How to have an interesting morning commute in 11 easy steps ( Read more... )

Saturday night was Tequila 2005, my friends' annual tequila party. Sunday was Hangover 2005. This is the second year in a row where I've had a grand total of three margaritas, walked out of the party under my own power and in a relatively coherent state, and yet felt like everloving crap the next day. I actually felt my immune system collapse ( Read more... )

The wedding shower was a big success, as long as you ignore the elder relatives' comments that it "sure was different!", which I am. We did an Asian theme, so one of the bridesmaids organized a selection of exotic teas (iced because it was freaking hot on Saturday), and I did Asian-themed appetizers, and another bridesmaid made beautiful origami ( Read more... )

Summer has arrived in San Francisco, which means that it's really cold and foggy. D. and I took the dog to the beach yesterday; we wore heavy jackets and sweaters and didn't get too cold, and the dog played fetch with all and sundry. D. takes him down there when he surfs and lets him run the beach, and the dog has made lots of friends who are ( Read more... )

I just spend a fabulous weekend with various LJ people. I have to admit that I was a bit nervous about meeting everybody in person, but once I recovered from the shock that none of them look or sound anything like what I pictured, it has been nonstop fun. All of this meeting up was precipitated by asta77 and writteninstars and Kim (whose LJ name I, in my clever way ( Read more... )

First of all, since it's the 16th where she is, I want to get a jump on wishing the lovely and talented and eminently lickable poshcat a very happy birthday!

( Random workweek things, cut for eye-glazing boringness )

Yes, another Gratuitous Soup Post.

I'm back in the land of "dude" now, where the hair is not as big (unless in an intentionally ironic, postmodern, hipster way) and "pen" is not a two-syllable word. My flights both ways were trouble-free. I had left my car at D.'s to avoid street sweeping, and last night when I got in my battery was dead. ( Read more... )

I hope all my American friends had a good Thanksgiving, and all my non-American ones aren't too sick of the Thanksgiving posts.

( My Thanksgiving )

I dogsat last night and today while D. and his fiancée were snowboarding in Tahoe. Today I had brunch with M. and his (now) wife at the Market Bar in the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero. They have a big outdoor patio, and since today was one of those picture-perfect, clear fall days where you can count the houses on the hills 20 miles away ( Read more... )

From the Name Site, gacked from everyone ( Read more... )