Timewaster's Guide Archive

When I was pregnant with my first child we were living around the corner from my mom, and since we didn't have any money, we'd always go over to her house for dinner.  I had morning sickness every minute of every day up until the day I delivered--and so most of what I ate then I can't eat now, but the worst is Stouffer's Lasagna.  My mom made it about every other day because it was easy and big to feed all the extra people.  I still can't eat it, and I have to pass that part of the frozen food aisle really quickly or just the thought of it gags me.  

My husband won't eat yogurt because he can "feel the little things moving around in his mouth"  he won't eat mushrooms because he pictures eating athlete's foot, he won't eat unmelted cheese because he pictures it growing as he eats it.  He also won't eat sour cream or cottage cheese because he can "feel it curdle in his mouth"  He refuses to eat at any ethnic restaurant he has not eaten at previously because he just knows he'll get sick, thusly he always gets sick.

I knew someone once who wouldn't eat corn nuts because she was eating them once when her brother crashed the car she was in and she was spitting them out in the ambulance.

I refuse to eat at certain restaurants, like the Mayan--I've seen the kitchens, and I know what goes on in the back rooms.  If you want specifics I'll tell you, but I don't want to just post it out here, or some people will have to undergo therapy to eat at any restaurant again.  

yeah, I must admit I am surprised that these particular people turned out to be twg readers, but I swear it's true.  

They are, actually, some of the coolest "in" people in the department.  (I might add that neither of them watched the superbowl either. so all in all it was a very surprising conversation)

But it warmed my little sisterish heart to know that my very own big brother's site has reached the strange and twisted brains that study music all day long and tell music theory jokes in latin.

Although it wasn't HIS article they were quoting...

okay, I'm confused.  Why is everyone so obsessed with Snape being ultimately good?  He'll probably end up being good, but just because Dumbledore trusted him so much doesn't necessarily mean he was right.  He said that he's usually right but when he's wrong he's spectacularly wrong.  
My mom brought up that this isn't really a kids book, but then it doesn't have to be.  who's reading this book?  children yes, but they didn't start with book 6 did they?  these are long books and the kids would probably be 10 or 11 before they start the series and it would take them a while to get to this one.  So yeah, it's a little old for an elementary school-aged kid, but unless they're reading them out of order, they're not the ones reading them.  
And I have no idea what she's going to do about anything in the next book--after this one, I don't really know what to expect.  I wouldn't have thought she would kill Harry, but you never know.  Hermione might figure a way out of it, but we could all be wrong and he's not a horcrux after all.  I'm completely stymied.

I don't really think any movie about this book is for kids, as far as that goes.  It's a great book for kids, who can use their imagination and not creep themselves out--but when it's visualized for them, it's a bit much, however you do it.  

It had nothing to do with the styling, thank you.  I hated it because it destroyed the whole point of the book--charlie and his grandpa were supposed to be the only good and respectful people in the tour, and the movie ruined that, and therefore screwed the whole ending.

I'm sorry, but I will never EVER see another movie with Tom Cruise in it ever again.  He doesn't deserve my patronage, nor anyone else's.  This may keep me from seeing a few good movies (hee hee), but I can live with that.  I could not live with contributing to that idiot's way of life.

well, he's certainly not cryogenically frozen