Tonight, we're going into NY to have dinner with Mike and Jeffrey who we have not seen for a while. Yum, ethiopian! I also have not had ethiopian food for a while. I can't get enough of it. We're going to Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant. Yay.
Since Bill's column was not in the online version of the Times Herald today, I've decided to steal how he ends his articles. Today, I'm diggin' CSAs aka Community Supported Agriculture. Find a farm near you! CSAs are a type of "cooperative" where consumers purchase "shares" in the farm, and in return receive the produce that is farmed. Rich and I will be buying a share from the Watershed Organic Farm. It's a bit more vegetables than we're used too, but we will learn to eat better.
Tonight, I attended a lecture with Nancy Kranich who is the Chair of the ALA's Intellectual Freedom Committee. It was really interesting. Who knew it was going to be the librarians fighting the good fight for civil liberties? USA PATRIOT act, Copyright Laws, Access to Information... These issues affect a lot of people, just not librarians.
Julie's requested that I make my content more interesting by writing more about sex/drugs/rock n' roll. Luckily, Jon Bon Jovi is from New Jersey, as is the Boss. Unfortunately, I don't have anything to do with that scene. Instead, I went to class and then to Barnes and Noble. They didn't have the book I wanted, The Dante Club, in stock. I needed to pick a book that has facts in it that I can check for class. I'm assuming it has some historcal fact in it because it's labeled as "historical fiction." It's either this book or Maus; but Maus is a graphic novel, and I'm not sure if I can use it. So, instead, I bought an Indian cookbook.
Who knew it would finally catch up to us? According to a secret report released by the Pentagon, climate change will result in global catastrophe in the next 20 years. But, apparently, banning gay marriage has a greater precedent national than adverting environmental and nuclear disaster.
We had the weekly dinner tonight. We made a recipe that Henning gave us with salmon, pasta, apples, cream, mustard, honey, and dill. Lots of dill. It turned out to be a very nice dinner. Aftwards, in the downtime, we had a Biore Pore Strip (Nose) party. Scott, Cynthia, Henning, and Katy participated. Scott wins for the most gunk, Henning wins for the least. We will be doing pore stips again on Saturday before the formal.
I did manage to catch Sex in the City last night. Ally was very nice and took Katy and me to see it at Quad. It was an good episode and a very well done conclusion to the show. I have to admitt that I cried. I'm easily affected by movies, plays, etc. I still can't believe it about Mr. Big's real name, though.
Tonight is the Sex in the City series finale. I got hooked on it when I had caught a few episodes when I stayed up all night in San Antonio to catch my flight back to Chicago after Northwestern lost the Alamo Bowl in Dec. '00. I have been unsuccessful in trying to find somewhere to watch it, almost comically unsuccessful. Holly and Julie are watching it at Holly's back in Chicago; Mike, Jeffrey, and Regina are watching it at Mike's place in NYC. I'm sure there are several bars in both cities having "Sex in the City" watching parties, but I can't find anywhere in Princeton, NJ to go. I know a few people who have HBO, but I don't know them well enough to invite myself over to their homes. I also know that the various Eating Clubs and Sororities at Princeton probably have HBO, but again, there is the problem of access. Oh well.
Katy got 2 formal dresses today! They were on super sale at Macy's and hard to resist. The Princeton GC Formal is next week. It's a waltzing formal, the first that I will be attending. They'll have a live orchestral group playing 1, 2, 3 all night.
Last night, Sandrine had us over for dinner. She made a French potatos au gratin. It had sliced potatoes, sauteed onions and chunks of ham with melted wheels of french cheese on top. It was delicious. Afterwards, we headed to the D-Bar to listen to DJ Cyl spin. Somehow, it turned out to be undergraduate night. It was fun to watch them get stopped at the door and then having to go around asking graduate students if they would sign them in. They made everything very crowded.
Tonight, a bunch of us went to an Exotic Citrus event. The Flavor club at Princeton had an event where they brought in David Karp, a fruit expert, to talk about Citrus fruit. We got to sample an interesting bunch after he finished his talk. He brought various oranges that are not released on the market yet, and some funky shaped ones, like lemon/orange things shaped like hands.
Rich and I met up tonight with a bunch of Eagleton fellows at Little Spain in Newark for some Spanish food and sangria. A fellow fellow's family owns the restaurant and it serves up some excellent food. If you happen to be in Newark and need to get something to eat outside the airport, I'd recommend that you go there. Rich has discovered that he really likes sangria. I think Little Spain's sangria is the best that I've had so far.
Jaci (my former neighbor in Chicago) is engaged! Her fiance is Thaddeus, who is a chef in Chicago. Woo hoo!
Last night (Valentine's Day) there was a Princeton grad Valentine's Day dance sponsered by various school groups. Xcott was in charge of putting together a "computer matching" system aka the Grad Match. People logged into a website and filled out various survey questions. Xcott's program then matched people based on how their answers were graphed in Euclidean space (or something like that). Everything worked, most guys got around 3 or 4 matches while the women typicall received 5-8 matches. Good job, Xcott! He put in a lot of effort into the whole thing, and it went off without a hitch. The website was hilarious too, all young Mark Hamill and David Cassidy.
I've decided to jump on the bandwagon and start my own blog. So unoriginal of me, but at least I have this so it's a bit more of my color than how it was originally on the template. It's not like I really have that much interesting to say. Rich is on his way back from Maine right now, and he's bringing back lobsters. He got them fresh off the boat this morning, for the most part. Yum. Hooray for Maine.