Trailers Make Me Happy

Although I'm in the habit of hitting the 'mute' button when the commercials come on, I *do* turn on the sound every time I run into a trailer for P.S.---I Love You in hopes it's the one where I'll hear JDM say, "I like trouble."

And then there's this: http://movies.aol.com//movie/the-accidental-husband/26376/video/trailer-no-1/2033016 --- *squee/flail/thud*

Trailers Make Me Happy

Although I'm in the habit of hitting the 'mute' button when the commercials come on, I *do* turn on the sound every time I run into a trailer for P.S.---I Love You in hopes it's the one where I'll hear JDM say, "I like trouble."

And then there's this: http://movies.aol.com//movie/the-accidental-husband/26376/video/trailer-no-1/2033016 --- *squee/flail/thud*

Older and wiser?

Glancing at Yahoo's entertainment news, I spotted the headline "Sutherland starts his 48-day jail term". I read through the story, and I was impressed. For once, a celeb who isn't trying to skate on his fame! I presume that he "surrendered" himself, as the article states at this time because it's most expedient in terms of his series---with the strike going on, he has a chance of completing it before production resumes---but maybe he considered being locked up during the holiday party season to be safer in terms of avoiding temptation.

Anyway, I think it shows guts on his part, and I hope it's a learning experience for him.

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( The story is here. )

Older and wiser?

Glancing at Yahoo's entertainment news, I spotted the headline "Sutherland starts his 48-day jail term". I read through the story, and I was impressed. For once, a celeb who isn't trying to skate on his fame! I presume that he "surrendered" himself, as the article states at this time because it's most expedient in terms of his series---with the strike going on, he has a chance of completing it before production resumes---but maybe he considered being locked up during the holiday party season to be safer in terms of avoiding temptation.

Anyway, I think it shows guts on his part, and I hope it's a learning experience for him.

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( The story is here. )

Holiday mail

Christmas cards received: 2

Christmas cards sent: 0

Date I anticipate being able to send Christmas cards: December 14th (Payday, so I can snag stamps. Otherwise, I'm gonna have to hold up a post office.)

karaokegal: Wahoo, surf's up!

dine: Homina! Sent him my way, and I'll help him work on his tan lines.

I have a wreath hanging on my office door as a reminder of the season, but I'm not plugging it in because I'm concerned it might set the poster on the door on fire. Now I have a couple of cards to display, and that adds to the festivity of it all.

Thanks, youse guys!

Holiday mail

Christmas cards received: 2

Christmas cards sent: 0

Date I anticipate being able to send Christmas cards: December 14th (Payday, so I can snag stamps. Otherwise, I'm gonna have to hold up a post office.)

karaokegal: Wahoo, surf's up!

dine: Homina! Sent him my way, and I'll help him work on his tan lines.

I have a wreath hanging on my office door as a reminder of the season, but I'm not plugging it in because I'm concerned it might set the poster on the door on fire. Now I have a couple of cards to display, and that adds to the festivity of it all.

Thanks, youse guys!

Life, as usual

Today's call du jour was the young man who was my next-to-last call...he wanted to know why Trendicrap doesn't carry thongs for guys. I don't know if it was a prank or what, but I laughed myself silly when I hung up.

Thee were some doozies: I had a woman who had the wrong item reshipped to her TWICE, and it turned out to be purely human error---the noob who put in the original reship request checked the wrong ticky-box. She was stuck with two pairs of the wrong pants (non-credit return label), since the pants she DID want were in stock (reship request). That was a 25 minute call, from diagnosing the problem to FIXING it. But that's the good thing about having a year's experience at this---I can usually figure out what I need to do and if I need clarification, I'm on and off with help desk pretty quickly.

I had more calls for White Trash Queen today than I've had in the last month, including a woman who detailed an appalling encounter she had with a sales clerk while trying to make a return. They refused to allow her to return the item, and ended up calling security on her. It sounded to me like the clerk was trying to cover her own ass, because she refused to give the woman her name and wanted the woman's name and phone #, which the customer fotunately did NOT give her. I did my Goddess of Empathy routine and gave her the phone number for the corporate that deals with store issues. If it went down the way I was told it went down, someone's in for an ass-chewing.

I ended up on said 25-minute long call right before lunch, so I ended up going a little late. To my delight, they were showing The Ninth Gate on AMC, and I caught a chunk of that while I was having dinner. Haven't seen it in about two years, but I've probably seen it around ten times from when I was writing Wisdom's Gate and its companion pieces. Granted, there are plot holes galore, and I loathe Polanski's change of direction 3/4's of the way through, but I like the atmosphere for the first 3/4's, I like the soundtrack, and I love Johnny Depp's patented false sincerity and the way they have him groomed. He's not doing any strange little accents, he's just...and here's where the Polanski-loathing comes in, because Corso is such a cipher, and I blame Polanski---Depp's too good an actor not to inhabit the role unless he was told otherwise. One never quite gets his motivation. It's showing again right now, but if I really wanted to watch it again, I'd plug in the DVD so I could forward through the interminable bits.

Off Friday, because I said so.

Life, as usual

Today's call du jour was the young man who was my next-to-last call...he wanted to know why Trendicrap doesn't carry thongs for guys. I don't know if it was a prank or what, but I laughed myself silly when I hung up.

Thee were some doozies: I had a woman who had the wrong item reshipped to her TWICE, and it turned out to be purely human error---the noob who put in the original reship request checked the wrong ticky-box. She was stuck with two pairs of the wrong pants (non-credit return label), since the pants she DID want were in stock (reship request). That was a 25 minute call, from diagnosing the problem to FIXING it. But that's the good thing about having a year's experience at this---I can usually figure out what I need to do and if I need clarification, I'm on and off with help desk pretty quickly.

I had more calls for White Trash Queen today than I've had in the last month, including a woman who detailed an appalling encounter she had with a sales clerk while trying to make a return. They refused to allow her to return the item, and ended up calling security on her. It sounded to me like the clerk was trying to cover her own ass, because she refused to give the woman her name and wanted the woman's name and phone #, which the customer fotunately did NOT give her. I did my Goddess of Empathy routine and gave her the phone number for the corporate that deals with store issues. If it went down the way I was told it went down, someone's in for an ass-chewing.

I ended up on said 25-minute long call right before lunch, so I ended up going a little late. To my delight, they were showing The Ninth Gate on AMC, and I caught a chunk of that while I was having dinner. Haven't seen it in about two years, but I've probably seen it around ten times from when I was writing Wisdom's Gate and its companion pieces. Granted, there are plot holes galore, and I loathe Polanski's change of direction 3/4's of the way through, but I like the atmosphere for the first 3/4's, I like the soundtrack, and I love Johnny Depp's patented false sincerity and the way they have him groomed. He's not doing any strange little accents, he's just...and here's where the Polanski-loathing comes in, because Corso is such a cipher, and I blame Polanski---Depp's too good an actor not to inhabit the role unless he was told otherwise. One never quite gets his motivation. It's showing again right now, but if I really wanted to watch it again, I'd plug in the DVD so I could forward through the interminable bits.

Off Friday, because I said so.