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I've never really thought about Nicole Kidman one way or the other. I mean... she looks perfect and she's really talented, and I've enjoyed most everything I've seen her in (and Dogville is just Dogville), and it has nothing to do with me or my aspirations. Nothing to learn there. She's a species apart, blah blah blah.

This piece in the NYTimes is really interesting though. Just in terms of talking about how she's been able to take a certain coldness and brittleness that she unavoidably gives off (and it's bone structure as much as anything else) and run with it and just how unusual that is.

It's also a funny piece because Kat and I were just talking about a variant of this, which is that Kat said that directors really get off on destroying her because she's so beautiful. At the time, I had a very mixed feeling about the comment, but certainly agreed it was extremely true in places. Thinking about it now, I am reminded of the little boy who was my neighbor as a child. And how we dropped his mother's china figurines on their carpet over and over to watch them bounce, until eventually, they broke.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/movies/02SCOT.html

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Today, I'm going to Citibank to make them return to me the money they took out of my account because they are incompetent. I am absurdly nervous about this.

This includes the $500 they claim I never deposited. And a number of nasty fees as the entire thing spiraled out of control.

I should have all the paperwork I need to show them they error of their ways, but this is the sort of stuff that drives me insane and always seems to be beyond their capabilities to comprehend.