i'm a pixel here, myself

This is mostly for thelionforreal, but anyone who wants to can play along.

If you were to produce a movie version of Microserfs, who would you cast? The obvious characters (Dan, Karla, Dad, Mom, Michael, Abe, Bug, Susan, Ethan, Todd, Dusty) plus as many of the lesser characters as you see fit (Anatole, Jed, Shaw, Amy/BarCode, etc.).

a. Right now I really, really, really want a bag of peanut M&Ms from the downstairs vending machine, but I'm being good and not going to get them because I'm really trying to cut back on snacky things. Lunch was leftover chicken/broccoli/rice from yesterday, and my snack was a granola bar. I'm going to go to the gym after work and make my body do things it doesn't want to do for 45 minutes, then go home and collapse. I'm not even really *dieting* so much as cutting out some of the crap I eat. I figured a granola bar would fill me as much as a bag of M&Ms, but I was wrong. Tomorrow I'll bring carrots, too.

Why is this (read: minor food changes/decreases to lose weight) so hard?

b. Singing a concert this Saturday with the a cappella folks. It should be fun, but my music director won't give us a setlist. Partly because he likes to make it up on the spot, but partly because he's a sadist. I like knowing the set in advance so I can prepare for any songs I may not have sung in a while. Fortunately I'm not the only T1 this time. I really like these guys and I'm glad I found them. Now if we could just get the $&%*ing CD out...

c. [This] image just showed up in my RSS reader. Hi-freaking-larious. What would *your* caption be? So, *SO* not worksafe.

d. [Another RSS entry]. Thanks to minotaurs for pointing me to Made In Brazil -- some really hot boys show up there!

e. No posts by me on American Idol yet because they're still in the mostly-loathsome audition rounds. When we get to the semifinals and the final 12 I'll start having opinions. Last night was just me going "get that kid off my screen" a lot and wondering why I hadn't auditioned, since SF had such crap singers.

f. Okay, someone entertain me now. I am SO BORED and have played all the Sudoku and Mahjongg I can handle at the moment.

I finished Microserfs again. The last six pages have me bawling every time.