Round up

Current mood: I'm back!!!!

* Yesterday I got to tour a facility where they process photographic film. D*mn, do we take a lot of pictures(!) and yes, someone really does look at your photos as they are being developed. Keep it clean, people! But the fun part came when we were passing through the storeroom and we encountered an item that I just had to comment on. I asked the manager what the large bags of what appeared to be tiny, tiny condoms had to do with photo processing. He just smiled and let me know that, no, his employees do not need "a lot of very small prophylactics" to do their work, but that they do need finger shields in order to not leave fingerprints behind as they peer at our vacation pics. Who knew?

* I was having a perfectly lovely nap in the sun out by the pool (I love working! Working is fun!) when an evil child had to come and break the peace. I guess it wouldn't have been socially acceptable to yell at the (extremely LOUD, splashy, whiny) child or tell his parent to mind his kid, but I really, really wanted to. Instead, I left in an untanned huff. I don't think they noticed. Ugh.

* Allison Janey will always be my sweet C.J., but I was impressed to hear her convincing version of a shrieking, harpy b*tch. Not tones you heard out of her a lot on The West Wing, but perfectly suited for the cute animated flick, Over the Hedge. Her sound was so different from the dulcet tones she uses in the fake White House that I almost convinced myself that it wasn't her. Good show of range.

* Over the Hedge and Mission Impossible III. This flight pretty much flew by. Hardy har har. I guess they were making up for me having to watch 16 Blocks (Hey - United loves Bruce Willis!) twice in two weeks. Bleah. I'm glad I finally got to see the JAbrams version of MI, but I am so over Tom Cruise. He's not as pretty as he used to be, and he sort of runs funny. Which he seems to do a lot in his movies nowadays.

* Getting up at 4 AM always hurts, no matter the time zone.

* In the land of no cable (my house), I will no longer get to watch World Series of Poker events that I don't understand. (Blind Man's Bluff is fun, but how the heck does the low card game work?) Sadness.

* The people movers at Dulles kind of look like Imperial transporters from Star Wars. It never fails to make me giggle, which is a valuable thing during a time when I'm typically falling-down tired. No (work) travel for a few months, yeah!!!