Just got in from a long evening...failed attempt at developing film...a nice long auto tour of Dunwoody...yummy chili in a bread bowl...watching the telethon (none of us got to talk to Jack Nicholson)...vicious hat-napping (I've turned to a life of crime; it's quite sad.) Now I need to pack for the roadtrip to Asheville. Which involves me being in Duluth at 9:00 (Jessica, I'll try my best!) Night night...

How can it get to 85 degrees today when it was so cold this morning? Must get HOAD sponsor info to sign company; must makes edits to Holiday Giving Guide; must call agency contact for feature story info; must start working on MLK Service Summit collateral. Ooh, that means must soon get some printing quotes. Hence must call printers. I swear they played this song an hour ago. I think when DJs change shifts they don't keep track of what the last DJ just played. Or they don't care. I'm going to Callanwolde after work to play in the darkroom. Then to Asheville Satuday/Sunday for bachelorette party. Woo hoo! I-I-I keep on falling in and out of love with you.....

Sooooo....I had lunch today with John, known around the communications & recruitment department as "cute printer boy." (By the way, I learned there's no quicker way to get hell from this department than to have a lunch date.) It was nice. He picked me up, let me pick the restaraunt (Touch of India - yum), and walked me back in when we got back. Lots of getting-to-know-you-type chitchat. He talked a lot about his dog, and I didn't have to be back to work right away, so we went by his apt. to walk his dog. Shannon (co-worker) made a good point in that you don't take people to meet your dog on a business lunch. John lives next door to Nomenclature and told me a very amusing story about going there right after he moved in. I think he's slowly learning what it means to live in Midtown. So yeah, it was a really good time, I hinted heavily that we should do it again or hang out on the weekend sometime. I wish I had his e-mail address...I can e-mail a guy much more easily than I can call him. But I have a good feeling about seeing him again (outside work stuff that is -- if nothing else, I can call him about the newsletter he's printing for me & go from there.) OK, that's my story. Hope you enjoyed it. I did. :)

Listening to Tina Turner here in room 8. I'm doing a bunch of icky text formatting stuff, and I'm saving frequently since the network went wacky yesterday when the power flickered & I lost a bunch of work. Going out in an hour or so for a lunch meeting, lunch date, not quite sure what it is...but it involves some free lunch, so I've got that going for me. Went to do trivia at a bar w/ co-workers last night. Did you know that "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was Simon & Garfunkel's longest-running #1 song? I suspected as much, but everyone else thought it was "Mrs. Robinson." See what happens when people don't listen to me? Back to Quark....

I'm not feeling too focused on work. We had a long (but good) staff meeting & then my dept. went to Doc Chey's for Stephanie's birthday, so my brain seems to be saying "You haven't really worked yet today; why start now?" We had a couple of speakers from the Islam community in staff meeting. I hadn't realized before how close Islam and Christianity beliefs are. (My college Eastern Philosophy course went in one ear and out the other...I'm sure fellow Breanu alums are with me on this. It was baaad.)

I'm feeling all fallish and decided to wear "real" (i.e. closed-toed) shoes today. My loafers are rubbing my heels a bit. But it's OK. I hope it's cool enough soon for my pretty new leather pants. And sweaters. And apple cider. Yay, fall.

Yay, it works! I am a technical mastermind. Well, not really. At all. What I am is very tired b/c I worked all day & went to class & just ate a piece of Stephanie's dry birthday cake (no fault of her own), and my bed is calling my name. I'm going it answer it now. More later...stay tuned kids.

*Tap tap*...is this thing on?