this has disaster written all over it...

Dwight with his own spinoff? Could this be the end of the Jim, Pam and Dwight triangle of antics?

He would never leave Dunder Mifflin...Right?

my new toy

I finally got an iPod! It's just a shuffle, but I'm pretty excited about it (I got the blue one after much deliberation). Kell has the nano, which has an actual screen and such, but I didn't think we needed 2 in our house. He always ends up with the more tech-savvy stuff. Anyway, I just wanted one to take with me on plane trips. And it's about the size of the one in the picture - I can clip it to my shirt in the airport and look cool.

After a short tutoring session from my husband, I immediately got to work on which songs on my iTunes I wanted to commit to my shuffle. I only can have 240 on there. Sounds like a lot, but once I started to go through my playlist, it got hard to narrow down. Plus, I've mentioned before how important it is to me to have a diverse musical repertoire.

So, what's on your iPod? What should I add to mine?

mississippi state! (whoo!) damn right!

Next stop - Omaha.

Over 13,000 fans watched State crush Clemson's College World Series hopes and dreams today - the largest in NINE seasons of Super Regionals (breaking the previous mark that MSU set only 24 hours earlier). And, it's only icing on the cake that we'll get to Omaha before the Rebs. Childish to say, I know, but great nonetheless.

No one does baseball like the Dawgs.

Here's hoping that Ole Miss gets beat by 15 runs both games against Arizona State!!

make up your mind already!

I am not in the business of feeling sorry for Paris Hilton. She screwed up, tried to beat the system and lost. For a couple of days. And to think I thought the saga was coming to an unsurprising close.

Paris was sent BACK to jail today. And, I have to say, I don't know that I'm cool with that. I can't convince myself that justice was really served here. No one should be released on house arrest, ready to get on with her life, only to be re-sentenced and re-incarcerated. Well, no one guilty of Paris's relatively minor crimes.

And was it really necessary to pick her up in a police car? I seriously doubt a famous face like Paris is any danger of a flight risk. I feel pretty certain she would have returned to court in her own vehicle if asked.

So, the sheriff, judge and California judicial system totally messed up. I hope he never tries to stay at a Hilton again.

birthday wishes

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday Dear Amy,
Happy Birthday to you!

Amy Katherine Eddleman is 26 today!

If you see this woman in the tri-county area,

wish her a Happy Day.

paris has left the building

In the words of the great John McEnroe, “You CANNOT be serious.”

Paris Hilton, after 3 days (and if you ask me, only 2 of those should count), is home with a brand new accessory. No, not a tacky handbag or a tiny, yippy dog – an ankle bracelet. Due to supposed “medical reasons” and “overcrowding,” she’ll be confined to her home for 40 days and will be under the supervision of a probation officer. Right. And Martha Stewart was jailed for a year?

If the L.A. County Sheriff’s Office wanted to make an example of Ms. Hilton, they totally botched the job. Rumor has it, she was refusing to eat the food served to her while in prison. I can’t imagine these eating habits are too different from her normal routine. And she clearly took her sentence seriously – she didn’t stay at the MTV Movie Awards the whole time. Just long enough to have an excuse to get her extensions re-done for her mugshot before checking in to the slammer.

So, let me get this straight: I could get arrested for drunk driving, convicted of driving on a suspended license, starve myself in jail and receive my get-out-of-jail-free card? No? That route is reserved for people with more money than brains? Silly me. I guess I’ll just accept my lowly existence as a peon.

How long until Diane Sawyer or Barbara Walters or Katie Couric (it’ll probably be her – she’s the youngest and “hippest”) end up at Paris’s house for an interview? How long until she gets a book deal? I can just see it – The Liberation of Paris: How to Be a High-Maintenance Heiress Behind Bars and Get Released After Spending Three Nights in a Pseudo-jail.

recent happenings

My apologies for disappointing all my loyal readers (all three of you) for being absent from the blogging world the past few days or so. Nothing too exciting going on in my life since my last post, but I’ll update on a few things.

This past weekend, my fun cousin Will and his fiancé, Meredith got married. The wedding was in Batesville, Miss. at a small church, and the reception was held in the booming nearby town of Como. Great food, great cake. It was pretty much a Hubbard Family Reunion and a veritable Who’s Who? of Panola County. I have no pictures from this event, so you’ll just have to take me on my word that I was there. Needless to say, my dad, Harris and I were the only Greeks for miles.

Monday my boss, Kristen, and I left for New Orleans for a site inspection for an upcoming event that Mississippi tourism is hosting during an international tradeshow (another chance for me to get to use my Japanese business cards). Since we worked so hard until lunch and had such a difficult drive from Jackson to NOLA, we wandered around the Shops at Canal Place until it was time for dinner. On a search for some new unmentionables, I found a great boutique! I am always on the lookout for unique clothes that not everyone will have, but I of course don’t have a lot of $$$ to spend like many other state government employees. Francesca’s had really great clothes at such good prices and tons of jewelry that was really different, too. I got this dress to wear to dinner that night.

When we got back to the hotel, I had to wash hair – quite the undertaking for anyone who knows me or my high-maintenance hair. While getting all my hair equipment ready, who do I see on the TV? My dear friend and fellow Rho Chi/Gamma Chi alum, Laura Buchtel McWhirter! She’s a meteorologist in the area on WWLTV, and I was so glad to catch her broadcast. Of course with a Mississippi State degree and a lot of talent and poise on camera, she did a fantastic job and warned me of the storm systems moving into my current area. Move over, Al Roker!


After I spent the usual 2 hours from shower to dry, “fixed” hair, we went to dinner at Luke, John Besh’s newest restaurant. For those of you unfamiliar with John Besh, he’s a great up-and-coming chef and restauranteur in New Orleans. He’s been the guest chef at a culinary weekend at the Viking Cooking School, so I naturally feel a bond with him and am compelled to support his endeavors. I had Seafood Gumbo a la Creole, Louisiana Speckled Trout Meunire with Sautéed Haricot Vert (fancy term for French green beans) and Walnut Bread Pudding with Irish Crème House-made Ice Cream. Everything was amazing, and I recommend Luke or any of Besh’s other NOLA restaurants if you’re ever in the area. The next day, we had a meeting and came back to Jackson. Not nearly as exciting or fun. I did, however, pick up a Hurricane Guide featuring WWLTV meteorologist Laura Buchtel at a Subway in Hammond, LA.

On another note, Happy Late Birthday, Ashley Crawford Jones! ACE was born 26 years ago yesterday. I wish I had a baby picture, but this will have to do.

(Darren with his lovely wife Ashley. Junior Miss would be so proud.)

Sorry my blog is so boring. I’m thinking of freelancing Heather to write my new material.