Ok, I admit I started reading the article but never finished. It just started reminding me of a Lifetime Movie of the Week. I do still appreciate Ann Curry, though.

Claire arrives in Cali, tomorrow. It will be the best thing to have happened in a long time

 
ok, loving Curry as i do, i misspelled her name......it's ANN....geez people come on!! i would like for the members of our club to read this essay by ANN it's really great

 
Indeed, I do agree. It was about 18 months ago that I saw the light. I was thinking of going into scientology but decided immediately that Anne Curry worship was the path to enlightenment. Light as a feather but hard-edged steel, she is like Ginsu, and she has sliced her way to my heart.


ps. I may be forced to switch affililations considering how my original love, Bonnie Hunt, has a television show now.

 
i've decided to start the ANNE CURRY FAN CLUB! who's with me? earnest, do you wanna be the pres or the CEO? either is fine with me. we will have only 2 goals - to love anne and to have her read us stories once a month! what should our mission statement be? "to love and cherish anne in all her wonderfulness" is that too simple?

i've been watching the today show every morning.....seeing as how i'm unemployed......and i just think she's great! i know you agree earnest.

 
This is for Joe:
Scoop:
NOUN:1a. A shovellike utensil, usually having a deep curved dish and a short handle: a flour scoop. b. The amount that such a utensil can hold. 2a. A thick-handled cuplike utensil for dispensing balls of ice cream or other semisoft food, often having a sweeping band in the cup that is levered by the thumb to free the contents. b. A portion of food gathered with this utensil. 3. A ladle; a dipper. 4. An implement for bailing water from a boat. 5. A narrow, spoon-shaped instrument for surgical extraction in cavities or cysts. 6. The bucket or shovel, as of a dredge or backhoe. 7. A hollow area; a cavity. 8. An opening, as on the body of a motor vehicle, by which a fluid is directed inward: “The [sports car] has . . . enough scoops and spoilers to get you a citation just standing still” (Mark Weinstein). 9. A scooping movement or action. 10. Informal An exclusive news story acquired by luck or initiative before a competitor. 11. Informal Current information or details: What's the scoop on the new neighbors? TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: scooped, scoop·ing, scoops
1. To take up or dip into with or as if with a scoop. 2. To hollow out by digging. 3. To gather or collect swiftly and unceremoniously; grab: scoop up a handful of jelly beans. 4. Informal To top or outmaneuver (a competitor) in acquiring and publishing an important news story. ETYMOLOGY:Middle English scope, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schpe, bucket for bailing water.OTHER FORMS:scooper —NOUN
scoopful —NOUN

 
yes, i think it's Seattlites, and the pizza place would only be cool if it were run by either a black or a korean family. or should that be african and korean? or black and yellow? i'm serious here. i just don't know what's right any more, i'll just ask joe. he want's to blow up the afgani resturant down the street.......i'll bet it has really good food.
do you know why we move back and flounder? i think there is a book on it now. people say it's because our parents are baby boomers, one of the most successful generations in terms of material wealth and things like that.so when we are young a lot of us are given just about everything we want, told we can do anything we want to do, we have our hands held throughout our lives until college is over and then **oops** you're on your own.......rely on yourself when you never have had to before...and that's scary. what if we fail? friends can only do so much, and sometimes i think i put to much pressure on them, they don't know it, but they really are my life raft right now, friends both near and far. it's cool to think that i know people in at least 7 different states. not to say that i talk to all of them or anything, i talk to people in 2 states, i should talk to more though, i just don't. it seems that it's enough for me to know the others are alive and well.
i have a friend that i used to work with and he says that the only reason he does work is because he needs to provide for his son and wife......his career means nothing to him outside of that. when he had his kid, his life changed and that was part of it. that's sorta cool i think. not the having to work part, but knowing why your doing it.

 
What do people from Seattle call themselves (besides cool)? Are you Seattle-ites? I think that would be cool. Los Angelinos... Doesn't that sound like a pizza place?

 
I admit to swimming in a pool of self-pity. I don't believe everyone should have one, but I want a career! I want a career and family- the American Dream. I'm tired of just working jobs, waiting for my career to come along. There are a couple things more important than having a career, and those things are things which come from having a family. Sharing love with a wife and, eventually, kids and sharing knowledge with kids and, eventually, the world- those are things more important than a career. A hobo needn't have a career to accomplish those things, but it certainly makes it easier. The thing is- I think being old sucks now, but I think that when you accept that you are old, it probably isn't too bad. I guess that's what growing old, gracefully, is. I hope it happens to me.

I've been hearing about this "quarter-life crisis;" I think I've actually been hearing about someting called a second (or late) adolescence where people our age move back home and just flounder for a while because they don't know what to do next. I hope I never have to go back home- that would suck more than anything at this point. I'd rather become a bum on my own than be a bum under my parents' roof.