alright, people. this TomCat business has got to stop, mostly for the fact that it is obviously based on the nickname for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, aka the Two Freakiest People on earth. tommy and i are nothing like cruise and holmes - in fact, in nearly every way, we are the exact opposite. witness:

1. tom cruise is the scientologistest of all scientologists. tom lee is on a crazed mission to end scientology.
2. i am not a zombie child-bride-to-be.
3. nor am i pregnant, but if i WERE to get pregnant, it would be done the old-fashioned way, and not with a turkey baster full of scientology love. plus, tommy is comfortable enough with his heterosexuality without having to go impregnate ladies all over the place to prove it. he has his sidekick phone, after all, and if that does not scream hetero, i do not know what does.
4. when tommy helps me celebrate my birthday, he does not do with the creepiest-ever idea, a private FAO schwartz toy store visit, including giant cupcakes and a reenactment of the floor piano key scene from "big." the hell?!?!
5. if i had costarred with christian bale, you can bet i a) would not have ended up w/ tom cruise b) would have hit that.
6. we do not have 25 jamillion dollars.
7. etc.

we can discuss all other reasons this evening. see you tonight!

it's always fun to look back a year when you're in desperate need of blog content, isn't it? and so i look back to last december and see that around this time we were....

doing exactly the same thing that we will be doing tonight! with pics! (and some from mssr nye.) we are nothing if not predictable.

i also find it strange that i was sweating grad school applications this time last year. that seriously seems like about a billion eons ago. and has it really only been a year since dance dance revolution came into my life?

Okay, so perhaps — perhaps! — this is not the greatest photo ever, but it reveals a pretty great thing: there is a big fucking crane in our alley, and it's here to put a new heat pump on our roof. Rock. The age of constantly popping circuit breakers ("the space heater era") may be drawing to a close.

TOTALLY UNRELATED WHINING: Who thought it was a good idea to make OS X Firefox not tab through non-text form fields? An idiot, that's who. Also: what's up with the unreliable home key? It's apple-left most of the time, but in Adium and other apps it's function-left. Interface genius my ass.