Nanny
Well this is crazy. It’s a picture of my maternal grandmother in 1912.
When Models Think
I’m scoring a stack of assessment protocols, and Aaron is bloglining. We TiVo’d Tyra Banks earlier this week, and we’re watching it now. Tyra has invited Naomi Campbell, apparently her arch nemesis, to "process" their shit. It’s so bad, and yet I can’t look away. It’s bad – maybe not as bad as the episode where she put on a fat suit and kept saying, "I’ve dressed up to look like a woman who is OVER THREE-HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS!"
Gotta share a little of this… Naomi Campbell on sexual abuse and rehab:
I was in the desert, and I just was like, you know what? It’s something that I want people to know that rehabilitation should be taught in schools. Because it’s something once you know the tools, you know when you’re not happy, when to say I’m not happy and take some time out… There’s a lot of like… you get so secure…
Need I go on?!
Tyra and Naomi are average-IQ’d, pretty people who think that because they have important jobs and are famous, that they have important things to say. Tyra wants to be Oprah. Naomi wants to be spiritual. It’s sweet to watch them try, but lawd, they don’t have half a brain between them.
Now they are crying. Why am I watching this?!
Birthday!
Happy Birthday to Me.
Happy Birthday to Me.
Happy Birthday dear Abbeeeeeeee.
Happy Birthday to Me.
I awoke to about 10 fake e-cards from various companies. The funniest was the one from the Google Earth Hacks forum. All it said was "Happy Birthday from the Google Hacks Forum." No pictures, no free stuff. Just Happy Birthday. Weird.
Aaron sang to me when I first woke up, which reminded me that it was my birthday. I’d forgotten (if you can believe it)! Now I’ve sung it to myself multiple times. And my birthday cheese grits are just about ready.
Now accepting silly e-cards here:
North & South Stations
From the Not For Tourists Guide to Boston:
There is a one-mile gap between the two Amtrak stations. The North Station stop is on the Orange and Green lines of the MBTA subway, and the South Station stop is on the Red Line. Yes, it is crazy that the stations aren’t on the same line and don’t directly connect to each other. No, they’re not going to do anything to correct the problem in the near future. Yes, they could have rolled it into the Big Dig project, since they were digging under the city anyway. No, we don’t know why they didn’t. And yes, it does seem odd that they spent billions to improve automobile transportation while ignoring public transportation. As is stands, travelers going from New York to Maine have to get off the train at South Station and either take a cab, take two subway trains, or walk to get to get to North Station to continue their journey.
