Hey! Lost 39 lbs (37 if we consider the two I’ve bloated back from a cold actual weight, grumble), out of about 65-70 that I want to lose. Since February, for an idea of pace.

Going carbless was a must, at least at first, and eating breakfast helps, as does spreading the calories over the course of the day. The thing…

Give it up for Shonda Rhimes.

Ja Rule was born on Leap Day. No one trusts a Leap Day baby. Not nobody.

My first Pokemon Silver playthrough, the battle with Red on Mt. Silver. I had a level 83 Umbreon, four other Eeveelutions and my starter. And Umbreon took out 4 all by her lonesome.

Universal Appeal! How could you not include that? I could imagine Lady Gaga killing that song today, considering that great driving piano riff.

My mama kept her own name back in 1980, and I’m keeping it alive. The surface reason is because I’m a writer. Second most superficial, nothing else would sound good with my weirdo first name. True reason: we don’t change our names in this family. My mom wouldn’t even let me call her ‘Mom’ as a kid. Said her name…

Well I know what song is going to be playing at my dance studio all week. And that’s a happy thought. Her music is MADE for dancing. Thank goodness I like it!

I named my boobs Wit and Candour. As in, “Using my wit and candour, I got past the bouncer and into the nightclub”. :)

Let me tell the tale of how I almost died in order to prevent a vacation disaster.

My family was supposed to go to Portugal when I was six. And then I got the chicken pox. And I gave my sister the chicken pox.

The trip was cancelled, and for a year, I was consumed with guilt. The parents rearranged the trip for the…

Grey Canadian pain. You see that, you Yankee scoundrels? We’re GREY!

I feel super conflicted about a wedding I’m going to next year. My best friend from college’s wedding.

I couldn’t be happier for her, but she’s also inviting someone who broke my heart. I fell passionately in love (lust?) for him in the summer before third year. I’d never felt such a sexual desire for anyone, and…

I have an awful ex who I've mentioned here before. Says shit about me online. I found out through his trashtalking that he and my best friend at the time were fooling around online writing porn together throughout my entire relationship with him.

Poured myself an Alicia Florrick-sized glass of wine and sighed.

I saw this last fall. It was SO GOOD. I laughed. I cried. I cried even more. Couldn't recommend more highly.

Correct. My voice instructor retrained me to sing in French with a French accent as opposed to a Quebecois one (the French instruction in schools is primarily Quebecois-French, for obvious reasons) and without it, I would've been laughed out of Paris. More so.

There was this kids book, like, aimed at 12 year olds, about this American girl living in London and her little brother is killed in a bombing, and there's a Muslim girl at her international school who befriends her so she can steal the dead little brother's passport to go back home and continue being a terrorist—it's…

I think some Canadians have lovely voices. The ones who aren't in Ontario or Quebec. Prairie voices are bright, Nova Scotians and Newfies are charming as all get out, and Vancouverites like me just sound Pacific Northwesterly.

Whenever Americans don't get the Canadian accent, I point them towards original Moneypenny.…

And this would be one of the rare cases where it'd work, because Neyman and Fletcher are the perfect victim and perfect abuser.

EVERYTHING about that movie was top-notch. I'm so excited for Chazelle's career.

Good for you! I had to ditch a party tonight because it was more important that I not screw up my diet with food and booze—and I was whining about that! You've got major strength. Love it. And that's both a contraction of me loving it and a direct order from me.

She released an album of showtune covers recently and it's amazing. So jelly!

Me too! Am I the only one who walked away from that movie attracted to J.K. Simmons? Why hasn't Tumblr gotten on the fanfic bandwagon?