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As a practice run for the direly needed task of organizing drawers, cabinets, and closets at home and because I think morbid thoughts like, "What if I die? Someone would have to clean out my office!" and am horror-struck, I'm taking a stab at organizing my office. I've cleaned out three desk drawers, and I'm already so exhausted that I've had to quit. I found things in the bottoms of such drawers ranging from five years of time sheets and pay stubs to a dirty fork and wedding band receipts. Barf! This is not boding well for things at home. Is three junk drawers in one kitchen too many? Should things fall over and land on your head when you open the hall closet? Is that normal? I am counting down the days until the weekend. Saturday night is a big party at some bar that I have not been to since I was twenty years old and my memory of it is one of feeling so crowded and sweaty and drink sloshy that it was akin to standing in a flushing toilet. On Sunday, I think I'll head out to my friend's property in the country where I can drink beer, watch dogs run around, stare at the lake, and channel my father as I advise the guys that they'd better be careful with the fireworks or they're going to shoot their fingers off. I have thirty mosquito bites right now. The only good thing about cleaning out my office drawers was finding a bunch of old mix tapes I used to listen to before our we got computers with CD players. My friend Eva used to make the most amazing themed mixes, and right now I'm listening to "Verses and Poets." Whatever that means. It's good, though, and includes a couple of songs from the Kevin Anderson / Patti LuPone version of Sunset Boulevard, which is obviously the best one. Kevin Anderson needs to be way more famous than he is. Am I the only person who wants to see Before Sunset? I really liked Before Sunrise. I caught it on Lifetime the other day, and I could not believe how good it still is. I'm reminded of this right now because for some reason Eva put an Ethan Hawke song from Reality Bites on this mix tape. It starts with the lyrics, "I've got a pothead mom, I've got a cokehead dad." Awesome. Anyway, Ebert and Roeper both loved Before Sunset and said that it's better than the first one, brilliantly written and acted, and shows gorgeous scenes of Paris. I hope it comes out here. I had no idea that Ethan Hawke's character's name was Jesse, though. No idea. I guess all I can do now is post pictures of the pets that I took last night. The dogs got bathed and dried themselves frantically on the rug, blanketing it with fur. I hate Zuko. 
Wait! Maryelizabeth just made up a survey because I complained that all the ones that are passed around email suck. Never again will I answer any survey that has questions like, "How many times do you let the phone ring before you answer it?" GAH! Here we go. 1. BREAKABLE OBJECT YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO HURL ACROSS A ROOM WITH VIGOR? Zuko's crate. 2. WHAT BOOK SUCKS SO MUCH IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN? 3. FAVORITE HORSE? Mr. Ed. 4. BEST CURE SONG? Gonna have to go with "Pictures of You," because "Just Like Heaven" is too obvious and "Love Song" makes me want to kill myself. 5. TIC TACS OR DICK TACKS? I have a strange affinity for orange tic tacs. 6. NORTH DAKOTA OR SOUTH DAKOTA? Um ... South? 7. FAVORITE TEEN POP SINGING SENSATION? Does Justin Timberlake count? 8. MOST ANNOYING NOISE? Zuko's early morning shrieks. 9. FAVORITE MARIAN KEYES BOOK? Rachel's Holiday, followed by Angels. 10. MOST EMACIATED CELEBRITY? (NO FAIR CHOOSING MK OLSEN) Debra Messing, pre-pregnancy. 11. NAME YOU WOULD NEVER EVER NAME YOUR CHILD, DOG, OR CAT IN A BAZILLION YEARS? Blister. 12. WHAT'S LEAST IMPORTANT IN LIFE? Mosquitoes and cockroaches. 13. FAVORITE SMURF? Brainy. 14. CRÈME BRULEE OR CHEESECAKE? Cheesecake, no question. 15. MOST HATED TOY EVER RECEIVED AS YOUNG CHILD? Barbie Townhouse, because it was a sorry substitute for Barbie Dreamhouse. 16. HURRICANES OR TORNADOES? Gonna have to go with hurricanes. 17. FAVORITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER? It's a toss-up between the Turtle and the Chicken. (Only to be understood by those who went there.) 18. WHAT IS YOUR FIRSTBORN PET'S BIRTHDAY? It's estimated that Daisy was born in February of 1999. 19. DO YOU LOW-CARB? That is no way to live. 21. MOST OVERRATED MOVIE OF ALL TIME? I used to say Casablanca until I watched it, when I realized it's really as good as everyone's always said it is. I guess I'll have to go with Citizen Kane, which bored the snot out of me. And I've got to say that I've never gotten what is so fantastic about L.A. Confidential. 22. FAVORITE BELL BIV DEVOE SONG: "Do Me!" 23. VODKA OR GIN MARTIMMIES? Vodka. I haven't been able to drink gin since the night I drank it out of a bottle in a paper bag at Red Rocks in the summer of 1995. 24. DO YOU PREFER PT CRUISERS OR MINIVANS? Honestly? Minivans. 25. FAVORITE JOHNNY DEPP MOVIE? It's not really a Johnny Depp movie per se, but I loved Chocolat, and I am not ashamed to admit it. 26. BEST BOOK MADE INTO A MOVIE? Seabiscuit was a great book, and I loved the movie, too. I am a sucker. 27. MOST LOATHSOME, OVERRATED FEMALE CELEB? Hilary Duff, the female Scientologists, and Keira Knightley. 28. AL ROKER OR MATT LAUER? Neither. I cannot tolerate Today and only watch Good Morning America. 29. FAVORITE BROADWAY SHOW? Presently, because I am just getting to know it and am ironing out plans to go see it, it's Avenue Q. 30. PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Shelley and Maryelizabeth. 31. PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Everyone else. 32. FAVORITE TEEN CRUSH? River Phoenix was my one true teen love. 33. FIRST KISS? Seventh grade. Kissing game. In a shed. Romantic! 34. BURRITOS OR TACOS: Burritos! God. I love a chicken burrito. I could eat one every day. 35. WOULD YOU RATHER DINE WITH THE POPE OR THE DALAI LAMA? Hitler. Just kidding! 36. FAVORITE CONSTELLATION? The only one I've ever been able to really make out is the Big Dipper. That is so boring. 37. BATHS OR SHOWERS? Lately I like showers, because I'm always so dirty after working in the yard that I don't want to sit in my own filth. 38. NAME YOU'VE ALWAYS WISHED YOUR PARENTS NAMED YOU? When I was young, I wanted to be named Katherine. I have no idea why. I guess I like my name well enough. 39. HAVE YOU EVER BITTEN YOUR TOENAILS? I'm sure I have once or twice, but only in a dire emergency. 40. FROSTY OR RUDOLPH: We were a Rudolph family. (Not that you'd know it from my inability to recall what movie "There's Always Tomorrow" came from.) My little brother watched it year-round throughout his entire early childhood, along with Sleeping Beauty, though if you attempt to make him admit that now, he'll hit you over the head with his guitar.
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