can someone please read my TB test?

Well, thanks anyway, but I did manage to get that done today.

I feel that I owe an advance warning to my friends and myself:

This is going to be a shit year for me.

I anticipate not returning phone calls, emails. I believe I will fall asleep, flake out.

Apparently I've already accidentally stopped eating. I just keep forgetting.

But I am working on not feeling sorry for myself. I've always believed that I'm "tough." I think I get to find out now.

Teaching six classes with four preps. Taking two classes with infinite reading and writing assignments. I can do it. Are you picturing that Rosie the Riveter poster? Because you should be.

Katie Holmes deserves an Oscar for First Daughter

As does the screenwriter. Mother of pearl! What a perfect movie to be half-watching on a sick Sunday morning. I feel like I might be getting the flu. Does that happen in the summer? Anyway, I just got to the climax of the movie, wherein Lucky Charm (the first daughter's secret service code name) discovers that her hot (I'm using that as a relative term) resident advisor, that she brought to the presidential ball or whatever as her date, is actually in the secret service. Believe it or not, I knew this was coming. Is it because of my superior perception, discretion, and detailed knowledge of story arcs? Possibly. Is it because that is exactly what happens in Chasing Liberty, Mandy Moore movie with exactly the same plot, which I also saw on tv within the past few months? Probably.

Having said all of this, it must be noted that I miss the Bad Movie Club of last summer. It is difficult to find people who have the ability to mock a movie like Caroline and Diana. It is also difficult to find people who will go with you to Coyote Ugly after the bad movie. Really difficult.

But back to Mrs. Cruise. I am so embarrassed for her every time I see her on screen--with the one exception of Pieces of April, which was amazing. Other than that, she is a remarkably bad actress. I'm so glad Maggie Gyllenhal is replacing her in the Batman movies.