MLev arrived at 10 Fri night and fortunately for me, even though she's on Mountain Time, she only wanted one beer before bed. I've described our Saturday. Sat night was the annual Alpine Club dinner. GMac cancelled as I was starting to get ready for the event due to what turned out to be a stomach bug. I had a doozy of a stomach bug last month, so ( Read more... )

The nice thing about having 3 nights in a row of parties is that I took out my makeup case on Thursday and didn't put it back again until Sunday. I even shhhhh wore the same dress twice. Economies of scale! woohoo! ( I took a level in eye shadow )

One of the great things about my life is the eclectic assortment of people and influences in it. Having the thoughts of a Real! Live! Artist! show up in my Twitter feed has made me think a lot about creation. Maybe it's Nayland's own biases and work, but it seems to me that a lot of art these days is derivative, in a not-necessarily bad way. We ( Read more... )

Several of my female LJ friends have talked over the years about how they (we) have so many different hobbies and interests, we never develop the close circle of female friends that many other, more feminine women do. I think part of the reason those friends have stuck with LJ more is that we have a community online. Some of it too is that we aren' ( Read more... )

Last week was tough: I had 5 productive days in a row, taking my shiny streak to 7, but I whined whined whined the whole way through. My Friday plans fell through when we couldn't get confirmation that there'd be a hardpoint at that night's party. Instead, I had an unusually frank conversation with my mum about my love life and then had dinner with ( Read more... )

I have emails from the MIT Enterprise Forum about 3 different events in the next two weeks, about making NYC a tech mecca, biz plan presentations, and hearing from the current director of the Media Lab, but I can't get excited about any of them. The answer to the first is no critical mass of entrepreneurial people and I'm tired of talking about pie ( Read more... )

Maybe it's just that I went to Secret Science Club on Weds, which always reminds me of Pleasure Salon, if the latter were about science and had a speaker, ( science rocks for realz )

I appreciate y'all's comments on the accident post. By the time I finally wrote it, I was over the initial shock - and even ready to go back to climbing - but I'm finding this was quite a life-changing event. Funny enough, my orthodontist of all people commented, "Maybe this happened for a reason, so you could recognize the gravity of what you do ( Read more... )

It's been a little weird hearing the media talk about the Arab revolt while reading about T. E. Lawrence. I finished the first chapter of Hero before going to hear the author at the weirdest talk I've ever been to. It was sponsored by the NY Historical Society, but held at the Society for Ethical Culture bc the former's building is being renovated ( Read more... )

Thurs night, I went to a random women's networking event to which I was invited by a chick from the last MITEF event I went to, mostly bc it was a tasting (and discussion) of MarieBelle chocolate. ( Read more... )