Several weeks back, I was just chatting with the guy next to me on the plane. And I have to admit that I’m one of those people who just can’t seem to help themselves when it comes to the Duty Free catalogue. I absolutely have to take a peak every time. He saw me looking at the fragrances and asked me if I collected perfumes. Apparently, every woman he’d ever met had a huge collection of perfumes, lipsticks, or shoes. Sometimes, all three.

Now I never really thought of myself as a collector, per se, but I do like fragrances. Sometime, long ago, people started spreading this rumor that every woman should have one “signature scent” that she would wear everyday. But as much as I believe in loyalty and fidelity, I could never imagine wearing just one perfume for the rest of my life, just as I can not possibly imagine drinking only one type of tea forever. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have favorites.

One of my favorite perfumes was Givenchy’s Organza Indecence. It was a warm, rich, enveloping scent, reminiscent of the beloved vanillas of my youth, but all grown up. I remember a saleswoman at Lord and Taylor’s shoving a sample into my face when it was just released. From the moment I spritzed it onto my wrist, it was love at first sniff.

Through the years, I had always kept a bottle of it close by. And oh, what a beautiful bottle it was. Golden in color and flowing in shape, through the texture of the glass, you could almost see the shimmer of her dress. But then, in the rush of my move at graduation, I closed a drawer too roughly and my bottle tumbled, crashing to the floor. I felt like I had lost a dear friend.

So, somewhere along the way, I found out that it had been discontinued, and I was heartbroken. But then, while trolling around the internet, I discovered that Givenchy has re-released it, in some mythical version. But of course, they changed the beautiful bottle to a simple rectangle. Why, oh why must they do this to me?

Look at them! How can we even compare the two? I guess I have to continue searching ebay. Or I can just keep wearing Heavenly, just like 90% of the female population in America.

Hey, it looks like I’m not the only person who noticed that John Kerry found his voice last night! For those of you who didn’t watch the Democratic National Convention last night, you can check it out here. You can tell that he’s not used to giving decent speeches because he seemed so surprised that people were clapping.

Honestly, I’m not really a big fan of Kerry. He kind of looks scraggly and seems a bit uptight. Not the terribly likable sort. But suddenly, he puts on this show of bravery, now that he’s out of the spotlight. Then again, it seems like almost everyone does better when the interrogation lamp is off of them. Ms Hillary seems happy and energetic again. And then there’s the transformation of Al Gore….

I was going to come on here and write about some semi-serious issues, like something about non-commitment and its negative impacts on our lives, but then, the New York Times had to post this article Finding Nemo release

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…flying home to Manchester from the Greek island of Kos, a pair of drunken women yelling “I need some fresh air” attacked the flight attendants with a vodka bottle and tried to wrestle the airplane’s emergency door open at 30,000 feet.

Now putting aside my long-standing beliefs about how opening the window doesn’t at all guarantee that the air will be “fresher,” that still makes me chuckle. But just listen to this one:

[A] 20-year-old British tourist partied with her sister and a friend into the early hours in Malia also in July, then returned to her hotel room and — although she had denied being pregnant — gave birth.

Even the British Consulate people think that they’ve got issues:

“…they have so much to drink that they fall off balconies and are either killed or need huge operations.”

But don’t worry. It’s really not so bad, say the tourists themselves. After all…

“I’ve never seen anyone get stabbed the whole time I’ve been here,” said Chris Robinson, 21, speaking outside the Loft bar, which had a special deal: four drinks and two shots for $8.

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Ok, so I’m usually pretty clueless, and I don’t really check my cell phone bill… but I changed my phone number a while back, from a Boston number to a New York City number, and I noticed that without any changes to my plan, my taxes and fees mysteriously went up from less than $5 to more than $10. Does this mean that there is some implicit tax to having a NYC cell phone number? I mean, it’s not even a 212 number, with all of its associated semi-prestige. Did anyone else notice something like this?

In other news, later today, I’ll be on a flight to the Helvetic Confederation, or at least that’s what ANA web called it when I was looking to book tickets. Hopefully, my 737 won’t crash over the water. That would seriously ruin my family vacation…. And I don’t know how well Hops would fare after getting all wet.

But you know, I’m not having a good feeling about this trip. Maybe because 1) I seem to be coatless and the weather is supposed to be wet and a bit chilly, and 2) I really don’t know how to get to Newark.

I will report when I get back, hopefully with pictures.

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Anyway, if someone can explain American Psycho to me, I would really appreciate it. I know it’s a cult classic, but seriously? Oh, and why is it that people only voluntarily talk to me on google chat when they see some status message about Baleheads? It’s as if they don’t even normally notice me on their contact lists or something. *sigh*

So… Still on the to-watch list:
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Casablanca
The Machinist (?)

Quite possibly in that order.

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