A Collection of Things

New temp jobs, new opportunity to post random thoughts that meander through my brain. Let's begin.

1. If there are lots of empty seats on a train or bus, including many that are next to each, don't sit next to me. Why would you do that? Don't you want a seat to yourself?

2. From Slate.com: "I didn't know how much I wanted to see Don Draper vault over a bar and chat up a Southwestern stranger while mixing an old-fashioned (with rye) until I saw him do it in this scene." Yes.

3. Is it weird that most of the new music I discover these days comes from television? And, more often than not, commercials?

4. As much as I love Vogue, there is something perverse and profoundly dillusional about any publication that shows you &490 hats as "bargain buys." On a similar note, it was just downright cruel for Real Simple to feature a $2,000 Prada bag on the cover of their 'Dress for Less' issue. Totally not okay.

5. 'Julie & Julia' is a great movie, mostly because Meryl Streep as Julia Child is a treasure and Amy Adams is just so likeable she makes it reasonably easy to ignore how dislikeable Julie Powell is. Also, was excited to see Kacie S. in it. I know people who know her!

Almost time for lunch, where I will drink another Diet Coke and savor the feeling of my teeth rotting from the inside out.