Just saw Strange Wilderness. Verdict: My god, that was a hilarious movie. Awesome.

Hey Boston folks, book club meeting today at the Thirsty Scholar! Come by even if you haven't read the book or aren't really a member of book club! 1:00!

Also, Alien Nation starring James Caan is my new favorite movie.

I have a confession. For the longest time after reading Beowulf in high school, I thought Grendel was a big old dragon. Then the dragon idea was deflated by "English majors" who apparently have better reading comprehension skills than I. So I then thought Grendel was a big old hairy monster. Imagine my disappointment when watching Beowulf and Grendel and finding out that Grendel was just a lame troll.

Man. My bunny's name isn't as badass anymore.

And, um, wow. That movie was a big old turd. In fact, it is on my list somewhere between the Star Wars prequels and The Mexican, though not winning the Worst Movie Ever award, as that is held by Unbreakable. Inappropriate colloquialisms, unmatching accents, Sarah Polley's wretched "performance," and Grendel peeing on a door for some reason. Ugh. I'd like those two hours of my life back, please.

Anyway, so that happened this weekend (sorry to the folks who saw it Friday, my logistics for seeing it couldn't work until later in the weekend).

But my weekend also involved ice cream filled cupcakes, so I can't complain. Science has proven that they are delicious. And the store has a variety of other pastries that can be injected with soft serve.

Thanks to everyone who had words of wisdom in my last post, sadly,. I don't have time to comment back to y'all, but I feel more comforted. Still embarassed about having a problem I shouldn't have for like 20 years, but maybe if I'm better about watching ye olde salt intake it'll abate by itself.

And I just wanted to add that Westlaw's annotated CFR rocks my world and just saved me from what was potentially going to be hours of work. Yay, Westlaw!

Also, at some point, I need to see Little Miss Sunshine when it hits the theaters around here, and I also need to see the silly scary movie with Kristen Bell. And, um, I kinda want to see The Devil Wears Prada.

So yesterday, recovering from a weekend full of barbequeing and socializing, we rented Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room. It was a really good documentary, I highly recommend it.

Now I'm on a smart-movie kick and want to see Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" sometime soon. Oh, and of course, am also dying to see Snake on a Plane!. Best.Movie.Evar.

What was not the best movie ever was X-Men 3 or whatever it was called. Lame.

Oh, I finally watched the OC season finale. While I am very happy about the way it ended, this was an almost painfully bad episode to watch. Even Volchok was annoying. Next season just has to be better!

We are going to get another bunny sometime, and it will be named "Peanut Butter Cups." And it will love me. Look at this little cutie: cuteness. I think we're teetering on the edge of Crazy Pet People-dom.

Thank You For Smoking is an excellent movie, and I highly recommend it to all of you. Of course, Tivo was still set up to tape Law & Order last night, so I'll have to wait until Sat. for my Veronica Mars fix. Curses!

And, um.... I've discovered West Wing fanfic. *headsmack* I have a problem. Send help. Now I need to watch all the earlier seasons that I've missed.

Billy Madison is on Comedy Central and it's amusing me. Especially seeing this guy from The West Wing as the villan.

So we had an awesome Pre-Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner Extravaganza yesterday that was the best thing ever. Y'all brought some amazing food! Good food, good company... I believe there was some arm wrestling going on (I woke up with my elbow aching and was very confused about that until I remembered the arm wrestling). So I cooked a big old turkey for the first time, and it came out super tasty. That pleases me.

Harry Potter was pretty freakin' awesome on Friday. Very entertaining flick. I'm looking forward to seeing Rent when it comes out, if I can convince anyone to go with me.

So that's that.

Um, ok. So I may have written about this before, but I may not have, so I'm writing it now.

Part of the documentation we need to show Visa for them to cover the accident we had back in June with the rental car is proof that we don't have car insurance. So we have to 1) find a notary, which is going to a pain in the ass, and 2) have them sign something that says we don't have car insurance. Dude! With the power of technology these days, they don't have some sort of system in which they can look us up and see if we have car insurance?

So not worth the hassle. I will always be buying the stupid insurance that the rental car agencies offer. And I really wish we had a car of our own!

In other news, we had a good weekend. The Fabulous 20-something party was indeed quite fabulous. Kudos to P&P for throwing a great shindig! I got to wear my fancy dress and red stripper shoes, and that's what a good Halloween party is all about. I spent Sat. running errands and hauling laundry down Broadway in the middle of our first snow-squall of the season. Of course, yesterday was gorgeous, and would have been much better for hauling said laundry around. But yesterday we did girls' brunch, which was very tasty and good fun.

Tomorrow I do some more Democratic volunteering. It was fun enough last week. I stuffed envelopes and then made some phone calls. I kind of enjoy the calls, I get to use my sauve radio voice.

I'm feeling the urge to watch Harold & Kumar and Dude, Where's My Car again sometime soon. I want some stupid movie goodness. Oh, speaking of stupid movies, Drew bought Night of the Lepus this weekend, which is wretched and wonderful and involves killer bunnies. It was a bad influence on Grendel.

Why, oh why, did I ever doubt Joss? Sure, the concept of "space cowboys" is downright silly, and sure, I'm very skeptical of enjoying any show that takes place in space, but hot damn, Firefly is a good show. Sign me up for Serenity on Friday night!

Went over the Second Circle yesterday for a Firefly marathon. mrs_muffin brought over some cinnamon muffins that must be laced with crack, as they are the best freakin' muffins I've ever had. I'm almost drooling thinking about them right now. We got home in time for our Sunday night cartoons, and I would just like to point out the power of the OC, as it was featured in jokes in both The Simpsons and Family Guy last night. I think the Simpsons won, with the California song playing over a clip of teenagers having fun and getting mugged by Snoopy. Mock all you want, the OC is a Pop Culture Phenomenon.

So, Saturday ayelle put together a fantastically fun outing to Nashoba, for apple picking and wine tasting. And wine purchasing. I left with 4 bottles of wine... Drew got another 4 bottles and a barleywine, I think.

And Friday involved terrorizing the poor bunnies with nail clippings, and then tasty dinner at Christopher's, followed by meeting up with the Neil Gaimen crew for drinks at Grendel's Den.

So that's that, and it's another regular old week at work. Last night I had a horribly vivid dream about Grendel dying. It was very unpleasant and gory.

So, on Saturday, I discovered the awesomeness that is Haymarket. For you non-Bostonites, Haymarket is a big farmers-market-type-thing. It's not really a farmers market per se, but it involves a whole lot of produces that's sold dirt-cheap. It was amazing. Mind blowing, in fact. I picked up a pound of spinach for $1.00, and 4 bunches of parsley for $2.00. All for the bunnies, of course.

We also checked out the street fair in the North End, which was pretty cool. There was music and food, though the best food was the cannoli I had at Modern Pastry. We later went to Waltham to see Broken Flowers, which I tought was funny as all get-out, but that's probably because I took one little scene and continued it in my head, with hilarious consequences. I was silently hysterical for about 15 minutes, which I'm sure was more embarassing for those with me than it was for me.

Yesterday we lazed around, drank some shandies, and watched more Scrubs. I also attempted to make zucchini bread, but I must have done something horribly wrong, as it didn't rise at all. I have a somewhat tasty brick of bread now. I might have to try it again tonight.