Oh, Murano glass, right. Goombah Murano glass and then Dr. Melfi's like "What's wrong with Murano glass?" And then the whitebread Cusamanos feel stupid, but they have it coming.

Geez. They even copied the scenes along the Turnpike from the Sopranos intro.

The house of one of the Housewives is ridiculously tacky. We've also hit big hair, malls, and some of the strongest NJ accents I've ever heard from people in this age range.

Really, I do know a few people who talk like that, but everybody we've seen so far has the accent. Was "cannot pronounce t, er, or ing" a requirement for being on this show?

Probably. The ones from Orange County were bad enough, though.

Now that I think about it, using the scenes of the Turnpike actually makes no sense for this show. They're showing it as if it's driving home from the city, but that's not where the Turnpike goes.

Now that I think about it, using the scenes of the Turnpike actually makes no sense for this show. They're showing it as if it's driving home from the city, but that's not where the Turnpike goes.

heh. You've seen movies and TV with people driving across Memorial Bridge with the Lincoln Memorial in the background, and then suddenly turning left onto Pennsylvania Ave, and we think "hey, you're in Virginia".

I think the weirdest geography disconnect I've seen was in the movie Ransom. The kidnappers tell the parents to meet them at an old quarry in New Jersey. The only place in Jersey that would fit that description is the Palisades, and that is where they filmed those scenes. However, the directions for how to get there include "take the Saddle River Road exit." And they do actually have a shot of the car on Saddle River Road. Most of the movie was filmed in the city, and the Palisades are right across the bridge. They had to go about twenty miles out of their way to get that three-second shot of the sign for Saddle River Road.

heh. You've seen movies and TV with people driving across Memorial Bridge with the Lincoln Memorial in the background, and then suddenly turning left onto Pennsylvania Ave, and we think "hey, you're in Virginia".

Heh. (That kind of reminds me -- last time my parents were visiting, when they were trying to drive from my apartment to their hotel, which was on 17th and K or something like that, they ended up in Virginia. Twice. I still have no idea how they managed this.)

I kind of expected painkillers to actually kill the pain. It's taken the edge off, but it still really hurts. I've got a meeting with my advisor tomorrow, and I really want to be able to focus, but my choices seem to be either too much pain to focus on math, or drugged-out but with less pain. Neither of those are good options.

I want macaroni and cheese. I have none. And I've been trying to be vegan, and I do have a vegan recipe, but I am so not cooking anything. There's a restaurant in DC that's supposed to have amazing vegan mac and cheese, but I've never tried it, and it's not really near a metro.

Huh. Painkillers make me rambly. And kind of random. Interesting. Definitely not good for when I'm supposed to be discussing math, though.

I think I ran out of internet. Maybe I'll read a book for a little while and then try to get some sleep. What should I read? I need to get to a bookstore and buy some new books.

I hope you're better in the morning, Hil. Stay away from Elsie.