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You know, I haven't been pimping my
Oscar contest nearly enough. All you have to do is make your picks and
send them to me, and you could win a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com,
courtesy of yours truly. Why do I do this, you may ask? It's mostly because
none of my local friends care a whit about the Oscars, so I have no one
to feel excited with, but by running this contest and bribing all of you to
write to me, I feel connected to fellow Oscar-lovers (or at least people
who just want $25.) So go ahead, check out the nominees,
copy this form into
your e-mail program, fill in your picks, and mail it
to me.
If you do, I promise I'll only mention this 12 or 15 more times before March 26. And speaking of movies, I completely ripped off Melissa's entry with the following lists of the 1999 movies I saw...
As a third wheel (i.e., with a couple kind enough
to take me with them):
With a group:
By myself:
With just one other friend:
With my mother:
With both parents:
On video, either alone or with friends:
As a whole, the batch I saw with a group of friends ranks the lowest as far as what I liked. I tend to let other people make the selections in those instances and they aren't usually what I want to see. Actually, making this list makes me feel a lot better. I know people think it's strange to see a movie by yourself, and I've been doing it for almost ten years ("Pretty Woman" was the first movie I saw alone) but I was starting to get a complex about it. But now I see that I do actually see the majority of movies with other people, so I'm not quite as maladjusted as I had suspected. Ack, I'm afraid that's it today, nothing but a plug and a stolen idea. We're having a dress rehearsal for the trial competition tonight, and I'm up as the attorney, so I need to get my stuff together before going shopping for a new pair of knee-highs. God bless knee-highs. Why any woman would wear full-on pantyhose under a pantsuit is beyond me. And yes, I'm wearing pants, which would probably surprise you if you cared at all about what women wear in court, which I'm sure you don't and neither should anyone else. I must be confident in how I look, and I do not look good in skirts. The sad truth is that I'm a little closer to Ellenor Frutt than Helen Gamble when it comes to build, and how often do you see Ellenor in a skirt? I'll wear three-quarter length, but really prefer full-length, which is deemed to be as much on the professionalism periphery as pants are, all of which makes me want to shoot myself. My wardrobe should not be the issue. It's hard enough for me to feel good about how I look, so if you're going to call me unprofessional because I'm not wearing a skirt, just look out, because I'll shoot you. |
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