorious though....

Anyhow, back to the party. Ben has lots of very pretty, very young friends. They were all extremely nice and we were all coveting a lamp in his living room. He's got all this really cool retro furniture that was given to him, and he probably doesn't even know how cool and hip a lot of the stuff he has is. Anyhow, I'm going to swipe that lamp one day when he's not looking.

I also watched three movies this weekend (yea, Netflix!):



First, I love, love, love Queen Latifah. I want her to be my friend. This movie was cute - not great, but cute. There's just something about her that I really love. I think it's that you can just sense that she has a lot of pride in herself, she's really talented and funny, and she's just GORGEOUS. I also like that she's breaking stereotypes. She's a big woman and she's hot. I love her for that.

I was really looking forward to seeing Monster. This was slow at times for me, but overall I thought both Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci were amazing in this. Beyond the whole physical transformation thing, I thought they both were so engaging and really created believable characters. The story itself was so sad and you do end up having sympathy for her because she lived hard. I'd recommend seeing this because the Oscar she got was well-deserved.

The Station Agent was one that Amy recommended. I loved, loved, loved this. It's a story about a man who's a dwarf and he's into trains. A friend of his dies and leaves his land and a train depot which becomes his home. It's more a story about relationships and connections with people and it was just beautiful. One of the characters (Joe) is absolutely hysterical and he's my favorite part of the movie. The movie/story was just so different and the characters were wonderful. Definitely see this one.

And that folks is why I do not review movies - because I suck at it!

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Ok, I've been in the office since 7 am and I haven't done squat. I need to go. I can't just hit here and type for you all day. A girl's gotta scratch out a dollar!

As my sister Megan used to say 10 years ago, peace out, yo.





- posted by Taunia @ 10:05 AM