Earthquakes and fires and floods, oh my!

Okay, seriously, the most unloved movie genre ever is the disaster film. Well, most unloved overall. I happen to adore this genre. Earthquakes and tornadoes and floods- not so much hurricanes, but everything else is fair game. Bring it on. For two hours, or a mini-series length, I am totally there.

So, right now, the best disaster flick ever is on- Aftershock: Earthquake in New York. It's improbable and ridiculous, but, hello? It's got Jen Garner hanging out with this hot Russian cab driver. And... and I love it! There are people in the subways wandering around, waiting for it to flood! A girl trapped in a collapsed high school! The mom from "the face on the milk carton" searching for her son, who is stuck on the top of his school, and who has something that no one can define wrong with him! The dad of the same kid having to get into the city by kayak! The chief of police and fire department had just resigned, but is now back on duty, and it's his daughter in the school! And the mayor, his daughter is in the subways! And Jen... well, she's with the hot Russian guy, and her mommy and daddy are missing, but if she was on Alias, she wouldn't have had to worry, because SpyDaddy would have found her in a couple of minutes and then? He would have used the Sydney voice. You know. "Sydney!"

Yes, I would much rather do this than do my community service essay, a practice SAT, citations for the EE, or the essays for UF, why do you ask?

ETA: I already knew, but I completely spaced on it...

Happy 18th birthday, Kara!!

(and, ha, happy 37th, Michael Vartan.)

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Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry, this could be a case for Mulder and Scully.

"And the best thing about the legend is I can enter it anywhere."

Today I:

- did a practice SAT
- finished citing my EE and put it on a disk
- did most of my questionnaire for college recommendations- now I need to decide where to apply
- wrote my community service essay
- read and kind of annotated Eavan Boland's "The Pomegranate," which I kind of love more than I can say here. And I plan on challenging people with it IF THEY WOULD EVER ANSWER MY CHALLENGES. (Nita? I am LOOKING RIGHT AT YOU.)

I haven't done so much in a day in months.