Interesting.

Your results:
You are Superman

Superman 70% Batman 65% Spider-Man 60% Hulk 60% Green Lantern 60% Supergirl 55% The Flash 55% Robin 52% Iron Man 45% Wonder Woman 40% Catwoman 35%

You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.

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Your results:
You are Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom 84% Lex Luthor 64% Apocalypse 60% Two-Face 56% Magneto 53% Poison Ivy 46% Catwoman 46% The Joker 45% Dark Phoenix 42% Mr. Freeze 40% Green Goblin 36% Riddler 36% Venom 36% Juggernaut 36% Mystique 32% Kingpin 30%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

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It's Christmas time, again....

... it's time to be nice to the people you can't stand all year
I'm growing tired of all this Christmas cheer.
You people scare me -- please stay away from my home
If you don't wanna get beat down,
Just leave the presents and then leave me alone.

I had an awful time buying presents this year. Basically, I didn't. I'll save my War on Christmas post for some other time, but I just have no Christmas spirit, at all. Never really had one. I got a nice present for my parents and really bad presents for my brothers (just couldn't find the perfect gifts! ugh!). The only person I got really excellent presents for was the Staffer -- strangely, I came across too many perfect presents for him. I ended up buying him three, which is probably three more than I'll get from him, but they were just too good -- they go from good to better to best. I'm leaving them in the living room for him to find when he flies back from SDak on Christmas day (he has to Staff on the 26th).

In other news, it looks like I will finally have a decent New Year's - the Staffer and I will be together for the first New Year's in... years... and Mr. Blair has graciously extended an invitation to his New Year's Eve party. People I love and people I like, all staying up past 9 p.m.! Such a change for the better!

New blog.

I'll admit it, I'm addicted to starting new blogs. It's just so much fun to play with new services, especially now that everything's all 2.0. I'm really enjoying Wordpress, though, and my new blog that is..... http://suedoc.wordpress.com/.

I'm going to keep using this one -- my plan is to have this be my unglamorous, personal, whiny blog, where I talk about dumb things. In other words, "the blog for my mom to read." The Wordpress one is actually going to be really cool. And painfully nerdy.

Bloggers suck.

Seriously, I am beginning to hate the bloggers. Them's CRAZY folk. Sure, the vast majority of them at least pretend to be concerned about Sen. J*'s health for his own sake, at least have that decency. Then there are the freakazoid Republicans who talk about how this is a sign that God doesn't want the "demoRATS" in the majority. (So... he couldn't just rig the election? God has to resort to assassination? Whatever.) On the other extreme flip side, there are scores of liberals talking about how it's probably a "Rethuglican" conspiracy. Swear on my grave, there's even someone suggesting Putin did it.

No more news now then when I went to bed four and a half hours ago. We slept with the Staffer's phone right by the bed and were waken up several times by friends, but no news -- not that anyone would call him personally, but you never know.

And everything was going SO WELL...

This has been a crazy, crazy week. First, at work, it seems like half of our geographically diverse department is in town - the Director and my new manager, both based in DC - a new teammate from CA, and an old teammate from AZ, and coincidentally new people from Tyson's and Delaware were also visiting. So lots of meetings, strategizing, planning, etc.

Then I found out I got an A+ in one of my classes, including an A+ on my 20 page report. Hello, thesis topic.

Hours later, I discovered a $600 charge from Best Buy on my ATM card. Alas, I do not have $600 worth of new toys -- so I am now atm-card-less and can only hope I get my $600 back.

Less than 24 hours after that -- with everyone still in town, driving me bonkers at work -- the Staffer's boss lands in the hospital. This is what is keeping my brain on at 1:35 a.m. The Staffer -- the one most affected by all this -- is sleeping/snoring like a log, go figure. Not that he isn't really, really upset. He's just exhausted. I guess he battled with reporters and cameras all afternoon. At the moment everything he has related to me about the incident has been reported in the press, although it was weird knowing certain things a few hours before they were reported.

It's all very distressing, on so many levels. It's weird for the news to be personal. My first thought was "Oh my god, not T*" - as if I actually knew him. In reality I've only shaken his hand and briefly discussed the relative safety of Northeast DC. My next thought of course is "$#&^%, the Staffer's job..." and then "Oh man, his poor daughter K*" whom I have met a few times -- again, weird to be actually acquainted with the people who are suffering right now. And only after all that do I even begin to think about the damn "balance of power." And quickly block it from my mind, because surely it will be a moot point soon. Right? Ugh.

I should probably try to sleep, I guess. Long day tomorrow -- longer for the Staffer, of course, but I have to plough through my mundane, meaningless job (however dorkily much I love it) and worry about him.

Seriously. There are 99 other senators. Why does this have to happen to OURS?

P.S. Names are blocked out here not to keep anyone from knowing who I'm talking about, because, well, duh, but to circumvent potential gratuitous googling. Because I for one am hitting Google blog search pretty hard, scavaging for gossip. Also, the press has somehow got ahold of the Staffer's cell phone number, which is bizarre, since it's not even technically listed under his name.

Playlist meme.

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...

Opening Credits:
"Finale B" - Rent
Well, that's a depressing start!!!

Waking Up:
"Feed Me (Git It)" - Little Shop of Horrors
Haha, it totally works. I'm always starving in the morning

First Day of School:
"You Get What You Give" - New Radicals
Um, I guess that's a lesson about studying?

Falling in Love:
"Beautiful Night" - Paul McCartney
Awwww.

Fight Song:
"My Life" - Billy Joel
Yeah, I can feel it.

Breaking Up:
"Barbie Girl" - Aqua
Um... not sure how it's applicable...?

Life:
"Changes in Attitudes, Changes in Latitudes" - Jimmy Buffett
That works too.

Mental Breakdown:
"Fernando" - Abba
Yes, I must have been INSANE to put this on my ipod.

Driving:
"Jackass" - Green Day
I do silently yell that at people a lot...

Flashback:
"Dreams" - The Cranberries
This would totally work for a flashback scene.

Getting Back Together:
"I Am Not That" - Michael Nesmith
Seems like more of a breakup song.

Wedding:
"Without You" - My Fair Lady
whoa. That's not a very good wedding!!!

Birth of Child:
"Bad" - Little Shop of Horrors
oh DEAR.

Death Scene:
"Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears
Death by Britney??? I guess there are worse ways to go... maybe...

Al Gore...

is... is... sexy? I'm so confused...!

Christmas.

Just in case, you know, anyone was wondering, not that you would, but IF you happened to be my mom and HAPPENED to be wondering what to get me for christmas, well, IF that were the case, just about anything from this site would send me into spasms of joy.

Where to begin??? For goodness' sake, just start with the earrings! The grapealicious earrings, the cupcake earrings, the BACON AND EGGS earrings, the lego earrings, the fortune cookie earrings, the LEGO HEAD earrings, the vinyl record earrings, THE CASSETTE TAPE earrings, the strawberry earrings, the pie earrings, the soda earrings! THE BURGER AND FRIES EARRINGS, TOO MUCH!

But that is not all, said the cat. Oh no, that is not all.

The watermelon scarf! The rainbow scarf with little clouds on each end! The strawberry knit hat! The cherry scarf! The chocolate dotted bucket hat! The cupcake hat! The overpriced but still adorable boot disk plaque! The jumbo holiday cuties magnet set! The chocolate candy soap set! The Jiffy Mix notebooks! The Absolut salt 'n' pepper shakers! The happy cinnamon bun! The happy bread slice! THE HAPPY TOILET PAPER! THE DISKETTE HANDBAG OMG!!!!! The argyle messenger bag!

I.... I need to go lay down... too much excitement...