Not a play, this time. Results to be posted really soon now.

The New York Times Magazine has a great interview with Judd Apatow here.

Want to write an idyll? Looks like a pretty broad form.

Sears.com told me that my dishwasher would arrive between 9:15 and 11:15 this morning. The deliverymen, handsome and gleaming, were here at 9:20. By 9:30 they'd trucked the old one out to the curb (bags of cookies in hands for the favor) and departed.

I've wanted a dishwasher for a long, long time. The one we had before stood between our sink and our utility pantry/stairwell and was a glorified butcher block, as we picked it up from the side of the road one day and it never worked, unless you consider leaky water all over the kitchen floor effective as a cleaning agent, which I don't. Plus, a piece of its chrome trim stuck out from the door and always jabbed me in the butt when I'd reach for the cat food or a mop.

Ahh, our beautiful new energy-safe appliance. Sweet, white, cleansing priestess. I unwrapped her with the care one takes to disrobe a virgin. Removed the styrofoam cubes from her dish racks. Peeled off her protective film with a sultry thwwoooooooorg sound that made me tingle. I'd already swept and mopped where she now stands invitingly.

Pushing her buttons, I start my first load at the stroke of 10:05 and as she came to life she purred, a snow lion cub, roused and ready to feed. Monstro pricked up at the tone and I felt my pulse throb in my chest, alive with the sound of it.

today I ordered an 18″ portable dishwasher from Sears.com, on sale, with a mail-in rebate to cover delivery charges. bye bye, dishpan hands! woo hoo!

what kind of dishwasher soap are y'all using these days? is seventh generation any good? i find their toilet paper to be a mite rough but the benefits outweigh the cons and besides, Monstro hasn't complained yet. the seventh generation dish soap is weak but OK, and Nicki and Emily rave about the bathroom cleaner, which they say is NOT smelly. that lysol tub-and-tile stuff makes me want to hurl from the bottom of my soul.

I've watched 58 minutes of “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” tonight and there's been NO Matt and Danny: NO Matthew Perry and NO Bradley Whitford. So I ask you, my viewing public: What the Frakking Frak?

It's 12:30 in the afternoon and I'm still in my nightgown. The season finale of LOST is from 9-11 p.m. tonight. Monstro came home late last night and I was awake to greet him after his “why are you still up?”I shrugged and said, “I missed you,” but the unspoken part of that was that I was mourning the loss of Tiny Blonde One. Baby woke up at seven ay-em and it was my turn to get up with him, so I tended his needs for 90 minutes until Monstro burst forth and offered to watch him so I could get more sleep. Bliss. I think I woke up every three minutes last night, and compounded by a seven o'clock wake up call, I was a hurtin' machine.

Julie, the episodes were really good; I think Kristen Bell has energy that others of us only dream of. She is a good argument for vegetarianism and I rarely seek out those arguments. I'm still chuckling over VM's euphamism: Gettin' familiar. The Rob Thomas crack was hilarious, too.

Monstro is off to the Post Office to send out the Tau city he's been working on for five weeks. It looks great. I love how he can re-purpose Chinese food delivery containers into an airbase. The pieces have a beige/orange/turquoise vibe that I picture Cameron Diaz wearing while she's hanging out with someone fabulous.

I have to run to the basement to get the clean towels out of the dryer — we can't use the “high heat” setting because it makes our clothes smell like rubber hose, so we're always stuck doing two dryer-cycles on “low”, which always makes me finish laundry too late at night to go get — then I can get out of my nightgown, shower, and put on some of the Wal-Mart designer clothes I bought yesterday (no joke!).

Please do note that I only go to Wal-Mart twice a year and each time I spend less than $100.

Oh, and happy summer vacation to Katherine who QUIT HER JOB of 10+ years. Whoo!!!

Just watched the last two episodes of “Veronica Mars” and my seethe has soothed to resigned head-hangedness. People have said that it's slipped but it's still the most thought-provoking “teen” stories out there. I mean, One Tree Hill? Smallville? Who the h*ll cares? And that Chad Michael Murray guy is a disgusting horn dog.

So, eew. No more Daddy (Sheriff!) Mars, Mac, Wallace, heck, even Logan and Piz. In its place? The Pussycat Dolls.

I think I'll go barf and then rest my weary soul with the Eschaton episode in Infinite Jest. Oh, and I hope Dawn Ostroff gets scabies.

I've never been tagged with a meme, and so I suppose it's appropriate that my first tagger is none other than Monstro.

The meme:
1. Add a direct link to your post below the name of the person who tagged you. Include the city/state and country you’re in.
Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Olivia (London, England)
ML (Utah, USA)
Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
Andi (Dallas [ish], Texas, United States)
Todd (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
miss kendra (los angeles, california, u.s.a)
Jiggs Casey (Berkeley, CA, USA! USA! USA!)
Tits McGee (New England, USA)
Kat (Ontario, Canada)
Cheezy (London, England)
Paula (Orange County, California, U.S.)
Jeff (Colorado, USA)
Fringes (around Houston, US)
Monstro D. Whale (New England, MA)
Motormouth (New England, MA)

2. List your top five local eating places.

OK. Moshi Moshi, because we just dropped a hundred bucks on lunch there Saturday and if you're gonna eat like you're rich, you might as well do it there.

Big Y supermarket will steam live lobsters for you and the cost is considerably less than Moshi Moshi.

Hmm, now it's getting tougher. OK: Burger King (I'm a slave to the Whopper Jr. with extra pickles), anyplace with a play area, and La Victoria Taqueria in San Jose (because New England is just a state of mind). That was hard.

3. (I'm adding here, because a one-question meme seems, well, lame)

List your top five favorite eating places from childhood:

Spenger's, Buttercup Pantry, Nation's Giant Hamburgers, the Italian place on Clayton Road we used to go to, and Skipolini's Pizza. That was easy!

4. Tag five people and let them know they've been tagged:

Anne

Ms. Strega

HeisseScheisse

Steve Sloan

Comtesse Lefty