Guess what?

It's Friday.

I just returned from an excellent lunch with Gleis and Co. A tasty goat cheese concoction was accompanied by a Stella and conversation as if no time had passed. I miss him. He not only made my job tolerable, he actually made it fun. There were numerous people who attempted to hone in on that shit, but I'm glad the 3 of us stuck to the plan. We needed it to be the original posse.

Hayden's going to get confirmed. The Democrats took the administration's bait and hook move of letting the Intelligence Committees in on the NSA thing the day before the hearings began leaving them with little else but some snappy soundbites. This is going to make it harder to be outraged about the domestic spying issue as Hayden said he was in on the whole idea. I don't know if I'm just tired or what but I'm having a hard time mustering outrage about this. I guess because something that was going to be a big old fight once again got deflated by typical political maneuvering. Alito...Roberts...WMDS...the Patriot Act...it's okay to be outraged, just don't do anything about it.

The Senate is going to pass an immigration bill that most likely doesn't stand a chance in hell of remaining intact once it hits the House. My favorite amendments thus far are the ridiculously silly, completely symbolic (though symbolic of what I'm not sure) language ones. One declared English to be the national language of the U.S. The other deemed English the "common and unifying language." Way to waste some time on 2 useless and covoluted amendments that cancel each other out.

I have obviously been spending entirely too much time concerned about insignificant issues like CIA confirmations and Ramadi and immigration as I somehow missed Britney's announcement that she's pregnant again!!!!! Prince Caspian isn't going to be released until '08!!!!! Nicole Kidman is engaged to a country singer!!!!! And Tyra Banks is racist!!!!! (That last one's from Slate. God, I love Slate for writing an article connected with America's Next Top Model--one of the best shows on television. Hands down.)

Anyone feel like being shallow and pop culture-y soon?
I'm down.