daily life

yes, i am really am so white i glow. fact.

i wore another one of the dresses i had planned to sell on etsy. it's a cotton house dress with the alfred hitchcock profile embroidered across the back. it wasn't gonna sell anyway, so what the hell? one of the girls at work asked me if it was fat albert. maybe that's a clue as to why i still have it.

i was on the seatac employee bus when the newstext came through that karl malden had passed away. the celebudeath week continues.
i loved malden. a while back, i blogged about him in one of my favorite argento movies, the cat o'nine tails.
malden's death isn't shocking - he was 97. what IS shocking is that i had to explain to several people who he was. on the waterfront? streetcar named desire? "he played priests a lot." i said, finally giving up. he actually did, though. and he didn't carry cash.

i find myself falling into a bit of monotony, a routine i guess. get up, go to work, make the deposit, drive home through a sunset that makes me marvel, have a beer, go to bed. it's nice to be back in one after those two tumultuous months. still...

i scrubbed the bathtub while i took my shower today. even though i never do a very good job, i find myself extremely satisfied when it's done, like i accomplished something. today i felt so good about it, i scrubbed up the toilet and sink as well. i wear this mascara that slides off my lashes in tiny black tubes when i wash my face, and they stick to the sides of the sink. after a few days it looks like an infestation of little withered parasitic worms. i like to let it build up until that point and bill doesn't seem to mind too much. he's kind of a slob himself so he doesn't get on my case.

i thought bill bought a new car but i guess it was just a service loaner. he's as broke as me. we're quite the pair at the moment - two loser roommate peas in a pod.

at least my car runs.

i've been using the "suggestions for you" feature on netflix quite a bit lately. they take the ratings you gave to films you watched and based on users with similar likes they suggest other films you might wanna see. it's worked pretty good so far but i wish someone would create something like that for dating. "based on your ratings for john and dmitri, we think you'll enjoy andrew." take that and run with it but if you make money, i want a cut.

we get paid a day early because of independence day. yays!

i was listening to a program on NPR about the thomais paine and his influence on our founding fathers. even though he was a prolific writer, the most memorable thing for me is that his remains are missing.

"In a bizarre finale his remains were exhumed by William Cobbett, who planned to rebury them with ceremony in England, but the project failed, and the remains, seized in a bankruptcy proceeding, disappeared. " - bookrags.com

i don't know why that stood out to me so much. just thought i'd share.