Sliding

I pass a billboard for a cemetery every day on my way. They show a yellowed photo of a young woman with her name and date of birth and death underneath. Next to the photo it says something like, "Taught 2,082 children how to read." The slogan splashed across the top is "Celebrating Lives Well Lived." While I appreciate the gesture, can a cemetery really celebrate lives? Also, the fact that they are advertising in a very mainstream way kinda creeps me out a little. I suppose it shouldn't, but it DOES! Buy Starbucks, eat at Good Times, listen to KBPI, bury someone or yourself at Fairmont.

The SciFi channel has been showing reruns of "Heroes," and because they are well-versed in the habits of nerdom, they created a mini-series to run this week so us fans would have somewhere handy to turn to for nerd milk because we aren't ready to be weaned yet. The series, "The Lost Room," is pretty ingenious*. It's like "Lost," but with a hotel room instead of an island, and like "Heroes" except instead of people with powers, there are objects with powers. So like instead of meeting new people and discovering that they can generate radiation, or stop time, or fly, you meet eye glasses that stop combustion, combs that stop time, and bus tickets that can send you just outside a podunk town. Let's just say that the main characters in this show are arguably a hotel key and a glass eye.

Did I mention we somehow broke our camera? Yes, we have no more camera. There might have been a moment after it wasn't functioning and before it was broken when we could have taken it to a camera shop and had it fixed. But J apparently...did something. And now it is dead. It's not too devastating, since this same camera purchased several years ago is now several hundred dollars cheaper. Which means we can probably go up a camera grade for the same price. Very exciting. We're planning on holding out until after the holidays, though, to hopefully cash in on some sales. Any camera suggestions? I'm mostly a point and shoot kinda girl, but I like a good macro.

This month is looking like a quick slide into the new year. It starts tonight with the final cooking club of the year (theme: sparkle motion) and doesn't stop until January. At which point it picks up again. Also I'm going to have to get going on all your book suggestions or I'm going to miss my book goal by, like, three books. And how lame would that be?

*ingenious in nerding out.