Just For Fancy Musings of a self-proclaimed Fancy-Pants.

…may stay mainly on the plain, but the rain in France seems to hover over the mountains here in the Ardèche. It has been raining more or less solidly since I arrived on Friday evening, and there is no hope in sight. We’ve enjoyed about three or four hours without pelting precipitation in [...]

Somehow, it’s all happening this week. A birthday lunch yesterday turned into an impromptu afternoon at Six Flags, riding roller coasters and getting drenched in the flume ride (which, in the 95+ degree heat, was just fine), and then segued into an evening spent not doing any of the tasks I had set myself [...]

Saw it yesterday, and it gets the thumbs up, even if the Afghani-based subplot is really poorly executed. Terrence Howard and Gwynneth Paltrow are excellent, and Robert Downy really made the whole film. He steals every scene.
I can’t wait to see what he does with Tropic Thunder:

I know who I am! I’m [...]

“It’s practically standing still now. They’ve dropped ropes out of the nose of the ship; and, uh, they’ve been taken a hold of down on the field by a number of men. It’s starting to rain again; it’s—the rain had, uh, slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding [...]

So, here I am, smack in the middle of my 30s, and suddenly 90% of the women I know and count as friends are in some state of recent, current, or potential (hopeful?) pregnancy. It’s a baby boom. I can’t deny that it has started me thinking about my own reproductive status (or [...]

i walk, delightingin the green grass smell ofsummer saturday.