This just made my weekend

i've moved!

ive gone to wordpress! just need to iron out all the kinks, but im pleased so far (depending on how big your screen is, my formatting is either perfect or horrendous. arggh someone teach me css!)

http://rightmindleftcoast.wordpress.com

i love that surly lump!

Val just sent me this ecard:

ha! yeah, right.

my sister, on my 1 year review: your bonus or ours :)

states of emergency

whoa, and the fires are still raging.

according to the nytimes, in the past two weeks, there have been 40 lightning-sparked wildfires that have charred 49,000 acres (76+ square miles). this is crazy. yesterday, 1,450 fires were reported contained, but there were 320+ still raging. the sierra nevada foothills are burning, the central valley is a smoky mess, big sur is in danger... is this typical?

the mid-atlantic gets so humid this time of year, it's hard to imagine anything like this in dc or the tristate area. norcal is so dry though - it's actually one of the things i dont like about the state. sure, parts of it are gorgeous, and im a sucker for the drive down 92 into half moon bay and rte 1, but a lot of the bay is just a lot of brown (okay, amber on a good day). there's just so much brush, and with 2008 boasting the driest March and April in California on record (ever), it's incredibly concerning. just a few weeks ago, the governator declared an emergency draught, and there've been questions over whether or not we have adequate equipment and personnel to fight all the fires (scoops told me yesterday she's thinking of becoming a forest firefighter next summer, which sounds incredible. and incredibly necessary)...

so what can we do? im all for water conservation / energy conservation / recycling... but i fear it's all too little, too late. california is burning while the midwest is flooded. the mississippi was at 29 ft, spilling over into Iowa, Missouri and Illinois (am i forgetting anyone). global warming, anyone? god, i hope g bushie saw wall-e.

compare and contrast.

*****

here's an interesting tidbit brittany just sent me: http://www.sacbee.com/378/story/1066675.html

maybe things arent so bad after all?

have i really not posted this yet??

for some reason i thought id posted this on at least one of the blogs! or maybe i just sent it to everyone i knew. oh well.

my latest obsession (besides the bachelorette and her beautiful boys):



how ridiculous is that dance? i love the part around the 1:25 mark, it's just brilliant. granted, the dance is a little... primal... but something about it just works. and damn, do chelsie and mark sell the thing. if this were america's best dance crew, little mama'd be yelling they "stabbed the chicken in the heart!!" (translation: they killed it!!)

oh, and there's actually an 8 min clip of the entire segment. completely worth checking out for getting to see chelsie totally tomboy it up. yum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8nWIqxo0U

i think because im currently incapable of doing anything other than hobbling, i have an [even] bigger affinity for dance shows than usual.

here's the empeethree: leona lewis - bleeding love

oh, and cause it's wednesday, here's a cover, too: mystery jets - bleeding love (leona lewis cover)

my dad, in a nutshell.

today, on gchat:

me: hi daddy
Joseph: hi alex
me: i just asked the guy who works at the salad place out and it was so awkward
Joseph: why did you do that?
me: why not? he's cute
Joseph: but isn't he the wrong gender?
(some pause)
me: cute is not a gender
(more pause)
Joseph: be careful who you go out with.

i love my father.