a bit of comedy for your pleasure

or perhaps more nonsense than anything; I suppose I might be easily amused :)

For one, the News and Observer, for all its roots in Southern propriety, is not so proper as to be above hosting a column lauding a certain article of masculine apparel. Yes, this past week "Check It Out," quite often my favorite part of the paper for its endearing tongue-in-cheekiness, was dedicated to the passing of a beloved and loyal jockstrap (in two segments, mind you).

Moving along, I recently decided that it is absolutely necessary that I take care of the formidable stack of dirty laundry piling up in my room, as my heart quite jumped into my throat one night when I turned out the light to go to bed and for a second thought there was a person crouching in my room, upon seeing the silhouette which darkened my window.

Lastly, I wouldn't be surprised if Cary, North Carolina, is one of the few places in the country where one can go to a movie and choose bewteen nearly a dozen types of beer, four types of gourmet cookies, and red or white wine. Oh and gourmet coffee, of course.

Speaking of the movie, I absolutely loved Pride and Prejudice, even though it departed from the book quite a bit more than I had anticipated (which, to be sure, was not even close to how far off the vast majority of book-inspired movies are). At any rate, lovely movie; bordered on the brink of a level of unlikely romanticism beyond even my taste, but never quite got there, fortunately. I think I would be hard-pressed to find any boy or man who could tolerate it without making fun, and equally pressed to find any girl or woman who wouldn't enjoy it thoroughly.

Annnd my dad has just informed me that I have somehow managed to lock myself out of my bedroom, and that he's having quite a time trying to jimmy it open. Oops.