Courtenay Brown

Lucky me, and definitely lucky you, readers: I have been tagged by Alisha and then Sharon to share Five Fascinating Facts about Me. And, tagging me is about the nicest thing a friend could do. I love yammering away about myself. So:1. One of my favourite current pastimes is to say things like "hey greg, which one makes out with princess leia again, luke skywalker or harrison ford? is there a sex scene?!" or "is hayden christiansen darth vader? and by the way what's up with his hairdo?". Tomorrow I am going to ask what's the difference between a wookie and a klingon.2. When I was 22 I fancied myself a Goth. ...

An Anonymous Friend's story:grrrrrpeople are stupidso i'm out in the field about as far as i can get from my desk and i'm on the phone with the architectand he tells me he sent me an email about this thing we were discussing earlier this morningi tell him i'm out in the field about as far away from my desk as i can get and could he tell me what it saysso he says "maybe you should go back to your desk and read it."so i hang upcome back to my desk and all it says is that we don't have to install this rigid insulation on the ...

... High School P.E. at the Pool.The local high school PE class comes to the pool several afternoons a week. I see them because they are right after lap swim.This is a co-ed P.E. class.All hormones, all downcast eyes, all nervous cowering body language, more cell phones and more sharpie-decorated items than you can shake a stick at, and no one wants to strip down to a suit, let alone swim.

I walked into the post office a couple of minutes before 9 a.m., to mail a birthday card to my grandmother, and the Charlottesville post office had T.V.'s in it. There were two other customers there. The first plane had already crashed into the first tower, and as we were standing there gape-mouthedly staring at CNN, the second plane crashed.I rushed to the radio station to help the dj before me with news updates and to get ready for my show. We were the only station in town who continued to play music that day, everyone else switched to news-only but a. we didn't have that capability and b. music is soothing in times of distress, ...

5. If you are in a car, in a foreign country, and you are lost, and if you then ask someone for directions and they tell you to "go two blocks and turn left at the robot", first of all you are in South Africa, and second of all this "robot" they are talking about is the traffic light.4. In Bay Area Target stores this weekend, the only sizes left of the cute clothes seem to be XL and double XL. However in Minneapolis Target stores last week, there was an overabundance of S and XS but few remaining big sizes. 3. Surefire way to improve moods after forces-beyond-someone's-control end someone's race prematurely is to start ...

It was a pretty successful family reunion week I have decided.My mom managed to corner all 3 of her kids for a photo, and she even got one where no one had bunny-ears or a finger up their nose.That's my cousin Elizabeth, then Me, Than, and Sarah who was still not speaking to me (see below).My brother Than and my uncle Tony got out on the tennis court every day.Me: How was the Tennis?Than: We didn't play tennis.Me: Huh? How come you are all sweaty and ...

I got tall!

Yesterday, after dealing with one crapassy phone that completely crapped out and one that only let me hear 75% of what people said, I decided it was time to suck it up and sign on for another 2 years with Cingular in exchange for a "reasonable" price on a new phone.I wanted something that would:a. workb. take picturesc. workd. be able to have email during periods of time when I am at my mom's, where the only internet is dial-up through 85-year-old phone linese. workf. not be a flip phoneg. workI got online to do some research but that was taking way too long, so I solicited advice from ...

Little Brother: Hey sis whatup?Big Sister: Hey! Nothing! I am driving home from a race!LB: Oh. You're driving? Maybe I should wait till later to tell you this.BS: Huh? Tell me what? Oh my god what HAPPENED?! Are you O.K.?LB: Well, I got a girl pregnant.BS: You WHAT? Oh my god WHO? Do I KNOW her?!LB: Some random hookup. You don't know her.BS: Oh my god what are you going to DO?!LB: I don't know. I tried to tell Ma earlier but I was on the phone and I just couldn't do it.BS: Oh my god I am so SORRY! Are you ...

jiggedy jig, or something. Isn't that a nursery rhyme?Anyway, Sharon and I got up at 5:30 this morning and hit the road from Redlands/L.A. back home to San Francisco, thinking we were early enough to "avoid traffic." We thought wrong, but it wasn't so bad.At some point pre-coffee and pre-breakfast, we realized we needed gas. S.F. Mission Blvd sounded pleasantly Bay Area-like for a Southern California freeway exit, so that's the one we took. We were actually in search of Starbucks and gas but we quickly realized we didn't hit the right demographic for the former and opted to take care of the latter instead. A little civic packed to the gills and topped ...