from the ap daybook:

CHICAGO -- Scheduled motion hearing for singer R. Kelly on child pornography charges. Judge Vincent Gaughan presides. 10 a.m. Criminal courthouse, 26th and California.

i would be there in a hot minute if i didn't have class. damn.

So the G gets an HDTV in her office. We have an HDTV here in the temporary office space, too, but it's kind of a letdown — it's out by the "CyberCafe" (= barstools and a Flavia machine) and is always tuned to CNN. Aside from sipping coffee while pondering what psychological defect could make a normal-seeming woman like Daryn Kagan volunteer to see Rush Limbaugh naked, there's not much entertainment to be had.

Still, the job is not without perks. Today we had to scan some user-submitted letters for objectionable content, which mean we had to make a list of stuff to flag. It's pretty great to be able to say "What about 'cocksucker'?" and have it be greeted as a valuable contribution to the meeting.

just in case you thought i was a tad insane for my dating list of a while back, trust me: there are way worse people out there.

Dates with bad grammar. Yankees fans. Actors. Indecisive dates. ("Where do you want to go?" "I dunno, you?") A man who wears a backpack, or socks with his sandals. A woman who can't give good directions to her house. A man who likes pink drinks. A woman who drives a black Pontiac Grand Am with gold rims. A man who kisses you and says, "Yummy!" A woman who wears a tight leopard-print top.

"Any girl that orders a salad as her meal at dinner," says Koonal Gandhi, 27, who shares a place with Joe Peters in upper Northwest Washington. That's an indication she is "very self-conscious about either how she looks or eating in front of other people."

"I do have one guy who I actually stopped dating 'cause he didn't know what paella was," says Jenn Lee, a pediatrician who used to live in New York and now lives in Sterling. The gap in knowledge was a sign to her, she says, "that the guy wasn't cultured. How could you live in New York for 10 years and not experience paella?"

Denisa Canales has had a number of breakups; one because a guy was allergic to her cats, and one because she didn't trust a guy's pit bull. More recently, she left a guy over a crucial difference of opinion concerning her shoes.

(trust me, the shoes sound hideous.)

nothing really add to the article, except i found it pretty entertaining. that, and there's an anecdote in there about a guy who can't stand people who love mayonnaise. which i find telling, because approximately 80% of guys i've ever dated/liked cannot. stand. mayonnaise. they will visibly shudder at the mention of it. but me? i'm a mayo kind of gal. i'll slather it on anything remotely appropriate. it makes a sandwich that much tastier. you can even make delicious chocolate cakes with it. tommy is one of the people i've dated who hate the stuff, but yet, he manages to put up with me.