A Grrrreat Waste of Time!

Company Mascot Quiz
If you do well on this, I assume it means that you a) are obsessive, b) have a photographic memory, c) watched way too much TV as a kid, or d) some combination of the above. For me, I think it's d=c+b.
My score was 15 and 5. How's yours?

More of the Extraordinary

As a follow up to my last post, I would like to ask: If you could have any power, what would it be? I know it's a cheesy question, but come on. Admit it! It's an interesting one! Personally, I am torn. I think flying would be really an excellent thing to be able to do. The first thing I would do would be to fly out over the ocean and find some island somewhere to spend an hour or two. Then I would come back to the city and spend some quality time figuring out how to use my power to avoid the MBTA without being shot as a UFO. Given this power's inherent difficulties of use due to society's fear of the misunderstood, these days I am tending towards telekinesis, which I think would be supercool. Seriously, though. You could do so many things! And if you had enough force, and took physics into consideration, you could conceivably push the earth away from you and you would end up basically flying anyway. So share your thoughts so we can all psychoanalyze you for it! And feel free to psychoanalyze me. Gently. Ooh gurl.

On Extraordinary Abilities and Excessive Wealth

My mind lately has been consumed with one of three things:
1) Heroes: A new obsession, I have succeeded in getting Zoe to give it a shot and am rewarded by her enjoying it enough to watch both existing seasons with me! We finished last night, which is perfect since today is the premiere of season 3 (subtitled Villains, which is good because last season didn't really have any, and it stank) and I am very excited. I have been excited since 31 days ago. I know it was 31 days ago because I downloaded the countdown gadget for my desktop then. And this is how I know I am a big geek. But that's ok, because how often do you get to geek out about people with super powers, most of whom are hot, endearing, fascinating or a combination of all three? Actually, pretty often between the show and all its online content.

2) Trip to Florida: Tomorrow, I leave for my second ever gig in another state. I'm flying Southwest again since it was so blessedly hassle free when I went to Austin. I'm hoping for another smooth trip. All signs point to this being an interesting experience. Some of the signs? The dress code for concerts says "think Catherine Zeta Jones," Palm Beach's estimated median family income is $94,562, and the median house/condo value in Coral Gables is $837,900! Holy cow!

3) The Messy Intersection of Things Number 1 and 2: Because I'm working until 6:30pm, watching Heroes until 11pm and then leaving first thing tomorrow morning, the last few days have been a frenzy of planning ahead. I made a cake yesterday (henceforth to be known as Teh Cake, and to be viewed above) for tonight, and I decorated it this morning between my lesson and work. I am extremely pleased with how it came out, which is saying something because I am usually the last person to pass approval on any artistic project I had a hand in. I futz too much, and things get smudgy/gooey/messy/ugly. But not this time! In addition to Teh Cake, my suitcase is mostly packed, my cello is home already (so I don't have to take it on the bus at rush hour!), and Digikami is all set to come get me and Teh Cake in Stiney's car so I don't have to walk to his place with it, thereby tempting disaster. Because planning your life around a TV show is just pathetic, unless said TV show is really extraordinary, hopefully this new season of Heroes will have recovered from the season two nosedive, thereby justifying all the effort put into Thing Number Three.