all that/whole grain/low fat

Fresh washed jeans
are better than saggy butt jeans
are harder to ride a bike in
sometimes cause a little muffin top.


Also, a bring your favorite cocktail party on cinco de mayo on Beulah.

rc

The cap of my halfway-there-root-canal fell off (and boy does it hurt).
"Oh, just don't eat anything sticky, or hard, or chewy, and only eat on your left for now."
Ok.

I go back tomorrow, then the next Monday, then the next Thursday - then I'll be done with my first root canal.

There's a lesson here, about bikes and trolley tracks, and about dental insurance, and helmets, and marrying rich, and blackberry tarts.

l + f

Things I've lost recently, or only recently noticed are missing:
that makeup bag with the martini on it that Kelly gave me (I think it has a toothbrush or something in it)
giant red scarf
sleeping bag

Some things I'm trying out again:
heels (well, wedges)
makeup (only a little)
jewelry (maybe something like this) -

(you could buy it for me and pick out the colors and font and even what it says and everything. I'll wear it. It's from Etsy.)

too late

Hi, It's four am, and I'm trying to figure out how to throw up dinner from a certain restaurant that you all work at.
I feel so sick.
More root canal stuff tomorrow. So much to look forward to.

science

let the Craigslist experiement begin!

My friend Holly is trying to go on ten craigslist dates this summer, to help us learn what the world of free-personal ads really has to offer single girls.

No promise of a serious long term relationship resulting (obviously, she’s trying for ten dates, with a compare and contrast-type outcome) - but that’s not to say that the date won’t blossom into something beautiful…

About Holly: 30, information scientist in Philadelphia. Likes comic books, literature, movies, videogames. Excellent cook, interested in the arts, drives a super cute scooter, great at (insightful but) sarcastic comments. Likes cats and dogs, and rock shows and crafts.
Never married, no kids. One slightly childish roommate.

About You: hopefully in the -/+5 years (25-35) with a job, and interests, ideas of places to go on dates. Hopefully, you don’t have any weirdo fetishes, like that swiss cheese guy who posted last week.

About the Date: She’s going to take notes (but really, every girl is. Learn about it) – cause I told you, it’s like science will be happening, and you want to be a part of that, right? Don’t expect it to be a “one date = sex” thing, ‘cause it’s not that either.

Ideas for dates (in case you’re bad at it): movies (action/comicbook/something bad with Nick Cage/HP6), dinners at good restaurants that you’re disinclined to visit with your friends, the ferry to the Aquarium, obscure but good bands, amusement parks, mini-golf…c’mon. You can do it. Think up something good.

Anyway, we’ll be perusing replies and hope to get back to everyone so Holly can go on ten good dates this summer! Who knows…maybe you’ll knock her socks off, and she’ll quit the experiment after meeting you?

email (and please, yes send a picture or your facebook page or something), and she'll get back to you!

Currently sifting through responses.

funny games

1. We might go camping in Letchworth State park for Lilley's wedding? "Camping" means staying in a place with walls and bathrooms, but maybe bonfires too.

2. Maryilyn told me that Conrad announced to everyone that he's "good with girls", and I wonder who told him that/how he got that idea in his head.

3. My dad sent me this picture of his cat today


4. Last night (I forgot to mention) that the movie was saw at the Riverview last night was the one for deaf people. Where, across the bottom of the screen it says "soft soulful guitar begins" and then later (to show the music is still playing, two little music notes on screen. Along with all the dialog. Heading in that direction, which made it even funnier.

(Melissa said lists are better than paragraphs. She actually told me to tell you, Andy, but I thought I could take a hint too).

88°

Sunday was a perfect day, Lou Reed style. Woke up, went to the park in the AM and did blankets and books til temperatures called for showers. The rest was free food, seeing everyone in the world in NoLibs, playing games (we played Set Cubed - it's set/scrabble/dice/dominoes, and is alright) at the comic book shop, giant cinco de mayo celebrations with men painted in silver and eloborate faux-mummer outfits, frozen drinks, steak dinners, and going to the movies.

At the Riverview, it seems that everyone else in the whole world thought it was a good night to see Beyonce go bananas, but we picked Observe and Report, which was a little funny, but in that "cute or sad?" way, like when they have websites about dogs who have wheelchairs, or squirrels wearing casts.