Yes, yes, let's talk about the weather

(heee! Penzance reference, ahoy!)

Well, thank God, is all I'm gonna say. No, it isn't, but still. Monday night, I check what the weather's going to be like for Tuesday and they tell me the high is 78. It never, not even in the sunniest part of the highest temperature afternoon got to be 78. For some reason my room is astoundingly cooler than other places in the apartment, and my work is freezing most days. We don't even have the AC on yet, but I'm grabbing cups of tea just to keep from shivering. It's ridiculous.

This morning, I see that the high is 77, so I don't make yesterday's mistake, and I wear a fleece. It's beautiful outside. Perhaps a little humid, but it warm. Nice warm, not uncomfortable warm. And sunny, and my God the smell out there--it smells like the best parts of Spring and Summer. And the trees have either stopped copulating for the time being or they're done for the season, so my nose has stopped itching. Hurrah!

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Last night's House nearly killed me D-E-D dead. Because House gave Wilson amphetamines in his coffee, and consequently Wilson was more amusing than he's ever, ever been. Wlison got back at House because he'd secretly been slipping House anti-depressants in his coffee for the better part of a week. They are so cutely gay-married-but-not, I can't even tell you. How could I even care about the Patient of the Week or stupid Foreman quitting when Wilson's freaking out so badly he asks House for a Vicodin so his heart doesn't explode!?

Also, hello Piper Perabo. Please, don't take this the wrong way, but: GO AWAY. Anyone remember that girl from Coyote Ugly. Okay, there were a lot of "that girl" from Coyote Ugly. She's the one with the heart-of-gold ::vomits:: who doesn't appreciate her geeky (I know!), cute (damnit!), Australian (FUCKER!) boy-toy (KILL!!!). Anyway, she can't act for crap and the only reason she didn't utterly ruin the movie The Prestige is that she died before it could really get started.

You've already conquered the Jackman, Piper. You put your over-large, droopy lips on Hugh Laurie, AND I WILL RIP THEM OFF.

It's time to take the bitch down

This link is stolen from deltagrl because this one actively makes me angry. Way to go, BBC!

I'd heard that Paris Hilton was in trouble for driving with a suspended license. I'd heard she'd even been sentenced to do some jail time for it. I had also heard that she was trying to rally the denizens of MySpace to bully the justice system into not making her pay for what she, stupidly, obviously did wrong. The woman is a millionaire--she couldn't have gotten a driver for the--max--forty-to-sixty days she'd be off her license? Taken cabs? Gotten her other wealthy friends to do the driving? Seriously, this was not a woman without options to avoid violating her probation, so there's no way in hell she deserves any leniency for this shit. You vioated probation, woman! You don't get another chance--probation is your second chance!!

I didn't realize, however, that she had had her license suspended for drunk fucking driving. Excuse the fuck out of me, you CUNT: you went driving DRUNK, got nailed for it before you killed anyone, and now you think you have the right to complain when your slap-on-the-wrist stung too much for your liking? You have the right to shut the fuck up, go to fucking county jail for the like two days they'll actually make you, and sit on this ::gives her the middle finger::

It's better and better that her netroots campaign is arguing that she should not be sent away because of the cruel deprivation we, the lowly masses, will experience in her absence.

The petition to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also claims she was being used as a scapegoat to highlight the dangers of drink-driving.

The petition paints Ms Hilton as a role model who "provides hope for young people all over the US and the world. She provides beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives".

Yes. Because there is something wrong with showing to the world with a public case that we are willing to hold a criminal to the penalties of the law for what she consciously did to violate it and the mercy of the courts as well. Also, my life is made a lot more mundane by being compared to some billionaire bitch who gets to engage in behaviors that might have killed other people and get away with it.

Do you know how my "mundane" life could be improved by Paris Hilton? If the bitch gave away all her money to members of the working middle class and then disappeared to private, non-publicized life forever. My "mundane" life would be vastly improved if, for just once, the rich could be held to the same standards as the rest of us. Is it unfair that Paris Hilton should be the first to suffer for it?

NO. Duh. What's unfair is that she and anyone else of her economic class should ever get away with it, not that we're not letting her this time.