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Things I trick myself into thinking are good for me just because it's labeled organic

If you haven’t tried it, you should get some Samuel Smith’s Organic Cider, because

A) it’s frickin’ awesome, and

B) it’s organic AND made from apples, so it has to be good for you. Right?

Also: I’m catching up with you and you make me snort at my desk and weird out my officemate. Also also: I know a half-Filipino boy and white girl couple, but they are not married, don’t play volleyball, don’t go to church, and don’t live in CO. Weird. Also also also: Filipino fast food is disgusting, but in an enjoyable sort of way.  Okay, I’m done covering random sharingtime topics in one post now.

sharingtime:

• Mac and cheese
• Weed
• Beer
• Cigarettes
• That girl who took the certified organic sticker off a banana and put it on herself to entice me to sleep with her
  

Am I getting old and crotchety or just following the wrong people?

I feel like whenever I look at tumblr now I just see people bragging about how interesting and exciting their lives are.  And I think, “Oh yeah!? Well, we just got Rock Band 2 and have been playing in every free waking moment we’ve had since Saturday, so… yeah….”  And then I cry.

Reason #5068 I'm now mostly twittering instead of tumbling

I tried to search for someone’s tumblr with this search engine and got such unsuccessful, garbled results that I laughed out loud.  Then I just googled it with the word ‘tumblr’ and it popped right up.  Yeah.

Post-Oscars report

Every year, I just get worse at this.  So, on to the rundown.

We were aiming to be on the carpet early-ish, but apparently more people drove like plebeians this year than usual, so the car line was quite long.  Once we got out of the car, my main goal was to find my interns and say hi, because they had bleachers seats.  So I spent most of the red carpet staring in the opposite direction of everyone else— I’m scanning the bleachers crowd while everyone else is looking at the press line.  I never did find them.  We walked in with Brian Grazer (woohoo) and Seth Rogen, who we continued to see throughout the night (my friend had a great chat with him about his velvet tux).  Seth, which you could probably tell if you watched, is in amazing shape— no more belly!  And he drank an Amstel Light straight from the can, which was great.  Also saw the boy from The Reader whose name I don’t know right at the top, he was fresh-faced and adorable.  Our closes encounter on the red carpet was with Beyonce, who came out of the press line and across to the bleachers to sign autographs, and of course she looked amazing.  Saw Dominic Cooper several times along the carpet, though I’m not sure anyone else knew who he was and I’m not really a fan.  But cute enough I guess, in a weaselly sort of way.  Our weirdest red carpet moment was when Robert Osbourne (who does the miked announcements on the carpet, kind of just for the bleachers) said, “And here’s Robert Pattinson.” The weird things:

1) Robert Osbourne saying those words made this TCM freak die a little inside.

2) The fans— that is, the girls— in the bleachers freaking out, kind of understandable, a lot of them were in their teens or early twenties.

3) The woman standing next to me, who was easily 35, lost her mind.  Her knees literally went weak, she screamed, and starting tearing around trying to get closer to him.  For George Clooney, this might be acceptable.  For anyone over 15 to do this about an unwashed little boy— not so much.

So that was the red carpet.  Apparently husband and I showed up for a flash behind Pattinson while he was being interviewed by Seacrest, and then again a few minutes later on ABC in some carpet-sweeping shots.  We went into the lobby where I successfully snagged a free glass of champagne, and watched people come in.  I spotted Brian Unger doing the exact same thing and knew he was there for NPR (we all know by now that I am precisely this nerdy), so for the first time, I talked to a stranger at the Oscars.  He was very nice, Steve Proffitt was with him, and I gave them some advice about what to do during the show.  So fun.  Other than that, we stood by the people from Departures as well as by Jeff Zucker, neither of which is very thrilling I suppose.  We saw people we see all the time, like Ed Begley Jr. and George Takei.  Yes, the Oscars can be this exciting.  Sean Penn and Philip Seymour Hoffman slipped by, both of whom we saw more of later in the evening.  I’m told PSH was not wearing a cap while he was in his seat and on camera, but all the times I saw him he had a black knit cap on his head.  Weird.  Sean Penn was… happy.  It was odd.  But great.  Seriously— in the bar, chatting with strangers, all smiles, and this was all before he won.  Maybe he had a feeling it was his night.

We went to our seats for the start of the show.  Hugh’s number played great in the room, so hopefully everyone at home enjoyed it too.  He talked during the commercial breaks, told a story about his dad, he was really just great.  Since they kept all of us in the dark about the details of the show, the way they presented the acting awards was a complete surprise and I was not the only one around who got a little teary.  Come on, Eva Marie Saint!  That was great.

We went down to the bar for most of the show, and tallied up sightings.  It always gets to be a blur, but highlights were Seal stopping by and touching my husband (who’s a fan, so that was cool- we then saw Heidi later on wearing Seal’s jacket- adorable), witnessing some Seth Rogen awesomeness, seeing Daniel Craig briefly, the Sean Penn gregariousness, seeing Brad Pitt come in and out of the bathroom (I’m not a Brad Pitt girl, but I will freely admit that the man is beautiful).  Peter Gabriel was at the bar for a bit, being cool.  Caught glimpses of SJP, Leslie Mann, James Franco, Viola Davis, and lots of Michael Shannon.  Also Anne Hathaway, Kate Winslet, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Mickey Rourke, Ben Kingsley, Frank Langella, Prince, Zac Efron and Alicia Keys.  We hadn’t been watching the show so we were very confused about who Alicia was and why she wasn’t Vanessa Hudgens.  I try to keep up with these things to stay cool with my nieces.

I watched the guest of a friend hit on Evan Rachel Wood, who was not in her seat for most of the night.  I didn’t recognize her.  Because I am not cool, despite what I just said about trying.

My dad was a seat-filler this year and got to sit down front for a good amount of the show and seemed to enjoy himself, though he didn’t recognize anyone around him really.

I heard a story this morning about a co-worker’s daughter at the end of the show, sticking her hand out to get a shake from Robert Pattinson.  He in turn brought her in for a hug and a smile (the girl is gorgeous and looks older than her true 17).  She froze, then proceeded to disappear and come back 5 minutes later, still shaken and a little tear-stained.  I still don’t get it about him, but it’s cute when it’s a 17-year-old girl and a sweet unprompted gesture on Pattinson’s part.

I think that’s all I’ve got at the moment, I know I’ve missed people as always, though I would say more nominees stayed in their seats because of the re-arranged seating, they certainly looked a little more trapped than usual.  The show seemed like it was fun, I can’t wait to watch and see if I catch a glimpse of my dad!