Actually, I do have a couple more things to say about Superman Returns. Don't worry, it ain't much.

First, I personally need my Lois Lane to be the really ditzy bitch she was in I&II. Endearingly scatterbrained and unkempt. You know. And she really wasn't in this one, so much.

And, whatup with not, say, password-protecting the ice crystals, or something? No, it wouldn'tve been much of a movie if Lex hadn't stolen every single last one, but did it have to be so easy? He just walked right in there and took 'em! No challenge whatsover.

Maybe there wasn't enough time for all that.

But, it really made the people of Krypton seem so naive. Trusting, to a fault.

Other than these things, it was okay.

Quick movie reviews:

Superman Returns: not too bad, entertaining
The Devil Wears Prada: cute, liked it
Click: kind of sucked, which surprised me a little. Even though it made me cry toward the end, and I felt like a dork until I realized most of the people in the aisle were also crying. All the girls and little kids, anyway. Why were little kids at a movie after 10 pm? Yes, I know it's summer.

I've had fairly significant adult acne for a while. I had zits as a teenager, which pretty much went away for most of my twenties and early-thirties.

Things were mostly clear until December '04, when a whole bunch of stressful stuff happened at once. My skin took the brunt of it, and for the next year-and-almost-half some of the biggest, juiciest zits in (I'm pretty sure) the history of time appeared on my face. Multitudes, of the species that enjoy taking their sweet time healing, and love hanging out for weeks and weeks.

Of course, I tried all manner of over-the-counter stuff. I'm about to tell you what finally worked for me, but I've gotta give Neutrogena's On-the-Spot acne treatment a shout, 'cause hey ... it does what it's supposed to do. Dries up the zits, but won't leave the rest of your face all itchy and crackly. If you've got minor zittage, definitely give it a shot.

Anyway. By the time April rolled around, I decided I'm tired of dealing with this! so I asked my doctor for a dermatology referral. She gave me one, but asked if I'd be adverse to trying a low-dosage birth control pill for a while first, as it's been proven to control adult acne.

I said sure, and have been on Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo almost three months. It took about a month to notice results, but my acne problem cleared up pretty fast. I still get a zit from time to time, but nothing like before. They're tiny, and go away within a day or two.

The doc said this is a good pill to go on if you're older and don't want to get into all the Accutane stuff, or even if you're younger, and intend to get pregnant within a reasonable amount of time after going off the pill ("Lo" hormone dosage).

Personally, Accutane and pregnancy are equally unappealing to me, so it's almost like this stuff was made specifically with ME in mind.

It really took care of my skin problems -- just thought I'd pass it along. §her¡♣ said | heh? oh

Damn, we have some morons for apartment managers.

Or, ex-apartment managers.

It appears most of the (sucky, bitchy, snoot-eh) old crew just up and walked out, taking a bunch of newly-signed leases with them or shredding them. Or flushing them. Including OURS.

But the new management seems pretty cool, especially since they knocked $40/month off our rent this entire next year for our troubles. *

$40 less per month that we have to pay. This entire next year.

That just ROCKS.

And I must say, it definitely made the inconvenience of having to sign a new lease again, not even one month later, kinda ... fun!




* There's gotta be a catch. I never really trust this kind of awesome thing. Shall provide updates of sucky apartment management from the new crew, as situations undoubtedly will arise.

Ah jeeze, they're talking to Star Jones on Today and it just goes on and
on and on-on-on.

Al Roker is taking it all very, very seriously. He hasn't cut her off once, like all the anchors do to anyone else they've ev-er interviewed.

Um, people actually watch The View.

Or ... people actually watch The View?

Mostly, I'm just pissed because I do like watching Today, but don't really get to that often. And, here, when I finally get a chance ... all they do is talk to this mega-rich, kinda boring emaciated woman about her "difficult time" and "troubling events in recent days" for most of the show.

Does anyone really give a crap? Star doesn't even seem ALL that concerned about it.

And to give her credit, you can tell she wants to leave, and start being some wealthy no-"job"-havin' socialite. Perhaps begin gaining back a little bit of weight, so her knees and elbows will no longer double as lethal weapons.

But Al won't let her go. Keeps making her sit there, commercial break upon commercial break.

Let her go, Al!

Let her go eat something!!

Hey, I just wrote about Star Jones. Being on vacation? Well, it rocks, oh yes! & makes ya do strange things.