Bork bork!

Do you like opera? How about the Muppets? Surely, you must love opera + Muppets?

To put a grin on your face today, please check out the Muppet Habenera (from Bizet's Carmen), either on YouTube or at The Opera Tattler. 1 and a half minutes of silliness!

Grumble grumble

The last few nights B has decided not fall asleep until closer to 2am. Adam is exhausted. I am too. B is only sleeping 4 hours a night now and is increasingly awake and needing attention during the day. He still doesn't seem to know I'm any different from anyone else. I figured out that I don't make the bath water warm enough. There was a strange winged bug at the bottom of my oats - ew! - so I dumped all the oats out. This means I couldn't make granola. I am incredibly bored with my job, but can't quit. B is fussy today. My neighborhood is ugly and noisy and not inspiring when I think about taking a walk. The are no good cafes within walking distance. Actually the East Bay is mostly devoid of good lounging cafes. I feel isolated and I'm wondering where my friends are. The whole PhD thing hovers above me and I feel b.a.d. that I'm doing nothing about it.

I think I'm just tired and letting little things get the better of me. But, place, loneliness and being bored with my job keep cropping up.

I'm thinking of going to a movie to cheer myself up. I'd like to go see Tropic Thunder but I'll probably end up seeing the Traveling Pants movie. Hmmm... what about Hellboy II?

On the good side: it's a beautiful day. Bennett is the cutest thing ever, getting cuter by the day. He's getting more facially and vocally expressive.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

I read the first book and bought it for my then 14 yr old cousin. It's a great young adult book. Very enjoyable and so was the first movie. Haven't read book #2, but movie #2 is decidedly ENH. However, it's a delight to be able to see a movie made by a woman about women, women who have more going on in their lives than boys and shopping. Although boys do figure prominently in this film and they are all Nice Guys. And HOT. Diverse and hot. Like the women. It's not a screen full of white people, just mostly white people. And the ladies aren't all sticks. But the men all have six packs. (Snooze. Am I the only woman in the world who really doesn't care for those?)

I also LOVE (lovelovelovelovelove) that Amber Tamblyn's character drops the F-bomb in reference to herself. Oh yeah. She self identifies as a feminist. Woot! But. Yeah, sigh, there's a but. *Spoiler alert* She has a pregnancy scare and.... what NYU attending, self-identifying feminist doesn't know about emergency contraception or Planned Parenthood? Would she just wait it out til her period does or does not come? No. Of course not.

Much of the plot is thin and implausible. I don't know where these women come up with the funds to travel about like they do. The men are all falling at their feet too. I didn't know that many suave, articulate, nice, assertive, and HOT guys when I was 20. But it's a movie and made for girls to dream.

The one huge bummer is the preview for House Bunny and some stupid movie called College before this film. Sigh. Why is college always portrayed as some boneheads booze and boob fantasy? I don't care if House Bunny is making surface jabs at the mass marketing of porn, what with the main character being an "aging" (she's 27) Playboy model, but she turns perfectly attractive interesting women into pink, plastic Maxim models. I love an uplifting makeover film. *Gah!* Just poke my eyes out now.

B came with me. Slept the whole time in his sling. Holding my guy while he sleeps is about the sweetest thing ever.