Marchons, marchons

Well, I guess time goes on, anyway; I'm not sure I can make a good case for my blog title today. It's been a year today since Kibbee died. I still miss her - cried for a while once I realized today was the day - and it seems simultaneously like less and more than a year. I love the others, but they lack the smallth and brownth. And the persistence about my lap, and the daintiness. And okay, maybe not the batting always, but right now, I miss it.

UTI?

I'm sure the Universal Technical Institute is a fine school, but I can't be the only woman who saw that commercial=dial and thought, "UTI? No, thanks."

furnace, heat, etc.

I opened up my spam filter just now, as I do every few days to check for real messages that went astray, and found this subject line: "Give her furnace some heat". It claims to be a pharmaceutical company sending the message, and of course I didn't even try to open it. But wow, "give her furnace some heat" is the least hot metaphor for sex ever, with its imagery of shovels and hods and coal. Maybe the spammer is a huge fan of Busman's Honeymoon, and after giving the furnace some heat, the man goes out to be washed under the pump like a puppy!

it's the *possibility* that fascinates me

I'm loving this season of Survivor; I'm enjoying it more now than I have for a couple of years. Kass just made a huge move in the game - and yes, I know, she could go home next week, because no one likes betrayal. Now that the tribes are 6-4, the LJ/Tony/Jefra/Woo/Trish group could send Kass packing. But on the other hand, if people believe what Spencer said about how Kass could never win the game now, they'd be fools to vote her out. So I see a scenario where she could be kept around until the end, as that person who doesn't have a hope of winning. And then, because she's an attorney (and presumably able to argue well, though not every attorney does that day to day) and she made a big move, she could possibly make a good case for herself in the final three.
Or, of course, as I said: she could be voted off at the next Tribal, and then she and Sarah will have an awkward reunion wherever the jury is sequestered.
But the possibility, the endless twists of the game - who could have guessed Kass would flip, that the five listed above would vote for Sarah, or that LJ would play his idol - is what makes Survivor so fascinating sometimes.

poor Ashley - I hope

Here's the thing: I really like Ashley Wagner. She's my favorite female U.S. skater who's still in training for the Olympics. Her reputation worldwide has been growing over the last few years. But here's the thing: how can she reasonably be expected to keep her head in the game in Sochi if she can't stand on the podium at U.S. Nationals? So although I really like her, I hope the USFSA - or the USOC, not sure who makes this call - decides to make her an alternate for Sochi. Because as much as I like her, she's done her reputation no favors by coming in fourth at her own Nationals, and I doubt she'd medal at the Olympics now anyway.
Which is not to say that medaling is the only thing that matters, because it isn't. But if no one from the U.S. women's team is likely to medal, then why not just send the three who earned it tonight? I know they're planning to take past competitions into account, but if tonight had ended with Gold, Nigasu and Wagner on the podium, there wouldn't need to be so much debate about it now.
Also, while I wasn't a fan of Tara Lipinski back in 1998, she certainly deserved to be there, just as Edmunds might now.