1. I've taken to running again. If I wasn't already persuaded, it took but one trip down to the park in my "excercise" pants (aka my "pajama" pants, my "lazy day" pants, and my "run across the street for milk" pants) to realize that my ass has taken on epic proportions. Something needed to be done - pronto! I am still reeling a bit from the discovery, but I am trying to tell myself that this is a temporary thing.
I do, however, have the awesomest boyfriend in the history of all mankind. After I came home from my jog - and corresponding realization about The Ass - I said to him, "Do you see my ass? It has a mind of its own. I walk one way, and it decides to go another. When did it decide to stick out so much? And to make its own decisions?" He looked at me and said, "That's the way we like 'em." Then said something in his own language that translates as "Your body is sexy sexy." (repetition for insistance). Then he shivered and fake fainted as a direct result of The Ass's glory.
2. Everybody! And your mother! You absolutely must go to This American Life and listen to the greatest thing ever. Go to the archives page and find the piece on Neighbors (2006). Skip past Ira's introduction and listen to the first story in which the founder of Found Magazine went to meet Mr. Rogers. And it is the cutest damn thing I've ever heard.
I have started up the most lovely habit of going to work on the weekends when nobody else is around. I positively binge on NPR -- on Sunday, for exampleI listened to back-to-back episodes of TAL, and then two episodes of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! in which I actually banged on the table two or three times in laughter. Good thing I'm alone in the store.
As for The Ass, that's hilarious, and yes you do have an amazingly sweet boyfriend.
I used to go out on Sundays (back when I owned a car) and run all of my errands just so that I could drive around and listen to NPR. That way I could laugh as much as I wanted and no one else could hear me :)
Yeah, people always make fun of NPR for being so boring. I must be really easily amused, 'cause that shit is funny!
I love Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. I organize my Saturdays around it. And I've heard the Neighbors piece twice now. It still makes me go, "oooh!" And is there any humor in calling someone the FOUNDER of FOUND magazine? Hee.
Did you know the founder of FOUND was from Ann Arbor?
Kari - of COURSE you've listened to the Mr Rogers thing twice.
Srah - Actually, he mentioned something about Ann Arbor in the interview. I think. Oh -- no wait, that was a different thing I heard on TAL. But seriously, Ann Arbor is kinda known in a rinky-dink sort of way.