Thanks again to sgtkane for recommending Con Ed, bc it was the perfect introduction to the world of con men. It's set during the first dot-com boom and updates the classic games to the modern age, reminding us that the technology is new, but the game is not. The protagonist is a player who has not successfully tried to stick to the straight and narrow, ( Read more... )

Thurs, I met my closest friend in the sorority - who I actually met through MTG - for lunch in Brooklyn. I had forgotten just how much she can talk, but she's also an MIT mother of 4. I got to hear all about her four labors and homeschooling and her rant about breastfeeding. Yaay ( Read more... )

I don't really have anything to talk about, I just feel chatty.

1) How much does my husband love me? He made me a lamb belly sandwich on potato bread bun with Carolina pepper sauce (to which I added all the relish) even though he didn't want any. aww ( Read more... )

• Airplay, or whatever magic makes the stereo play my iPod
  
• my handsome, witty husband-to-be who fixes everything from empty stomachs to computers
  
• frozen vegetables
  
• The Who
  
• feeling empowered about my appearance

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 rest of my trip to Seattle was quite nice as well. Fri morning, I woke early and packed. When the older couple and my tentmate woke up, I convinced them to go to breakfast at The Copper Creek Inn. I was a good girl and ate scrambled eggs before moving on to my breakfast, homemade blackberry pie with ice cream. I'm not a huge pie fan in general ( 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 )

I've been telling my mother that I've gotten everything I wanted from the process of getting married, except the legal status.

Venue: I was eleven kinds of scowly but visited the Yale Club to keep the peace with my mother. I was even more grouchy after seeing the large event spaces on the higher floors, but then they took me to the library (and ( Read more... )

I've never been anywhere that required context more than Venice. Without it, Venice is an old town with bizarre transportation; with context, Venice is a glittering museum, a carefully preserved monument to trade and its benefits. Julian arranged for a private historic walking tour that included take-home maps and charts. How cool is that? I don't ( Read more... )

* I'm annoyed at how difficult OverDrive makes it to download the library's audiobooks onto my iPhone. I'm more okay with this however than The Teaching Company, which sells very expensive lectures that I have bought, that I can't download to either of my iDevices bc my computers need to be synced. I pay a lot less for Audible's books, and I don't ( Read more... )