pass the shoehorn

my school had a concert in celebration of their 20th anniversary. one of the best canadian pianists playing in an intimate setting, on an amazing piano...it was wonderful beyond words.

i was told that my piano prof from university from was coming, so i was looking forward to seeing him. i was a little worried that he wouldn't remember me; you just never know how much teachers and professors remember their students. me, i even remember those who weren't my students, but i think i'm the exception rather than the rule. i DID spend 2.5 hours a week with this prof over 4 years...so hopefully he would remember me a bit.

and he did! as i was walking out of the concert into the lobby, he spotted me, joyfully called my name and hurried over to give me a hug. in my mind i was thinking that he hasn't changed a bit - he said to me "you look FANTASTIC!" at the same time that i said "you look the SAME!" in the end, it sounded like my "you look the SAME!" was a back-handed reply to his "you look FANTASTIC!" the dean of music at laurier witnessed the exchange, and he and my former prof had a good chuckle over it.

as for me, i had only four words that came to mind: open mouth, insert foot.

re: all by myself

ok...this is getting a bit hokey. i don't really know what i expected when denny stuck around last episode, but having him there, always, seems a bit much. izzie MUST be on her way out, and fast. i can't handle having him there all the time, for the rest of the season. it's just not right! and poor poor alex. he is totally going to be crushed when izzie chooses denny in the end. because we all know that will happen.

alex's profession of love? almost the sweetest thing ever. and, for the record, the sweetest thing ever = "pick me. choose me. love me." pffft, as if you even had to ask.

callie and sadie? first of all, it sounds like i'm talking about two of my friends' puppies. they are both dog names. no, i'm not trying to call them female dogs (tee hee! bitches!), it's just how i feel. and while this pairing is more believable than the torres-hahn combination - i even admittedly had a girl crush on sadie - it feels like they're jumping the shark with this lesbian storyline. i feel like all lesbian storylines on any tv show end up jumping the shark - whys that? (snicker!) some kind of unfair double standard, i guess. like, when jack went gay on dawson's creek, it was believeable and he stayed gay. but marissa cooper on the o.c.? she was gay for like 2 seconds! it was all about the gratuitous kiss! that's the only example i think of right now, but i am certain there are more out there.

little grey and little sloan, together at last! so cute. and hot. hubba hubba!

who knew cristina would pick alex? this girl, right here! the minute he rattled off how he would do the surgery, i knew she would. because she's logical like that. meredith really is kind of a dum-dum if she thought cristina didn't choose her because she was mad. mer's a little self-absorbed...i used to think it was because she was distraught over not being with derek, but no. it's her.

dr. dixon's bedside manner makes cristina look like IZZIE. she can't actually be staying on the show. and i wonder how people with asperger's (or those close to those with asperger's) feel about her performance. too overdone? maybe.

and and and! meredith's line at the end, when they're betting on whether alex will choke? "that's one of us down there"? she said the same thing about george in season 1 when he was chosen to scrub in with burke as his "guy". oh, how it all comes full circle...if only it were alex who bet against george on that fateful day. it totally would have been too, had alex been part of the cast for the first episode. yes, i'm sad for knowing that...and that's my cue to go to bed. the end.

sharing the christmas spirit...with myself?

this is the earliest that i've begun my christmas shopping. and by begun, i don't mean just looking for ideas and not buying anything until the week before. i've actually bought several gifts already! i can tell this is the earliest that i've started shopping because none of the stores have run out of gift boxes yet. usually by the time i get on the "buying" track, there are no boxes left and i'm left trying to wrap a sweater with uncooperative paper.

i think the ridiculous sales have helped. and i would have started my christmas shopping even earlier, but i kept buying things for myself first. further to my bargain basement miko story, i bought two sweaters that were 30% off. then because i'm on the mailing list, i got an email saying that everything on sale is another 30% off. so i went back and got the price adjusted. faaaantastic!

and now i am on strict orders from myself to stop buying presents for me. i am such a downer.