I told you I was smart!

It's all so, scientific. I think I may feel nerdier because I took the quiz.

Book meme

I took the challenge. You can too.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

"That feeling had haunted him ever since he'd heard the news about Roark; the sensation of something unpleasant that remained after he'd forgotten the cause."

Fairly easy to figure out since there is an actual character name in the sentence.

Watch Style Network Saturday at 10 pm

Ooooooh, I'm using names. I told myself I wouldn't, but this is important.

Style Network has a show called Diary of an Affair which is on Saturdays at 10 p.m. EST.

My "not so aspiring actor anymore" friend Shane landed a lead roll on Diary of an Affair as a video game obsessed husband who is cheated on.

This is very exciting because this won't be another History Channel war documentary. OK, he's done more than that, but the last thing I saw was the war documentary and I can only take so much blowing up of things and people.

The nerve of some people!

I just caught my neighbor (the one who fights with his wife all the time) taking the cans and plastic bottles out of my recycling bin! Rudeness in spades. It also doesn't help that his English is not good, so I can't yell at him and tell him to go pick through his own recycling.

I had stopped putting out recycling at night because inevitably someone will start going through the bin at 3 a.m. However, recycling has to be out by 7 a.m., but it defeats the purpose if you put it out at 6:59 and your neighbor cleans it out at 7:01.

So why am I complaining? Because my recycling helps keep my city taxes low. Berkeley collects recycling then sells the material for funds that go back into the city. Therefore costs for schools, libraries, parks and other city services stay low. Which means my neighbor is stealing and causing my city/property taxes to go up.

So I'm just going to start recycling all the good stuff myself. Cardboard and the big bottles that no one wants can go in the bin, but the creme de la creme will be carted away by me and me alone. Hell, I might even take my soda cans to the place that buys them. That should be a couple of dollars a week.

Fresh figs

I just picked the first ripe fig off of the tree.
Dang are they good!
Glad I get to enjoy every single one this year.

20 days until

I can go see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!!!!

Neat-O!

Thanks to yarbiedoll for this fascinating truly scientific survey!