happy birthday kristin! welcome to 23!

marie - how hip and new york are you? you are totally DONE with the mercer kitchen man. it's cool enough that you worked there in the first place, let alone that you've made out with everyone there and moved on!

madison i'm still kicking around the idea of coming up there this weekend - i'll keep you posted ha ha ha lame joke. anyway i'd love to have a drink at genna's happy hour with you guys. l8r, i'm going to work now.

Happy Birthday Kristen!

August birthdays are the best birthdays.

I'm just watching CNN from Canada looking at all the hurricane sadness. The governor of Mississippi has claimed that this is their tsunami, which I think is a little insensitive considering the state of Southeast Asia and all the insurance that will cover homes lost in Southeast Mississippi. It does look devestating though. Flattened palm trees never looked so sad.

The weather totally sucks today in Vancouver. It's cold and raining and it's marking the beginning of fall here. It doesn't bother me so much when it rains, just when it does for days at a time. It makes everyone cranky. I think it makes being home and cooking and watching movies cozier.

Well, I have to go find a way to entertain my out-of-town visiter without getting him wet. Maybe Granville Island for a delicious latte or something.

In conclusion,
Meghan

So you haven't seen him either?

I'm not sure what that title is all about. It was suggested by my laptop. So what kind of shoes were those that allowed the fancy water running? I need some new ones. My friend is in town for a few days and I feel kind of like a bad hostess because I'm so tired. Thankfully he has another friend here.

We went to the Vancouver Art Gallery yesterday to see the Rodin exhibit and I was more impressed with the shows on the other floors. All the Rodin sculptures (for those who don't know, he sculpted the Thinker and I kept picturing Will Ferrell the whole time I was wandering around in there) were copies of the "originals" of which there were also many copies that Rodin himself didn't even make. He would sculpt one and then his little factory workers would copy those and cast them and sell them. They would even change the sizes--the original thinker is quite small.

So this raises many questions with me about whether or not this show is worthy of a VAG appearance. It's like going to a tribute concert. In Prague there would always be these flyers that would say NIRVANA tribute band like they were really fooling anybody.

My friend is coming home from Montreal soon--finally--so all photoshoots resume tomorrow. Can we post photos on here?

Maybe I'll show you some later.

Nederberg

I just pulled a fruit fly out of my wine because frankly I think he'd had enough.

OMG liz - i am so happy you are back safe and sounnd. i laughed for like 8 minutes at my desk today when i read the "by court order there is no liquor in this house" part. i know it's sadly true and i'm really sorry, but that was too too funny.

meghan i wrote you the COOLEST letter today. i'll mail it tomorrow maybe. once i figure out how many stamps to put on it. i think there is some sort of tax on awesomeness for constructing the best ever correspondence. you'll understand when you get it.

and i totally forgot about kristin's birthday. umm, maybe i'll get stephanie (strawberry) some toys. kristin! do you and saul want to come to illinois to go camping with me perhaps the weekend of labor day? or maybe i could come up to wisconsin to go camping! i don't know! we'll have to talk about it!

it is now the end of the longest work day i can remember of late....

Sneaking in the back door

Hello Kittens,
I've been a bad contributor, I know. I haven't been doing a hell of a lot this summer and as such have kind of shut my brain down for the season. Today is my last day of being 26 and not only do I feel incredibly OLD, but I feel like there's no one here to celebrate with! Everyone is out of town. Poo.
On a happy note though, it's a beautiful day and I just found out my brother might come home from China for Christmas! Yay!
Oh also, happy birthday Kristen! I know yours is coming up too. :)
I'm off to the gym for awhile to listen to all my favourite songs set to a Euro-beat.
Take care cupcakes!
Meghan

Unemployed

I am now back in Rochester.

It was a fairly uneventful flight. We almost had to land in tokyo because one of the passengers passed out, but they recovered, so we only ended up gaining about an hour of flight time or so. It DID make me lose my connecting flight to Rochester, but there was one two hours later, so it was fine.

During my short stay in chicago I went and sat at the bar at Chilli's and slammed a margarita and then had some beer and chilli. It was great.

I have also become one of those people Jason has not very nicely called a "talker"

I have been talking with everyone, the bartender, the guy next to me, people at the liqour store (the second place I went besides my house in Rochester, the first one being the new church). There is no stopping me. It's just so dang exciting to be able to communicate with people!

Also, it doesn't help that I have no earthly idea what time it is- at all, at any point in time. I'm in some wierd limbo state. It's like a permanemt buzz. It's 7:45am now, and I can't sleep, and I feel like I should be out at a bar now. Maybe I should head to perkins for breakfast. Only other people in this place do something called "work" I have none of this "work" so I am at rather loose ends, and have no one to play with.

The icing on the cake is that there is no booze in my house by order of the courts, so I'm stuck with my wonderful beer in the trunk of my car, and bringing in a bottle at a time when I try to relax before bed. (ie. take sleepy drugs and drink a beer in order to force myself to sleep during what feeling like the middle of the day)

I need a job. Badly. If anyone knows of anyone hiring, let me know! Oh, and post something so I have something to read!

This is Korea, signing out...

You're right gin, we have been super-neglecting it. Maybe once I'm back in Rochester and unemployed I'll start writing on here a few times a day...

I just got back from my last goodbye in Korea. Last night was one final crazy night in Seoul, and it was- er- crazy... We ended up getting drunk (about 20 people) and playing spin the bottle at a bar, which is rather scandelous in Korea since they don't even kiss thier boyfriends until they have been going out forever. Then we stumbled to a norea bang and sang for almost 2 hours before stumbling to another bar for some anjou (appetizers) and a few more drinks.

The next afternoon I had some really sad goodbyes and then back to my city with Meghan and Elissa for my last dinner in Korea. They both just left (they have to work tomorrow) and I'm now on the front end of my lonely all-nighter. I have to finish packing and clean my apartment hardcore, but I'm not starting yet because I don't have to finish until 5:30 am when I'm going to breakfast and starting to get ready for the flight home. Estimated departure time for the bus stop with the airport shuttle is 6:55am.

Wheels up scheduled for noon (monday) and the ETA for Chicago is 11:00am (still monday... somehow) ETA for Rochester is 2:30ish. At which point I will need all your numbers again because my cell phone died while I was here. I can't wait to see you guys, for real.

This is Korea, signing out.

oh man, what happened guys? we've neglected this word machine for too long again. kristin, it was lovely to hear from you last weekend, let's get together soon. mara - i was glad to see you in madison two weekends ago. you should both come visit me in chicago. i'll borrow some bikes and we can cruise around the city all day long.

i'm from work to go to boston this weekend with my parents. they are already there, i'll be flying in late. it should be totally weird. we're going to be staying with my aunt (fathers sister) that i spent spring break '02 with, skiing in Maine. she tried to get me to go home with the bartender of the bar we were at one night. she's crazy and makes me rather uncomfortable. they'll be drunk all weekend, i find it really hard to get loaded in front of my parents.


argh. i'm glad i'm going just because i never EVER see any of this side of the family. my cousin who is fresh back from serving in iraq will be there too, it will be interesting to see how he is.

work has been totally 'eh' lately. it's been busy and we've been shorthanded, so we can't get all of our work done, which is de-motivating to me to try to even tackle the big projects. summer wedding season is over, but fall wedding season is already picking up. wheeee.

did you know lenin's tomb is a communist plot? sorry this is boring, how about we all get together for real sometime soon?