i am really goofy lately. my current obsessions are the NY times crossword puzzle--done every day by noon or i receive no food. no. not really. but i usually have it done by noon if i get the mail myself. i time myself some days. and then if i can't sleep, i have a big book of 500 sunday puzzles. i've only finished 6 since i got the book in '99, but i'm picking up the slack... okay. other current obsessions: alton brown. i've moved beyond laughing hysterically at his cultural refences to scrutinizing each episode, waiting for him to make a cute face of some sort. i even read his blog. british murder-mysteries, especially wire in the blood, with the tall, thin, and tortured robson green starring. yum. and what else? i don't know. getting tired now.

and because i have almost no other human contact, i pester my parents continually. i poke them in the side of the face or flick their earlobes or any other annoying thing i can think of to do to them.

someone should give me some drugs or alcohol because i'm starting to go to bed at a reasonable hour nightly. what's next--waking up at a sensible time???

oh. and! at my old-lady-sorority club meeting last night, my second grade teacher (probably 80 years old by now) made a joke about the super bowl halftime show fiasco. wow. this is really big, isn't it? her joke was actually really funny. i was pleased.

that is all. good night. *off to curl up with my teddy bear and my crosswords, having watched my thursday night line up*

*including personal sex idols william petersen, noah/goran/mekhi, jon stewart, and alton*

*what, me, lonely?*