auntlada

I started watching the show, but had to stop in the middle of one of Michelle's talking heads. I just can't watch or listen to her. She makes me want to throw things, and I can't afford a new TV. If only it were happening in person so I could tell her to shut up, shut up, shut up. In the little I watched of the show, I was trying to remember what was up. All I could remember is that the Battery is down before the conversation devolved into "Springfield, Springfield."

I looked over the designers' portfolios and have to say that regardless of the outcome of this show, I think Chris March wins because people I recognize were wearing his clothes.

If you vaccinate the chickens, they might develop a neurological disorder.

Oh, I never have been able to run 60 minutes on a treadmill. It had to be outside where there was different stuff to look at and think about. And I probably couldn't do it now because I'm out of shape (and don't have an hour all at one time to exercise anyway). I've been running a mile at lunch, not every day, but when I can. A mile is all I have time for since I have to clean up, get dressed for work again and then find something to eat at my desk.

I'm impressed with anyone who can do any kind of aerobics for 62 minutes. I've never been able to do that, even when I could run for that long. Aerobics was always lots harder for me.

Did they love it or list it? Maybe they were saving to buy a house and didn't want to throw any money into the house they were in, figuring it wasn't worth it. Or maybe that $95,000 isn't really theirs, but is the show's.

I'm rereading this book and came across something that puzzles me. A few days before Claire goes through the stones, the older Scottish man (whose name I can't remember now, but he's the plant guy) takes her out to show her where to find plants and shows her the stones. She walks around touching them and nothing happens. She doesn't even mention hearing anything. It's only a few days before she does go through so shouldn't she at least hear buzzing? Later, it's only close to Samhain, I think, not the actual day, when Jamie takes her to the stones, and she hears buzzing and starts to disappear (he says). It seems like she should have heard something or been bothered by it when she went to look at the plants. I think it was two days before. She went to look at the plants that day, the next day she and Frank went to Loch Ness, and then the third day they watched the women do the ceremony and that night she went back to the stones and went through. (I may need to stop overthinking things.)

I think it was her hipsteryness that I disliked so much. That and the I'm-so-much-cooler-than-everyone-else-see-how-alternative-I-am. Those may be the same thing. I'm not sure. It's the sort of thing I dislike in real life -- usually encountered among college-age people who think they know so much and I know so little even though I've already done the things they're doing and know, among other things, that someday they're going to learn better (I hope because not much is worse than a 50-year-old who still believes that way). (Not to say all college-age people are this way. That's just where I usually encounter the attitude.) So I just don't enjoy watching it on TV unless it's going to get taken down a peg or 200.

You can also do it if you're a child, particularly if you are immersed. My husband was placed in a French school (in France) when he was about 7. He said it was awful for about two months, and then everything clicked. Again, though, Nici wasn't 7 at the Air Force Academy.

You're right, although I think most of the people wearing that look now are also anti-fur, anti-leather, or at least the ones I know -- although admittedly, I don't hang around with a lot of modern hippie types. I think I'm too old for them.

Now that you mention it, when I think of boho or hippie, I do not think of suede. In fact, I usually think of people who won't wear suede. On that note, I find it odd that Heidi is so averse to fur (at least she said so earlier this season that she wouldn't want to wear fur or even fake fur), but she's fine with leather and suede.

A university campus on a football game day or just between classes or at homecoming. The university here does a thing called Walkaround where all the Greek houses decorate and thousands of people walk around the area (thus the name) and look at them. It's packed. Some place like that would be excellent practice because it's so crowded you can hardly move. Also, Walmart (or Target or K-mart or any place similar) on the first Saturday of the month because people just got paid. But don't go too early. You could also try any store or mall the day after Thanksgiving or on the tax-free weekend before school starts, if your state has one.

A tube of Icy Hot or Bengay might work also. I've used it before having to clean out a sewage back-up in a basement bathroom. Nothing really helps a lot, although after a while you notice the smell less. I might have used the u-turn on Jim and Misti and then told them that I didn't want anyone to go out that way, and I knew they wouldn't. Of course, they'd still be mad. The only thing I can think of that Jim might understand is if you just told him, "It's not personal. It's business." He seems like the kind of guy who has watched "The Godfather" a lot and possibly thinks it's the I Ching of business.

I always have a hard time with same-sex teams telling which is which (or learning which is which, really). Usually with mom-daughter or dad-son teams, I can tell because of the obvious age difference, but the mom (Shelley?) does not look that much older than the daughter in this team.

I was afraid that the other teams talking about how strong they were was going to mean they were going to get u-turned.

Oddly, I think many of the designers fit in with what I've been reading about runway shows in general this season. I've read that fringe is in, along with denim and jumpsuits and maxi dresses and a general 1970s look. I'm so excited [/sarcasm]. Of the collections, I liked Kini's best, but there wasn't anything I'd want without altering the style. You just wouldn't have to alter nearly as much as everyone else's stuff. For instance, for me to even consider Amanda's collection, you'd have to make it shorter and less voluminous and use fewer fabrics in each piece and different colors. I hated her collection and thought it was just ugly. Obviously, there are people who like it, but I don't understand a dress that basically makes your body disappear. Well, I mean, if it made parts of my body disappear, that might be OK, but if I were tall and thin like a model, I don't think I'd like it. Also, is Amanda pregnant? Or does she just dress as though she is? I wish she would wear something that looked a little more stylish and less like a potato sack and also maybe brush her hair. I thought Sean's long orange fringe dress look great on the model, but most people would not be able to wear that style or color. Although people in this town (the college's colors are black and orange) might really like it -- except for the part where anyone here with enough money to buy something like that is way too big and probably too old to carry it off.

When I'm running hard, I usually run faster than that (for a few minutes anyway), but if it's faster than 4 mph, I'm running, not walking. Walking faster than 4 mph hurts my shins. Running is easier, even if it looks so slow to passersby that they think I should be walking. It's just an easier motion at that speed. And it doesn't hurt my shins. I'm 5'3", so that probably comes into play.

And she's a few years too young to be a bow head (although even if she weren't, she should have grown out of it by now).

I think it's getting into what Sarah D. Bunting (I think) once called math kudzu.

I once shamelessly stole Carol Burnett's Scarlett O'Hara curtain dress. It's not original to me, but it's the best costume I ever had -- although when I was a kid, my mom made the best witch hats every year out of poster board. My witch hat was always the biggest one at school.

Then you are already faster than all of the women you know personally.

It's that kind of trivia that is taking up space in my brain that could be used by possibly more useful stuff. That, and the lyrics to so many 80s pop songs. I would have sucked at the sandwich thing. Once upon a time, I could have done it easily, but having a child sucked out all my short-term memorization skills.

Didn't Tim and Te Jay say something right away about knowing the answer? Something like, "Oh! I know this!" (Not those exact words.)

This is why I don't like them. It's mostly Jim, but also she lets him treat her this way. In the first episode, he said something about how the roadblock was very important, so he was doing it. Now, he's letting her do something. Also, he reminds me of Colin. I'm waiting for his ox.

One thing I learned in season 4: If you have a choice between "Strong Stomach" and anything else, pick the something else.