*sigh* this week is almost over which means the week of krazy, but fun stuff towards the end, is almost here. I'll be working Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at both jobs (thanks Michael U. for taking the Monday SB shift!) so everyone should expect that I'll be pretty incoherent when Thursday evening rolls around. If I make it that long=P The fun stuff includes Lisa getting into town on Friday, which means lunch and/or dinner at Scotty's and much talk about ourselves, books, music and who knows what else. Then on Saturday, Adrienne and I are on a 5:35 p.m. standby flight out of O'Hare to Seattle to visit Kelly. And I'll probably be sleeping during most of the flight there. The flight home on Wednesday should get us back to Lafayette around 11 p.m./12 a.m. I'm sure I'll have plenty of Seattle excursions and photos to blog about.

I'm counting down the minutes until I get the obits page to edit this evening. I've stayed over the past few nights and I'm hoping to get out before 9:30/10 p.m. With starting work at noon, that makes for a long day. I have tomorrow off, thank goodness, but have plans to go to T-town and play maid in my parents house. They left today on a 10-day cruise and in the meantime are letting their church's new pastor and fam stay in their house until they find a house of their own in Tipton. That's two adults, plus four children ranging from ages two to 10. Oy. Anywho, I agreed to change all the beds and lay out towels on each of them, clean each room up a bit and other small random things my mom asked me to do. Here's hoping everything goes smoothly so that when my parents get back, their house will be in sorta the same shape they left it!

I've also had my parents cat this past week while they are on vacay. She is so freakin' cute. She's sorta chubs, okay, just chubs, and black and white with these huge eyes that look at you and say, "Please pet me." I'll hopefully post a picture of her later this evening.

Well, time to get back to work now that the obits page has been printed. Let's hope I can finish in a timely manner and not have any mistakes to read/hear about on Saturday.

Michigan State vs. Purdue

Michigan State 54
Purdue 60

Yay Boiliers and way to go Robbie Hummel with 24 points!

By Frank Oliver/Journal & Courier

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Arrested Development Film Officially In The Works

Writer: Julia Reidy
News, Published online on 04 Feb 2008

Jason Bateman of the ridiculous and ridiculously awesome/deceased Arrested Development has finally confirmed rumors that an AD major motion picture is in the works. E! reports that two of the show's masterminds, Mitch Hurwitz and Ron Howard, are talking with the cast and Universal about getting a project moving after the conclusion of the writers' strike. All seem interested and enthusiastic.

No word yet on when the Bluth family might take to the big screen, but Bateman says, "I can confirm a round of sniffing has started." Optimistic words, considering how much we've missed the crew since it left the little screen after the show was pulled from Fox in 2005.

Thanks to reader Blake Detherage for the tip!

from pastemagazine.com

Former Secretary of Agriculture, Purdue dean Butz dies

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