I Like Hot Cocoa

My Sickbed

Don't let the smile fool you--I was feeling like crap, just getting over the worst of my week-long illness. All I could bring myself to do was sit on the couch and watch hours upon hours of Law & Order. Really--it's my healing regimen. I guess the cats thought that what I really needed was to be smothered to death. (There are four here. . . Sam's hiding by my feet under the blanket.) Shortly after this was taken I began flinging them around the room in fear for my life.

Convo Between Two Procrastinators on Deadline

Me: goddamnit i have had all day to write this article and i still have ONE line on the page. what the eff is WRONG with me??
Me: I'm gonna pout now.
Erin: I'm also pouting.
Me: good! we can have a pouting party. where we sit around and pout.
Erin: sounds like a great time! I'll bring the beer!
Me: sweet! I'll bring the melancholy!
Erin: mmm melancholy and alcohol. nothing tastes sweeter.

And Now for Observations Made in the Last Five Minutes

1. Drinking hot beverages is the only way to not die in pain from my throat feeling like I swallowed a porcupine followed by sandpaper followed by nail-polish remover followed by fire.
2. I can always tell when Frank's home because Cheese Doodles magically appear in the pantry.
3. Sitting in my desk chair staring at the wall is ten times more interesting than writing my article.
4. I am the worst procrastinator in the history of the world.

A Random Synopsis of the Last Few Weeks

I've been super busy lately and therefore I am not maintaining my personal blog (i.e. this one) nearly as often as I'd like. Here are a few updates in bullet-point fashion if any of my loyal readership is at all interested:

• I covered Super Tuesday by speaking with like, 30 Obama supporters, when all I needed was ONE Hillary supporter. (Read story here.)
  
• Last Saturday I went to New Jersey to spend the afternoon with my Gram. That was good. Sometimes it feels really good to get out of the city. Though the suburbs do scare me. A lot.
• Mitch moved into a new apartment over the weekend and out of the rathole he got stuck with after the fire. Thank goodness.
• My internship at ABC rocks. And I can't say anything more about it or Disney will sue the pants off me.
• I registered a Web site. . . . Soon, you'll be able to check out this blog, and everything else on earth I have any control over, on www.kathrynlurie.com. But not yet. I have to make it first. Funny how that works.
• Leonard Nimoy was at school on Thursday to observe the Journalistic Judgment class, which I am not in. I did see him wandering around the school a bit afterward though. He's one of the founding benefactors of my school. Which makes him super cool in my book.
• Just in time for the Oscars next weekend, I have finally completed the viewing of the last of the films that are nominated for Best Picture (a personal tradition going back years and years). I will write my own little one-line predictions in another post.
• I have been pretty ill all weekend and I'm currently trying to will myself into writing my Craft piece for tomorrow. I can't exactly talk because my throat is raw from this crazy severe coughing and near-retching for the past 48 hours. Fun times.

Will.i.am Rocks Too.

Michael Campion Pretty Much Rocks

Eeeasy, Marc Jacobs

with your crazy ass shoes.

Free PB&J!

Found this as I was perusing the "free" section of Craigslist (click to enlarge):

I Swear I'll Do It

I'm having one of those can-I-get-away-with-killing-all-my-cats-without-
PETA-hunting-me-down? moments.

Prozac Nation

So, the United States scored 23 on a weird, vague list of the World's Happiest Countries. Number One on the list? Denmark. I'm sure it has something to do with the Little Mermaid statue.

Curious about how happy YOU really are?? Take ABC.com's happiness quiz.

Don't Know Why

...the passing of Heath Ledger is bothering me so much. But it is.

Let's Go To the Movies

I've been going to see lots of movies lately (what with my break from school), which (if there's popcorn) may be my favorite activity of all time. Here are a few I've seen and my teensy-weensy review for each..

Enchanted
Love, love, love Amy Adams. It did a great job of spoofing the treacly Disney love stories. Plus, it had my husband, Dr. McDreamy in it. What more could a girl want?

No Country For Old Men
Subtle, terrific acting--I was a pretty big fan until the ending, which, frankly, I thought blew. According to friends who have read the book, the ending is a better fit in the book, and there was a subplot missing in the movie which would have qualified it a little better.

I Am Legend
As a good friend of mine said, "If the world's gonna end, I want to be in the same city as Will Smith." In Smith I trust to save us all. Seriously, though, thought he was fantastic. And seeing Manhattan in ruins was icing on the cake.

Sweeney Todd
Johnny Depp can do no wrong in my book. Though she had an endearingly high, mousy voice, Helena Bonham Carter was difficult to understand when she sang. Tim Burton is a genius. I've never seen London so dreary and otherworldly. It was really beautifully done all around.

The Orphanage
This is a Spanish film by a new director, but produced by Guillermo del Toro (who directed Pan's Labyrinth, one of the best movies out there). This movie was great--it was a scary movie but not in a gory way (well, with the exception of one scene). It took a more classic approach--it depended on a things-that-go-bump-in-the-night element, and it was really effective. Interesting story, too.

Juno
This has been getting rave reviews. I liked it, but didn't absolutely adore it like a lot of people seem to. I saw it with Mike who rightly said that it seemed like the Juno character was almost too witty. She was, after all, 16, and pregnant. I liked Ellen Page, though, and the rest of the cast was great. I especially liked the Jennifer Garner character--she was very sympathetic and believable. . . and the movie was fun and entertaining. I definitely enjoyed it.

Atonement
It's been winning all kinds of awards and I am not anti-Kiera Knightley, but this movie just didn't do it for me. That's all for this one.

Swiss Invasion

My Swiss friends Mario and Martin came to New York to celebrate the beginning of the new year. When they weren't busy shopping (and oh how they shopped), here are some of the things we did..

We spent New Year's Eve on the Brooklyn Bridge with champagne.

The Swiss guys ate like Americans..

Cecilli and Mario had a very intense arm wrestling session.

The guys' first NYC cab ride.

On Fifth--heading toward the Apple store--AGAIN.

Went to see the tree at Rockefeller Plaza, of course..

And we spent some time in Central Park.

Updates to Come!

In the meantime, enjoy this very cute clip.

Holidaze

It's been an up-and-down few days. I'm glad to be home.

YES!

I just got offered the internship at ABC News. As a few of you know, I have been keeping my fingers crossed for this for weeks. Sweeeeeeet.

Done!!

One semester down . . . two more to go. Hooray!

And So It Goes

The kids upstairs are roller skating again. AND they're, like, moving a dining room table from one side of the room to the other. Or something. Whatever it is it's FREAKING LOUD.

We're Not Crazy. Really.

But we did shave the cats. When there are five, there are very few alternatives.