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Is there any way to copyright the phrase "I'm seeing 2020" so that I get a penny every time someone uses it? It just hit me that in about 12 years, that's going to become one of the most overused media lines ever.

I'm almost tempted to get a head start on abusing it by having a 2020 party and asking guests to come as celebrities or fashion victims from the future.

Hmm. "President Cruise". Hmm.


Anyhow. This weekend I helped celebrate heavenscalyx's birthday by eating amazing food and dealing with my hardest role-playing challenge ever: playing a totally mundane, vanilla college student hanging out with three sci-fi/fantasy geeks. It hurt my brain!

Sunday was a trip up north for an afternoon with my family, and, well, maybe it's time to scale back to seeing them once every two months, is all I'll say. The whole "lunch and a movie" visit sort of falls apart when a) you're told there's not really time for lunch, and b) after you get to the theater and buy your ticket, they decide they want to see a different movie. And then rush off afterwards for bingo. For this I drove four hours?

Oh, and as long as I'm complaining about really minor things... the movie I saw had a sound problem that made it seem like someone had a lawnmower going behind the screen. And on the way home, the Maine NPR station broadcast this bizarrely long and detailed disclaimer before and during 'This American Life' that made it sound like we were about to hear a story about heroin-snorting goat-rapists on the high seas as told by the nuns who ravaged them, and only by turning off the radio immediately, burning the radio in an open field and then deafening your children would you be able to protect them from being scarred for life by even hearing the title of the show.

And I feel like I'm still not doing justice to how over-the-top this warning was.