Celebrity Hat Trick

Six days ago: Geri Halliwell.

Today: Sir Roger Moore, aka James Bond.


Monday: Kevin Spacey.

I am meeting celebrities at an average rate of once every three days. It's kind of awesome.

I am so immature sometimes.

I know the candidates want people to get out and vote.

I know they want to take advantage of technology to give people as much specific information as possible, ensuring that people will be convinced to go out and vote and that the candidates care about each individual voter's personal concerns.

But did Obama's web team really have to call it "My BO"?

Giggling. I am so immature sometimes.

Romance language-speakers sure like long sentences

Dicen que en el propio original de esta historia se lee que llegando Cide Hamete a escribir este capítulo no le tradujo su intérprete como él le había escrito, que fue un modo de queja que tuvo el moro de sí mismo por haber tomado entre manos una historia tan seca y tan limitada como esta de don Quijote, por parecerle que siempre había de hablar de él y de Sancho, sin osar extenderse a otras digresiones y episodios más graves y más entretenidos; y decía que el ir siempre atenido el entendimiento, la mano y la pluma a escribir de un solo sujeto y hablar por las bocas de pocas personas era un trabajo incomportable, cuyo fruto no redundaba en el de su autor, y que por huir de este inconveniente había usado en la primera parte del artificio de algunas novelas, como fueron la del Curioso impertinente y la del Capitán cautivo, que están como separadas de la historia, puesto que las demás que allí se cuentan son casos sucedidos al mismo don Quijote, que no podían dejar de escribirse.

-El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, Part II, Chapter XLIV

I guess I shouldn't complain, though. I could be doing German, where instead of long sentences, I could be dealing with long words, like Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunter - beamtengesellschaft (Association for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services - I only hyphenated it to make it fit) or Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (A German law dealing with the supervision of the labeling of beef).

Languages are awesome.

Signs I am getting old

So today I got to meet Ginger Spice* from the Spice Girls. She has written a children's series called Ugenia Lavender, and the most recent book in the series just came out, so she was doing a book signing.

I found the whole thing kinda funny for a few reasons. First, there were many people there who were well beyond the target market for the books, and probably had no one in the target market in their lives, but were there to get a book signed anyway. (I was one of them.) Second, the girls who were in the target market for the books were probably far too young to (a) know who Geri Halliwell was and (b) appreciate what it means to have an autographed copy of a book. But Geri was lovely to everyone, so it was nice.

Anyway, my point. I was standing in front of a girl who was in her late teens, early twenties. (I dunno, I'm bad at guessing ages.) When we got closer to the front of the line, I asked her if she could take a photo for me while I was getting my book signed. She turned to her mom and said, "Can you take a photo for this lady?"

I was kind of surprised. Am I old enough to be called "lady"? It's kind of like when they call me "ma'am" at a store. I don't think of myself as "lady" or "ma'am" - perhaps it is because I am still a student - but at 28, maybe I am.

*Ginger Spice is not actually ginger any more, nor is she that sort of strawberry blonde that you see in all of her publicity photos. She's also tiny. But come to think of it, isn't she the one who always wore the massive platform boots in her performances?

I voted today.

And probably not for whom you think.

And no, that doesn't mean McCain.

:)



Edit, 10/2/08, 12:19 am: When I say "I voted today," I mean that I mailed in my absentee ballot, just in case you were wondering.