Stuck in a hotel conference center nestled deep in Illinois. It is cold outside and snow is everywhere. However, I haven’t been out of this building in 2 days! Every second is planned, every meal is provided. I am beginning to wonder if maybe I am not here on business but rather dead. Is this heaven or hell? I am not sure.
Tomorrow I go home, or do I?

What Video Game Character Am I?

What Video Game Character Are You? I am Pacman.I am Pacman.

I am an aggressive sort of personality, out to get what I can, when I can. I prefer to avoid confrontation, but sometimes when it’s called for, I can be a powerful character. I tend to be afflicted with munchies constantly. What Video Game Character Are You?

I am off to Chicago to teach a class on Sales Force Automation!

What’s New on Yahoo – Society and Culture (Fri Mar 1, 2002)
I’m listed in Yahoo!!!

This evening, I went to IKEA and had dinner…Swedish Meatballs! Then I purchased 2 CD towers. They don’t match my bedroom furniture exactly, but they look good enough. At home, I quite handily put the towers together. This may sound strange but I always felt that I possessed a woodworking gene. Perhaps in a past life I was a carpenter. Maybe Karen, since I have such a phobia about gaining weight. The shelves look good sitting right next to my bed. Within minutes of assembly, they were filled to capacity. The bottom shelves hosts my DVD and VHS tapes of Veronica Voss, Run Lola Run, Goodbye Columbus, and Monkee episodes. The rest of the shelves hold Elvis Presley, Serge Gainsburg, Dusty Springfield, Die Toten Hosen, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave… I am glad they now have a home.

Last night Lisa and I went to see our dear friend Audgie in the play: The Vagina Monologues. It was so wonderful and we left feeling very inspired by our own anatomy. In celebration of our new found awe as well as Audgie’s incredible performance, we went into Center City to Ludwig’s Garten– a German Bier Hall! We drank Berliner Weiße mit Schuß, Hefeweiße, and RADLER (lager and 7-up). I felt like I was in Germany!!

At the play, we were given little V pins. Afterward, someone said: “Why are you wearing a V pin?” I replied: “Because I love Marc Singer.”
Do you get the reference?

I just remembered my dream last night. Mr T and I were saving beached whales at the Jersey Shore. The whales were quite big, but Mr T and I were able to lift them up and throw them back into the Atlantic.

Joe and Max (2002) (TV)Last night on STARZ! there was a 1/2 hour show on the making of this movie. The title refers to Joe Louis and Max Schmeling- and guess who’s in it?!?!?! TIL SCHWEIGER!!! No, he doesn’t play Louis- he plays Schmeling 🙂 Til was interviewed and his English was very good. Peta Wilson from La Femme Nikita plays his Czech wife. The film was shot in and around BERLIN!!!! I wonder if Jürgen Prochnow has a cameo? It is scheduled to be broadcast on March 6th- I can barely wait to see it! Ich kann kaum erwarten!

BTW Richard “Shaft” Roundtree is also in it!!!! My dear friend Audgie has a theory that all great movies contain a dwarf- I wouldn’t be surprised if Joe and Max has a dwarf!!! 🙂

A cluttered room leads to a cluttered life and that is the reason I am doing some monstrous cleaning. I emptied my desk and gave it to the Salvation Army. (You can see a little of the desk in the photos on the right) My dad re-furbished my closet with shelves and 3 rods so I have more room for my Gap clearance clothes. Going through the mounds and mounds of papers that I found in my closet and desk I have come to one conclusion: I was one hell of a strange kid. Why did I save every Weekly World News and Nat’l Enquirer newspaper that had something to do with Elvis Lives? Why do I have sheets and sheets of photocopies of Yul Brynner and Charles Bronson? WHY? WHY??!?!?!? What kills me is it’s the same picture of Yul Brynner, but on certain copies I colored in his eyes: blue, green, purple… There are a lot of different pictures of Charles Bronson, they are cut out of the TV guide and then photocopied over and over. Death Wish 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. (Back then my favorite movie of his was Twinky. I soooooo wanted to be Susan George!)
The crazy thing is: I still can’t throw the junk out! I packaged everything in a little box, waiting to remind me in another 10 years that I was an absolute weirdo in my youth.

Todd is always there for me! He’s such a guter KERL!!!! (He signed my comments! :-))))))
Guess what Lisa and I bought at IKEA? A Cd rack? No. A Chest of Drawers? No. We bought…Swedish Chocolate and Salmon Paste. No, not chocolate and salmon paste combined together but 2 separate items. Just thought I’d make that a bit clearer. The chocolate was good, I can’t remember the name- we destroyed the wrapper getting to the chocolate. Heck, we may have devoured the wrapper along with the chocolate. You can never go wrong with chocolate. It is possible to go wrong with a bright blue plastic CD rack.
Is it just me or does IKEA furniture, although so cool and stylish, looks cheap and shoody?