Iron Man

My husband has a cute ass. I'm proclaiming this since it's probably the most innocent thing I could see in his hip x-rays today. Everything skeletal was pretty intimidating.

We confirmed this afternoon that John will soon need to have a "rotational osteotomy" on his left hip within the next few weeks. It will be his seventh surgery. That's pretty amazing to me. Unfortunately, no one in Austin specializes in osteotomies of the hip, but we think there might be a surgeon at the Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who can help us. I just hope that we won't need to go out of state.

14 hours from now I'll take the GRE. It's not really the top thing on my mind right now.

It's gonna suck.

I love you, Ricky.

This opinion is something that I'm sure will be wildly disagreed with by everyone I know, but, well, I enjoyed Ghost Town waaay more than Burn After Reading. Don't punch me, okay?

But, yeah, I recommend it.

On another note, I think I've fallen for Austin. This feeling will be more certain when I find a place around here that makes decent guacamole. It's important. If you have any suggestions, please pass them my way.

[update]: So, I've been feeling shitty all day - sneezing and runny nose stuff - but I just chalked it up to the consequence of living with a kitten. It got worse the last few hours, so for fun or something I took my temperature. The readings varied from ear to ear, but overall I'm averaging over 100*F. (<-- Notice the lame attempt at a degree symbol?) I'm going to take some Theraflu and go to bed. The reason I mention all of this, though, is that I'm just baffled as to how/why I have a cold right now? I bet fucking flu season is starting. Ugh.

"Bruises"
Chairlift

"I woke up with the power out, not really somethin to shout about"

I tried calling but I can't reach any of my friends in Houston. At least I know that Priya and her family are ok via her blog. I hope Marion and Jordan are okay as well.

My family is ok. I can reach them by cell phone. Several branches fell on our roof; one pierced the roof and crashed in our attic. That allowed a good amount of water damage to the ceiling between our living room and the attic and has weakened the ceiling. My parents are really concerned about that collapsing so they have moved everything out of the room. The only other pressing issue really is that almost all of Houston is without power, and I'm reading estimates that it will take a few weeks at least to fix it. I hope my neighborhood gets power again soon, because without it my parents have no way of charging their cell phones.

On a cuter note, I'm sitting on the edge of the sofa and Stella has fallen asleep with her body wrapped around my butt.

[update]: Yesterday a lawn crew tried to remove the branch threatening our roof, but when the supporting branches were cut away the whole thing fell straight through our house and landed in our living room. My brother tells me that the hole in the ceiling is about six feet wide, and is pretty close to the ceiling fan. My dad and the crew put up some tarp and hopefully that will keep the rain out.

The sky looks slightly ominous

I saw Burn After Reading today at lunch and I think I might have enjoyed the Australian Beef Pie I ate more - but that's because IT'S BEEF PIE. Yum. I need to learn how to make Beef Wellington. That might have been one of the best things I ate in New York. Anyway, about the movie, I was not prepared for how pointless it was and how jumpy it made me.

Yesterday I played Super Mario Galaxy ALL. DAY. LONG. It was embarrassing. I stopped when my arms hurt too much for me to play well.

I signed up to take the GRE on the 30th for some reason. Well, for the reason that it's required for graduate school, but I'm really scared that I'm going to put it off until I don't study for it at all. Should I study? I decided to take it this month so that I would have time to take it again if I bombed. And when I took the SAT, my best score came when I wasn't trying. I think I'm also terrifying because John told me that he had so much trouble with it...and John is smart! Kind of. Well, yes, but not as smart as I am (based on SAT scores, GPA, and the fact that I'm able-bodied).

It hurts me to admit this here, where people can read it, but I haven't done shit with thank you notes yet. Ughhhh. I wish there were a person I could hire to do this, like when Cartman hired some Mexican men to read The Old Man and the Sea for him in season 11. Season 11 of South Park is fucking amazing, by the by.

I just spoke with my parents - they're taking Kirby to the park for one more good run before the storm really begins. My dad told me about this really helpful website, stormpulse. I highly recommend it.

Oh, of course I forgot something. This may be totally common knowledge by now (cuz John was all like, "ohemgee, duh, you didn't know??") but they're making a (non-documentary) movie about Harvey Milk, which I'm really excited about. I really hope that turns out to be stellar, and hopefully more people will know about him and his legacy.

"Skitzo Dancer" - Justice (remix) < --- thx to the Alamo for this one

CANNOT. STOP. WATCHING.