My disgust knows no bounds, but neither does my lack of surprise, nor my cynicism regarding the shrub’s moral indignation. Because, of *course* our ill trained, damm near drafted, wanting to come home service people are just so perfect that they would never abuse, torture, or humiliate prisoners of war protected by the Geneva conventions. That only happens in other places, where the pure, upstanding american military hasn’t come to save the day.

My ass.

And they’re Waltzing Matilda….

I have a deep and abiding fan-worship of Alex Ross, (hey, every member of my family has a Single Favorite Painter - mine just happens to do comic book heroes), so seeing him do an interpretation of Tom Welling as a grown up superman? Quite the coolness.

• WBH Swim updates
• Plonked down approx. $1,600 for plane tickets to Ireland. (Finally taking the out of country trip. Wheee!)
• Kept all my day job clients (mostly) happy.
• Began re-designing the US Box envelopes. (I’ve already revamped their order forms and invoices)
• Visited the bookstore. (On orders from Bill. Apparently, I’ve begun stressing so much that I’m becoming hard to live with.)
• Called my Dad.
• Planned what I’ll be taking on the plane trip.

What I need to do tonight:

• Finish coding the 1,000+ items for S4
• Finish redesign work for BubbleBliss (not yet live)
• Finish site updates for DragonFolk

No, I’m not going to finish all this tonight. Hence the stress.

What I need to do later this week

• Submit my passport paperwork
• Finish my taxes
• Figure out a way to stop stressing.

• If you know me as Julie you could be just about anyone on the planet.
• If you know me as Jules or Juliebear you’re either my cousin Ron or my mom. If you aren’t one of these two people, you’ll get thumped.
• If you know me as DragonChylde you probably know me from faire. You may also know me from usenet.
• If you know me as ‘chylde you were drunk when you met me at faire.
• If you know me as Art Department you work with me.
• If you know me as “our on staff artist” you’re a sales rep at my job. And you’re annoying me.
• If you know me as That chick in the yellow blouse or jailbait you met me my first two years at faire and then dropped off the face of the earth.
• If you know me as Alana you know me from the (now defunct) Dark City LARP.
• If you know me as the Julie part of BillAndJulie you’re one of the folks we hang around with who hasn’t figured out that we *aren’t* always joined at the hip.
• If you know me as lady or hey lady you’re either Bonnie or Loretta.
• If you know me as Betsy, you’re Bill and you’re trying to annoy me.

But it was decided by the group that Dawn of the Dead was a better choice. It didn’t suck, and personally, I don’t think it deserves the pounding it’s getting by fans and critics. However, it was the single most disturbing and scary things I’ve seen in *ages*. And not ’cause of the gore.

Just…. disturbing. Don’t see it alone. And for the love of god, don’t go home alone after you’ve seen it. None of us could. Actually, everyone ended up crashing at our place ’cause no one wanted to leave the group. We were that freaked.