So, last Thursday, I was watching CSI, and then something happened: George Eads turns up with a pornstache. WHAT?!?! A pornstache? My first question was "When the hell did this happen?" I just watched the show the week before and his face was clean, no dirt smudges (which is what this moustache looks like). My second question was "Why in the world did he think that would look good on him?" He looks like a used car salesman or a rifle-toting-redneck. Someone needs to stand up to the man. MR. EADS, PLEASE WIPE THAT DIRT OFF YOUR FACE. It's almost as bad as when Alyssa Milano cut her hair in season 6 of Charmed. I can't find a picture of it yet, but no doubt some will show up sooner or later. Oh man, it's bad. Current music: "Feel it" by the Black-Eyed Peas

No, seriously, I don't like level six. I think I just don't like the icon for it, and that makes me want to change hella bad. Who is it on the icon, Shirley Temple? I can't stand her. Blech. Another fine day of acting from Eric Martsolf (Ethan) on Passions yesterday. He blinks with such emotion. It almost brought me to tears. I haven't watched today's episode yet, but I'm sure he'll turn out even more good acting. Keep your fingers crossed! I'm running out of witty things to say about Passions, so I'll leave it at that. ********************* Current Music: "Mexico" by James Taylor

So, Eric Martsolf has been doing his best acting ever since he's been on Passions. Which, if you've been watching lately, you'd know that all he's been doing is laying in a hospital bed all comatose and stuff. GREAT acting on his part. I was even moved when he started convusling. I was moved to start laughing. If they don't do something about his acting, I might stop watching. Actually, I might stop watching only if Jessica marries Spike. Speaking of Jessica, I'm getting awfully tired of her being with Spike. It's just not that believable anymore. I hope she is the one who's been killing her tricks, so that she'll get put in jail and we won't have to see her anymore. I wish they would feature the Simone-as-lesbian storyline some more. I really like it and I think we could explore Simone's character more. The actress who plays her is actually not bad, and I think they should showcase her more. On a personal note, I finally got registered for classes next semester. I won't get to graduate next semester, as I'd planned, but it should be an interesting semester, to say the least. I have Writing Spanish and Spanish Conversation & Diction on Mondays and Wednesdays, and on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, I have French Revolution & Napoleon (another French history class - as if I needed another one!), Spanish Grammar, and on Tuesday evenings I have (French) Modern Short Narratives. Plus, I might have flute choir on Monday evenings. Busy, busy, busy. That's it for now. ******************* Current Music: "Goodbye Love" from Rent

I knew my level-upping was too good to be true. That bug that happens with the site must be responsible for it. Why couldn't it have just stayed?! Anyway, I'm going to watch the sun rise.

I was just at Level 6, 40% yesterday. That one blog post with all the pictures must have boosted me up something spectacular. Not that I'm complaining... Current music: "Simple Kind of Life" by No Doubt... yes, I do listen to other stuff besides Broadway show tunes.

I'm really bored, and I go to work in about 45 minutes, so I thought I'd do an inventory of pictures on my computer. No, really, there's a high school named Wang High School, in Queens, New York. Seriously. I saw it in a book. Some book I read in high school was published there. It became an inside joke with members of the Academic Super Bowl team... yeah, I know, I'm a total geek... Mmmmm, ratatouille. A lovely dish from the south of France comprised of garlic, tomatoes, zuchinni, eggplant and peppers, along with various herbs and spices. Yes, it looks like what you scrape up from the bottom of the garbage can or garbage disposal, but man, it's good. Honest. One of the two Bush pictures that will be featured. It just looks like he's saying "Oh, gosh, ol' Dickey Cheney, you got me good that time!" The other Bush picture. In this one, he's saying "RICO... SUAVE..." You see, he's just seen Condi Rice in those hooker boots she wore in Germany. I wish I had picture of that. She looks like a ho. I mean, National Security Advisor... The logo from one of my favorite B'way shows. Yay. Didn't know how acid rain was formed before? Well, now you do. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I'm a proud member of the Nation of Esperanto. Actually, I only know how to say "My father is at the club today" and "That bird is blue," but, we are a strong nation. Mia patro estas ce la klubo hondiau. I heard somewhere that if you doodle, that means you've done too many drugs. I doodled this while talking on the phone with a friend. I don't think I was paying too much attention to them. I was more interested in making sure the nose curved the way I wanted. This face kind of looks like one of my French profs... I took that there gorram picture all by my lonesome. I took the picture, developed the film and picture all by myself. No, really, I took a photography class in high school. Kinda artsy-fartsy, huh? Vive le gnome! There's a garden-gnome Liberation Front in France. Did you know that? I don't have their website address on hand, but if you're interested in the cause, just e-mail me or something. Because, you know, those gnomes need their freedom. I couldn't help but post Norber again. My GOD, he's hot. Lord help me if I ever get to lay hands on that man... This concludes our tour of the pictures on my hard drive. Please, feel free to peruse them at will. Just keep your hands off Norbert. He's mine. Shiny.

I'm a HUGE Broadway buff, and I've seen a lot of "Top *insert number here*" lists around. So, to kind of give in to peer pressure, I thought I'd do a list of my favorite Broadway shows. Dorky, huh? No need to tell me. We'll make it a Top 15 list, just to kind of lop it off before I get too into it. 15. Cats - The ONLY reason I'm putting this in is because it was the first show I ever saw. And I absolutely love Betty Buckley. But those are the only reasons. I swear. 14. Chicago - This show had three of the best people to ever grace a Broadway stage - Gwen Verdon as Roxie Hart, Chita Rivera as Velma Kelly, and the wonderful Jerry Orbach as Billy Flynn. And, even though Richard Gere did a bang-up job as Billy in the movie version of the show, he doesn't even hold a candle to Jerry Orbach. 13. Hairspray - Big hair, big outfits, big egos, and a big fat guy dressed as a woman. This show was great. It didn't hurt, either, that Matthew Morrison was in it. Yum! 12. Cabaret - Joel Grey is fabulous as the Emcee. The music, by John Kander, and the lyrics by Fred Ebb, just go so well together. I love its darkness and its irreverence. It's just a great show. 11. Sweeney Todd - Now a revival on Broadway, this show by Stephen Sondheim is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen. A local theatre in Indianapolis did this show over the summer and they did a great job. Who doesn't love a musical about a serial murderer and his friend who turns the bodies into meat pies and sells them to the people in London? Great show. The Nitty-Gritty - The Top Ten 10. La Cage aux Folles - This is what the movie "The Birdcage" is based on. Actually, I think it first started out as a French movie (which is just as funny as all its other reincarnations), then it went to musical, and then the American movie. Anyway, it has George Hearn in it, and he's awesome. Plus, all those drag queens. Who doesn't love a drag queen? 09. Jesus Christ Superstar - This show is so moving. You can't help but understand why Judas betrayed Jesus, and you can't help but feel what Mary Magdalene feels for Jesus. Plus, it has some of the greatest lines in Broadway: From "Heaven on Their Minds" - Nazareth, your famous son should have stayed a great unknown, like his father carving wood, he'd have made good, table, chair and oaken chest would have suited Jesus best, he'd have caused nobody harm, no one alarm. From "I Don't Know How to Love Him" - Should I bring him down? Should I scream and shout? Should I speak of love? Let my feelings out? I never thought I'd come to this. What's it all about? From "Superstar" - Every time I look at you I don't understand, why you let the things you did get so out of hand, you'd have manage better if you'd had it planned I think what I like most about it is that I've never seen the Jesus story from this point of view. I love this show. 08. Rent - Another moving show, with a moving story to go along. Jonathon Larson, the man who wrote the music and lyrics, died just before the show debuted on Broadway. Plus, it's coming out in movie theatres in November, and I can't wait to see it. "No day but today." 07. Les Misérables - Every time I hear "One Day More," I break into tears. Man, I'd positively kill to see this show, especially if it were Colm Wilkinson who were playing Jean Valjean. Oh man, this is a great show. 06. Miss Saigon - Another show that I'd die to see. It's by the same people who did Les Mis, and it has this giant helicopter that comes on the stage. Oh man, I've seen only clips of this show, but I almost cried. 05. Monty Python's SPAMALOT - Hil-freaking-arious. Seriously. "You don't succeed on Broadway if you don't have any Jews." That's just hilarious. And "His Name is Lancelot" is quite possibly the funniest I've ever heard. And Sara Ramirez can SING. 04. Into The Woods - This show is almost like an appropriation of every fairy tale in the book, but they keep their morals, while Stephen Sondheim adds a couple more - "Children Will Listen" and "No One is Alone," which are also some of my all-time favorite songs. 03. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - I think I like this one because I was that nerdy kid who took spelling bees as seriously as a heart attack. Plus, I love the "I Love You Song" and "Pandemonium." They're great songs. 02. The Phantom of the Opera - "You never forget your first time." Wow, is that true. Just listening to the CDs give me goosebumps. I love Michael Crawford in this show. I'll never understand why Christine chooses Raoul over the Phantom, but it makes for a hella good show. And my #1 absolute favorite musical is... Wicked - The only one I like by Steven Schwartz, this is a great show. It's the back-story of the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. It's based on a book by Gregory Maguire, which is also fantastic It also has some of the greatest lyrics: As someone told me lately Everyone deserves the chance to fly And if I'm flying solo at least I'm flying free To those who'd ground me Take a message back from me Tell them how I'm defying gravity I'm flying high Defying gravity Goosebumps, I'm telling you. It doesn't hurt that Norbert Leo Butz is in it, either. Mmmm. Hey, the picture isn't from Wicked (it's from when he was the Emcee in Cabaret), but WOW. My GOD, he's hot. Well, there you have it, my top 15 Broadway shows. Enjoy!

I MADE DEAN'S LIST! Wow, can you believe it? Okay, I'm done now. (DEAN'S LIST!)

I was five in 1989, and that's how old I felt yesterday. First, my sister and I took her son and our nieces to the haunted house at the Children's Museum. I went through this thing when I was five, and I didn't even make it all the way through back then. Luckily, this time, I did, although one haunter kept yelling "BOO!!" at me. I kept thinking, "Do I know this guy?" After that, we went to Mrs. Curl's for ice cream, an ice cream shop that's been there since before I was born. Again, felt like a kid. Then, we went to the library and got a video (VHS!) of "Faery Tale Theatre" - Thumbelina, with Carrie Fisher. I have seen every episode of Faery Tale Theatre, and I felt like a kid. After that, my sister's ex-boyfriend called, the one she had when I was - you guessed it - FIVE. It was kind of bizarre talking to him, and I didn't quite like it. Oh, to actually be five again... ******************* What I'm Listening to Now: "How High the Moon" by Ella Fitzgerald

I have to say, Passions is getting quite ridiculous. Poor Theresa, marrying Alistair and losing Luis and all. I haven't a clue why she married Alistair. He's just going to use her, and she'll never be able to kill him. I don't know why she let that idea cross her mind. What is she thinking? I seriously hope Jessica goes to jail. She's put her family through hell by "being" with Spike and being a prostitute and all (probably a horribly BAD one, at that!). I don't care if she's come back home. She "says" she wants to get back on the straight and narrow again, but did you see her face when she hugged Sam the last time? She kind of rolled her eyes. She didn't mean a single word she said. What a ho. (Haha, literally!) And what's with Charmed? I have to say that "Desperate Housewitches" has been the best episode of the season so far, but since that episode wasn't even THAT good, what does that say about the rest of the season? I really hope that Charmed goes out with bang, not a whimper. And didn't that demon remind you of Joel Grey when he was the Emcee in Cabaret? Joel Grey in Cabaret: That demon from the episode: See? Weird. I know that he was in a couple episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but Charmed? Damn, he's well-rounded. Well, it's time for The Amazing Race now. I hope that stupid family from New York gets kicked off. I can't stand them. ******************** What I'm Listening to Now: "Diva's Lament" from MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT