All this week everyone has been leaning towards the upcoming three day weekend like sunflowers following the sun. Or like pointer dogs--"That way! The three day weekend is that way!"

On Thursday, Carol asked me if we would get off early on Friday, but I didn't know. It isn't a tradition like it is on Good Friday, so I told her not to count on it, but I got in early just in case, and then, about halfway through the morning, went into the Evil Overlord's office to make sheep's eyes at her until she said that we could leave at 2p if the Lord God King of Accounting agreed.

He did not, however. He said we could leave at 3p. Yay! There is nothing better than starting a three day weekend with a half day, it gives an extra kick to the joy.

I thought I would check my bank balance while I was waiting to leave (well, it wasn't as though I was going to kill myself working!) and I saw that I had gotten my tax refund, hooray!

Well, I had decided that when I got my refund, I was going to buy a digital camera, and I knew exactly the one that I wanted. In the latest issue of American Photo Magazine, they had an article on the new Nikon Coolpix 2500, a smaller, instamatic version of the larger Coolpix, but it still has the swiveling lens.

It's lots cheaper, too, $450 instead of the $750 that the Coolpix 4500 costs, but I knew I could find it for cheaper. And I did, a quick search on the web and I found it for less than $300 including shipping!

So I'm getting myself a beautiful new digital camera, we're about to have a three day weekend, and my show doesn't suck, I'm on top of the world!

So, when we were sprung at 3p (woo-hoo!), I decided to go see Spiderman at the AMC.

What a swell movie! Tobey Maguire is aces as the webspinner, and Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dafoe were wonderful as well. Tobey is an actor with such depth that he can really make the dilemmas that the character goes through true to life--a funny thing to say about the problems of a young man who is bitten by a radioactive spider, but I truly believe that there is no reason not to play the emotion for real, no matter what the style of the movie.

I read a review that said that Dafoe acted as though he was slumming, but I didn't get that at all, I mean, he's been working with The Wooster Group for the past thirty years, he doesn't feel as though silliness is beneath him. And that scene with the mirror was an excellent pure acting moment.

Of course, having just spend several days in Raimi-and made it all the more fun to watch. Now, when you are watching a Raimi movie, you look for three things, you look for Ted, you look for Bruce, and you look for the car. The car was easy to find, Uncle Ben was driving it, and I was pretty sure that I saw Ted (but not being a fan of Xena, I didn't recognize him immediately and had to look him up later to be certain), but I did not see Bruce anywhere! I had to totally check the credits to find that he played the ring announcer. He was really good, too! How I missed that chin is beyond me.

My favourite bits were the first Spiderman costume, which was a scream, and the moment when James Franco went into his house, heard a maniacal laugh, and said, "Dad?"

I cannot wait for the sequel.

Then I went home, opened the gate to my alley, and stopped stock still. Was I at the right house? It looked like my house, but it couldn't be! I ran inside, found Cynthia, and said:

My God, have you seen it?"
"Seen what?"
"I don't want to alarm you, but it seems that some crazy insane lunatic burglar rapist serial killer was here, and he cleaned the alley! I mean, I figured that it couldn't be anyone who lived here, there were leaves there from three years ago!"
"And you would be right that it wasn't anyone who lived here, it was my crazy insane lunatic ex-husband."
"He just couldn't stand the sight of that alley for one more second so he got the broom and the dustpan and had a party?"
"So it seems!"

Watched the completely hilarious clip show The Most Outrageous Television Moments last night and just about laughed myself into a coma. The host segments were, of course, unwatchable, but the clips were absolutely hilarious.

"Real or fictional, name a famous Willy."
"Willy the Pooh?"

"'If I can make it there, I'd make it anywhere,' what city are we talking about?"
"Phoenix!"

"What 'Notorious' actress held us 'Spellbound' in her last role as Golde Meier?"
"Tori Spelling?"

"In what country will your husband say the last foreign car he rode in was manufactured?"
"United States?"
"That's not a foreign country."
"Um...Texas!"

"Cuckoo blank."
"Cuckoo, Friend and Ollie!"

"In pop music, complete the name of Madonna's concert tour in 1990, Blonde what?"
"Tart?"

"Name a tradition associated with Christmas?"
"Hanukkah!"

"Name something normally worn only by children."
"Clothes."

"Any part of the body beginning with the letter 'N'."
"Knee!"

"Name an animal with three letters in its name."
"Alligator."

"What will your husband say is his favourite condiment?"
"O, I would say his pool table upstairs, definitely."
"Annette?"
"I never heard that word before neither, so I'll say a karate school!"

"An erection!"
"Things a man gets? Things that excite you?"
"A starched shirt!"
"Things that are stiff?"
"YES!!!"

"Name an article of clothing that children are always losing?"
"Their pants."
"The price of a dozen roses?"
"A dollar seventy-five."
"Besides a bird, something in a bird cage?"
"A hamster."

"Name something people take with them to the beach?"
"Turkey?"
"The first thing you buy in a supermarket?"
"Turkey."
"A food often stuffed?"
"Turkey!"

Then they showed what has always been assumed to be an apocryphal moment of television history, and urban legend, Bob Eubanks has spent the last 25 years saying that it did not, in fact, happen, but he was wrong, it did!

"Girls, where specifically is the weirdest place that you personally, girls, have ever gotten the urge to make whoopee? Olga?"
"Um...(laughs) In the ass!"

And this one I actually remember seeing the first time and have always remembered it. On the old Family Feud, in the final game, Richard asked, "During what month of pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant?" and the contestant answered, "September!" Well, there was much hilarity, and Richard kind of walked around the stage, trying not to crack up, and then they continued. Then he had to ask that same question to the next contestant, and that's when he really lost it, he just couldn't get it out! Finally, he fell to his knees on the floor, squeaking "September!" and could not continue.

It was certainly my favourite game show moment!

Lenten entries missed:

Plum was having some pregnancy-based skin problems, was bored, bored, bored, and found out that she's having a boy!

Today's horoscope:
Your mind and imagination are highly active, with many different ideas popping up. Combine intuition with logic for best results.

One year ago today:
It's like a toothache, you never notice that your teeth don't hurt, you never notice that your elbow is bending and flexing and lifting and moving and not hurting until the day when that is no longer true.

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