I'm 'bout to have me some fun
-- R Kelly

Well I'm surprised that you'd believe
In any thing that comes from me
-- MB 20

I'm going to go outside and use my skills as 1/16th Cherokee indian to do an anti-rain dance. Because I think I'll just curl up and bawl if the Matchbox 20 concert is rained out tonight ---

Y'all keep your fingers crossed and stay by your phone in case security and/or campus police and/or for real police come and take me away for my dance. ("Yeah, they're taking me away")

Amy

Is it possible to drive down the road and look directly at a road sign and not read it? Is it possible to walk past a store in the mall and glance at the door and not read the name?

What I'm getting at is this -- once you learn how to read, is it possible for you to have words right in front of your face and not allow your mind to process them?

Ok, I know that you can be totally zoned out and pretend to read a book or magazine. What I'm talking about is, when you're in your right mind (for some of us that is rare) and you are semi-alert can you look at a piece of paper on your desk and not read at least one or 2 words on it?

Example: While on the phone at my desk, I can't help but look at the mess of papers and words just jump out : "Build Trust, HIPAA Privacy, Surgery, Barnhardt, Nurse recruitment"

It's not that I want to read all this stuff, it just jumps out. Crossing the street if you glance up you read the name of the street to your self, even though you know what street it is. Why is that? Why can't our brains shut off?

Amy

No reply at all
-- Phil Collins

Ok, y'all, since we're having a hard time getting folks to comment here, I thought we'd have a little quiz. I thought up some fun questions and I'm going to answer them, then your turn. Ok? ok!

1. Favorite arcade game?
-- Ms. Pacman

2. Favorite episode(s) of Friends?
-- "The one with the prom video" and "The one where everybody finds out" ( It's the one with "They don't know that we know that they know")

3. Favorite Bon Jovi Song (or any other 80s hair band you chose)
-- Dead or Alive (close race with Livin' on a prayer)

4. Favorite year of your school life K-12?
-- 12 and 10

5. Coolest place you've ever been?
-- The Bahamas, Notre Dame in Paris, Toledo and Madrid Spain

6. Favorite subject in school?
-- History

7. Favorite cartoon as a kid?
-- Smurfs, Alvin and the Chipmunks

8. Cool thing you thought you wanted to be as a kid?
-- Detective

9. Favorite movie?
-- The Wizard of Oz

10. If you could have any job you wanted, what would it be?
-- Sitcom/screenplay writer

Your turn!

=) Amy

we'd sing in the car
drivin' downtown top down
checkin' out the bands on Doheney Avenue
-- Rascal Flatts

I love singing in the car at the top of my lungs. So, Holli has brought up an age old question -- is singing in the car fun and harmless or is it annoying and pathetic??

Option 1, baby, all the way.

I went home this weekend. I had to leave to come to work at 6 a.m. Now, I'm not an earlybird by any means, and would have dozed off without my CDs to which I sang my head off.

Singing in the car is a must. I don't think I know anyone who doesn't do it. You might say you don't, but you know if your favorite song in the whole world (These Dreams by Heart) came on, you'd sing along. Music is the greatest form of expression that there is (at least one of them).

Now, you do have to practice a bit of self control with the singing. First off, you probably don't want to be sitting in a traffic jam on 280 with the windows down screaming "Rag doll, living in a movie". Or maybe you do. I don't know -- just use your common sense.

And, be prepared for the consequences. I had been working here about a month when I ran into a guy that said, "I saw you singing this morning in the deck!" I laughed and said I wasn't surprised. You can't be ashamed if you get caught doing it -- just laugh it off.

My only other advice is to refrain from slapping the steering wheel so much while you're performing your own Divas concert -- that gives you away.

What do you think?

Amy