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December 15, 2005
Q: What Does Freedom Taste Like?
By request, from Neeta, who is still working on her 24-HOUR Law & Sexuality final. You go, girl! Sex it right up! You're almost there!
A: Suspiciously like wine.
And like more than 3 hours of sleep a night. And eating something other than Potato Buds. For breakfast. And lunch. And dinner. Yes, I probably have scurvy.
But who cares?! Because I AM FREE! Free like the wind! I AM Misty of Chincoteague, man! Nothing to study or outline for THREE WEEKS! I could do anything! I could live in a yurt! I could like, get married AND get it annulled in THREE WEEKS! The possibilities are endless!
And so what have I been doing?
Uh, meeting the cable guy to get my interweb back, cleaning my apartment and going to Target.
But! It has been an adventure! Because I totally forgot that I, like, you know, LIVE IN LA (props dude if you watched that show -- Evan Handler! Chris Eigeman! A.J. Langer! and Jennifer Grey! How did it not survive? Was the car-chase-city-shuts-down episode so unrelatable to non-LA inhabitants? If so, this does not bode well for my story.).
Anyway.
Going to Target in Hollywood is too fun. It is full of very toned, tanned PYTs in women's jeans and muscle shirts buying iPods and beaded pillows who are NONE TOO PLEASED to have to share an aisle with me. And cute little moms buyings tampons and trying to keep the munchkins from toppling over the pantiliner display. And then there are the hipsters. And generally, I have indie blood in me, so I don't judge.
But really? Mutton chops? Coupled with a phat moustache? Not so much. Yet I counted THREE faux-70s moustache/'burn combos in Tar-jay. One was so thick and full I went into spasms of gleeful gross-out thinking of him eating brunch at AMMO and getting eggs in it.
Anyway, I hope you all are having a mutton-chop-free week, and I will you a little bit of the extra JOY I am currently experiencing at being FREE! Free like a bird! A bird that likes to drink a lot.
p.s. Christmas mixes in the mail tomorrow, woohoo! Sorry so late!
Posted by jen at December 15, 2005 08:11 PM
Comments
I think the show flopped because of Jennifer Grey's botched nose job. Nobody knew from looking that it was Jennifer Grey.
I blame the excess facial hair on the popularity of Anchorman. Damn that Ron Burgandy.
Posted by: Dagny at December 15, 2005 09:52 PM
YAY!!!! LOTS OF DRINKING!
Now I don't have to drink alone. Um, not that I've been doing that...
It's because that show was stupid, that's why it didn't make it. It was like Seinfeld, but worse, and how Seinfeld made it in the first place is beyond me.
Posted by: Gloria at December 15, 2005 10:37 PM
Gloria, you are never drinking alone. Just like it is always noon somewhere, there is always someone drinking. Just imagine that person drinking with you.
Posted by: Dagny at December 15, 2005 11:09 PM
YAY~ I'm done too! Raising my glass to you! To freedom! For three weeks...
Posted by: jenny at December 15, 2005 11:22 PM
GO YOU! Drink that wine! Write about those trips to Target! :)
Posted by: wenders at December 16, 2005 07:18 AM
Woo hoo, three weeks? You could sail around the world!
Posted by: ~drew emborsky~ at December 16, 2005 08:51 AM
I loved Misty of Chincoteague.
Posted by: laurie at December 16, 2005 10:55 AM
dude you crack me up. you can't get scurvy if you're eating potatoes - they're chock full of vitamin C. it's when you run out of potatoes that you need to worry.
i vote for the quickie marriage/annulment. do it in vegas. at an elvis chapel. :)
do you know how many movies you could see in three weeks? A LOT, dude A LOT. what theater chain is near you? i'll send you a loew's gift certificate....(or whichever one)
Posted by: carolyn at December 16, 2005 11:42 AM
p.s. signed up for every sat/sun in january LSAT class and the text on feb 4. am i crazy or what.
Posted by: carolyn at December 16, 2005 11:43 AM
Carolyn - You ARE crazy! Have you learned nothing from my pain? No, finals do suck really bad and you may have a complete identity crisis and alienate your friends and family, but overall, it's worth it!
Posted by: jen at December 16, 2005 11:45 AM
F to the R to the double E! Woo hoo! Your post-finals activities are so much better than mine, which have included watching TV for 5 hours straight (including four makeover programs)and NOT showering. But methinks I will be doing that before Maggie's tonight, so you will not have to associate with a dirty person. Or, you might, but it won't be me.
Posted by: Neeta at December 16, 2005 04:17 PM
I would have to disagree. To me, freedom tastes like a bad, blended scotch whiskey. Like Dewar's. Deee-lish. But maybe that's coincidental with the fact that I'm considering growing a soulful Ron Burgundy-esque mustache/beard combo to combat the foul weather we have here. "I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly... "
Posted by: Logan the Great at December 16, 2005 07:49 PM
Congratulations on not completely freaking out and killing everyone in the greater Hollywood area (or maybe you did and I just missed it in the news)! Enjoy the freedom.
And the wine.
Posted by: Jeff at December 16, 2005 07:50 PM