i tried to be like grace kelly

I know this is going to sound horrifically lame, but sometimes I absolutely miss not having a job because I miss being able to watch TV. I am going to miss out on a lot of the new Ken Burns series The War because I am working this week and otherwise engaged in other things, and from what I saw tonight, it's absolutely stunning. It made me remember that, in fifth grade, our teacher let us watch parts of The Civil War when we got to talk about that in social studies and I remember taking an insane amount of notes on that.

I switched shifts with my own personal Farmer Ted at work so I could catch Heroes tomorrow. OMG WHO HAS ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. AWESOME COVER.

I totally neglected to mention this beforehand, but my granddad is staying with us for a semi-extended period of time. He arrived Saturday. Pepper has been acting crazy around him, which is odd, 'cause when we went home for Grandma's funeral, we had her over at the house and my granddad was playing with her and everything, but now she just growls and barks at him. I don't think she's used to another person besides the four of us (me, Mom, Dad, and my brother) being here for more than a couple of hours tops.

And: next Tuesday, I am going to see Rihanna live. Crazy, non? But the tickets were $10, and how could I resist that? I'm easy sometimes. So easy.

Dear Heroes:

WHAT THE HELL?!

Sincerely,
Candice

I have been thinking about this off and on for the past couple of days, so I decided that it had to be made into a poll to get an answer.

[Poll #953056]

See, the Petrellis have superpowers. Michael is scary smart and Lincoln is the brute force of the two. And Sam and Dean, well... they have guns with rock salt.

I don't know. I watch too much TV.

I am admittedly obsessing over this blind item. ANYONE HAVE ANY GUESSES? I think that the only two that are making some kind of sense are J.Lo and Jessica Simpson--but even there, there are fallacies. J.Lo has never gone on tour, and Jessica's second album was a flop--she didn't have a real hit record until after Newlyweds premiered and In This Skin came out. Alicia Keys is out of the range too--she had a song on the Men in Black soundtrack. Christina and Britney? Nope, not with the Star Search appearances and MMC. Ashanti could be a possibility, but then, who really cares a whole lot about her (and that's not just my dislike coming through)? Besides, her second album didn't do that well either. Kelly Clarkson? A long, long stretch--but Breakaway was a huge hit. I doubt it. She couldn't have had someone dubbing in her voice during the auditions and such.

ARRRGH.

Anyway: if you like Piz on Veronica Mars, I bring you Chris Lowell's abs, from his tenure on the (brilliant but cancelled) Life As We Know It.

Oh! If you want holiday cards--e-mail me! supersyncspaz7 at gmail.com

And finally: ( Heroes spoilery stuff. )

According to this book, no one cares about this, but I don't care. Surely someone else out there has felt this way.

I am seeking The Perfect Salad.

I've been obsessed with finding a good, big, yummy salad for about a week now. Most of this is due to the fact that I'm worried I'm gonna run out of luck and I'll stop losing weight (I still need new pants, and my check this week was small, so--no pants!), but most of it is also due to the fact that I need to eat more vegetables. It's just common sense now.

I like veggies, actually. I can't stand broccoli, though, because of years of my dad cooking it to the point of limpness. I can tolerate raw broccoli, but steamed makes me feel a little queasy. My favorites are carrots and celery, and if I can, I'll eat red bell peppers by themselves because they are so good.

But the thing is, I can't think of a single place where I could get a big, really good salad that's not doused with those bread crumb thingers and cheese, and all I want is just the vegetables and maybe some chicken or something. In my junior year of high school, I'd get the $1.75 chicken cheese salad and an orange juice, and I'd crumble up my crackers and it was awesome, plus I always had money left over (I sound cheap. God). But those days are gone, and I can't think of a good salad-having place besides McDonald's, and the friggin' salads there are as much as a Big Mac meal or something.

I got to watch Heroes (I taped it last night; was at work), and OH MY GOD THAT LAST SCENE AUUUGH OMGWTF.

So, I watched Studio 60 because everyone's been raving about it since... uh, I don't remember when. It's okay, I think I might have to get more of a feel for it though. I'm not super-familiar with Aaron Sorkin--I've only seen a few episodes of The West Wing and I liked it, and we got to watch part of The American President in senior government, and I liked it, and that's about it. It's kind of like how, prior to Lost, I'd only seen about half of the first season of Felicity and that was all I knew of JJ Abrams.

I had a biology test today, and I think I passed. Well, I kind of sense that I did, but I don't like to seem too certain about it.

There is nothing--nothing!--worse than knowing you could've won front row tickets to a concert if only they'd gone with a trivia contest instead of random drawing. I can clean up shop with trivia, yo. That's how I've won all the free books I've won over the past couple of years. Randomness does not agree with me, and my great internalization of facts and random bits of facts serves me well, meaning that I need to be on Jeopardy and Millionaire soon.

Am I the only one who doesn't get Deal or No Deal? Can someone explain it to me?