April showers

It's going to rain. With that in mind, here is my list of things to do this weekend:

1. Make banana bread. You know how sometimes you catch a whiff of something and it stays with you? I don't even remember where I smelled banana bread last week, but I gotta have it now. I have 3 bananas sitting past their prime at home expressly for this purpose.
2. Get vacuum bags. My apartment is pretty clean, but I'd encourage anyone who comes over not to look too closely at the carpet, as it hasn't been vacuumed in over a month. This is because my vacuum bag is full and the last time I went to Sears, they were out of replacement bags.
3. Get windshield wipers (also at Sears).
4. Work on Statistics project.
5. Study for Statistics test.
6. Find out about housing for Columbia & the possibility of getting an apartment.
7. Withdraw from UMDNJ. I've been holding onto this acceptance long enough. Time to give someone else a chance.
8. Stop at B&N to flip through A Year in Japan. Interesting book I read about in Jane magazine. It's written by an artist who, well, spent a year in Japan (Kyoto specifically).
9. Watch Gilmore Girls. I'm almost done with Season 4.
10. Watch The Notebook. Not sure how I'll like it, but I was in a sappy mood at the video store.
11. Order pics online to put together a Japan album.
12. Take care o' mah bills.

Looks like I have a lot to do this weekend.

Also saw this article in the Thursday Styles section of the NYTimes. I fall into the category of educated, employed young adults who receive assistance from their parents ... but I'm almost wondering: who doesn't? Maybe I'm too entrenched in the practice to see it for all its novelty, but I think it's a bit odd to generate hoopla around a phenomenon that wouldn't otherwise bear mention. Barring a major falling out, isn't it only natural that parents would want to help their kids out if it was within their means to do so? And when you start talking about the monetary value of babysitting the grandchildren, it gets a little ridiculous. The phenomenon is called family, and it's been going on since time immemorial.

Calls to mind a monocle-wearing professorial type uttering in a British accent: "How curious, that members of this species actually support their young beyond sexual maturity. Remarkable!"

On the one hand, you've got gossip mags falling over themselves to report on the latest celebrity break-up. On the other, you've got a respectable newspaper making academic observations about common-sense things in an effort to document so-called milestones in socio-history. The lesser of 2 evils? ::Shrug::