Facebook

Arrgh!@ I had a whole post here, and now it is gone, gone, gone.

Basically... I finally succumbed to the power of my friend Naty and joined Facebook. I have been very anti-that-sort-of-thing for quite a while (especially due to the preponderance of myspace, and all the 20somethings with 5 million friends, all of whom they've never met) but she convinced me. See, she lives in Ithaca, NY now.. .and I don't see her so much. (obviously) She uses it to upload pictures, rather than send them out in emails all the time; and I get that. So, now I'm there, I can see her pictures, and I think I have 7 friends! (all of which I know in real life)

I also had a very weird dream last night involving my best friend, her baby and husband, a cougar (who understood and obeyed French) and the brother of a former friend of mine. Oh, and a shopping mall. No celebrities this time though!

Juno

What a great movie! (and, I finally got out of the house! YEA!) The writing is really fantastic; I love the dialogue, and endless making up of new words and phrasage. There were some really nice and surprising moments too; like when her stepmom goes off on the obnoxious ultrasound tech. All around, a very clever film.

There have been some jokes about how if this was a film about a black teenager getting pregnant, it wouldn't have received all the accolades and praise... but I don't think that's necessarily true. It would have been a different story, IMO; since most films of that nature usually take place in the ghetto, with gangsters, and mymomwasalreadyateenmom backgrounds (if we're looking at stereotypes here, which I think those people with criticism are). This was just in the suburbs, with semi-hip middle class teenagers; and it was very good. So, yeah. (and who wasn't in this movie? Jennifer Garner? check. Jason Bateman? check. Rainn Wilson? check. Alison Janney? check. Laci Chambers? check. seriously!)