Apparently,

I signed up for a trial subscription for Entertainment Weekly magazine at Best Buy a while back. I don't remember doing this, but I don't discount the possibility. However, today I received a charge for a re-subscription to the magazine, at $27.95. This was, to put it mildly, a bit of a shock, given that I have never seen a single issue of the magazine in my mailbox. In other words, I'm getting re-subscribed to a magazine to which, according to empirical evidence, I was never subscribed in the first place.

Fortunately, Kim at the EW call center was both helpful and obliging, and has cancelled the subscription and given me a refund, which should show up on my bank account in a few days.

In addition, the check that I need to pay the bills for the month - our refunded security deposit from Henderson-Webb - can't be deposited into my account without both my signature and Dave's on it. And Dave is out of town until Wednesday at the earliest.

I need to get off this train of thought. I'm going to stress myself to death if I don't.

You know the rules.

1) Where do those icons come from? They're so cute, and yet at the same time, frightening.

They come from here, and I'm glad you like them. :)

2) Which is better: ninja, pirate, or superspy?

Ninja. They own the night.

3) What's the most vivid dream you can remember?

Up until a few months ago, I would have had a different answer to this question.

Right now, the most vivid dream I can remember is also very, very brief: I dreamed of falling out of an airplane, feeling the wind rush past me and watching the ground approach, and then the feeling of landing solidly on a rounded boulder. I remember intense pain, and being dead for a few moments before I woke up - and, oddly, I hadn't fallen out of my bed. This happened when I was 10 or so.

Until a few months ago, I would have said that my most vivid dream was of going to the zoo with my family (at around age 4 or 5), including my maternal grandparents, riding a camel, and then trying to get back into the camel's pen so I could ride again and being chided by a zoo attendant. I very, very distinctly remembered the dream, and mentioned it off-handedly - zoos had come up in discussion - to my mother one day late last summer; she went inside and came back out with a photograph of me on the camel.

4) If you could gain the (not so) super powers of one person, dead or alive, who would it be?

I've been putting off answering these because of this question. ;) Probably Sir Richard Burton, for his mad social and language skillz.

5) What is your favorite movie?

The Shawshank Redemption. I don't know why. I just like it an awful lot.

Weirdly, he actually said this

( Quoted from Andy Rooney )

(For the folks who don't know who he is, Andy Rooney is a commentator on the 60 Minutes television program.)