dear ben & jerry,

please make me carrot cake ice cream.
thank you.

i hear that

FB

skanks gail :)

project runway

My thoughts on why this was the worst season ever:

1. NYC > LA. obv
2. When the top 3 are completely predictable, and the winner is the expected, it kinda takes the wind out of the show's sails.
3. When Michael Kors and Nina Garcia have people fill in for most of their judging slots, you have to think they don't care too much.
4. Irina was sassy and felt too entitled to win, so I do not feel happy for her, even though her dad crying made me cry.
5. I loved Carol-Hannah and she should have won. Also, she should be my friend.
6. All of the challenges were remedial...compare the Bravo seasons of making post office uniforms, using flowers to make garments,etc. to this season. Bravo had challenges that were challenging whereas Lifetime's weren't that difficult and seemed more recreational. The most difficult was the maternity challenge, and all that was was making an awesome outfit for a super-skinny model with a crazy, pre-measured belly. I guess Lifetime wanted all of the challenges to just result in pretty outfits that would please the viewer's eye & retain a skeptical audience. I guess they didn't take into account their viewers who had brains and understand the definition of the word challenge.

The next season starts in mid-January (so much for the suspense factor) and will be in New York, so at least there is that.

i dreamed that love would never die

The ultimate underdog singing from my dad's favorite musical.


And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

jodi & joyce

Recent reads by two of my favorite ladies. A+ x2

i am them

i didn't steal your kidney

but i did steal this from mandi's FB

mr. wally lamb

I have read a lot of books lately, most of them weren't worth mentioning. But every rule has an exception, and I have found mine. In high school, I read two books by Wally Lamb: I Know This Much Is True and She's Come Undone (the second I stole from a library, I'm sorry to say, but I had to). Both were books I wanted to read when I couldn't, like an addict. Oprah loved them too.
So, he became overwhelmed by the success of his books piggy-backing on each other and didn't publish one for awhile. I looked for a new book here and there, but figured it was a lost cause after a few years.
UNTIL I found The Hour I First Believed at my favorite York used-book store. I bought it, gobbled up all 735 pages, and reaffirmed my literary crush. I can safely say that Wally Lamb is the greatest fiction writer I have ever encountered, and I've been friendly with a lot of them. The man included an appendix with playlist to recount his inspiration. I can't say enough.

my, what an angry jury you have.

Tonight was the read-through for my second play in York. I was only planning to be here a month, but at least I have been given the opportunity to act in 2 plays. Before Anne of Avonlea, I hadn't auditioned in 5 years (thank you, Gordon College). This one is called 12 Angry Jurors and is at the York Little Theatre. I am Number 2 because first is the worst and second is the best. The theatre has good vibes, the show has a contemporary setting, the cast seems nice & talented, the space is in the round, and I am the closest thing to a child in the cast. All these things make me think it will be a good experience.

The downside: there is a performance on the night of the Lost Season 6 premiere.

Theatre v. Lost = the greatest battle for my heart ever.