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Stardate: Tuesday, March 11, 2003

The Incredible Shrinking Blog

Well, that was weird. For some reason, my last post disappeared for a little while, making it seem like it's been longer since I last posted than it really was!!! Now I wonder if there will be a malfunction to make that last sentence seem longer than IT was.......

Anyhoo, hows about an update, hm?

Last week was an absolute killer week for me at work. I had two extra projects in addition to what I usually work on, and was completely swamped. I didn't have much room to breathe, although those are sometimes the best days at work. Luckily, the week ended, and the weekend began.

This was the coolest part of lately. For the second weekend in a row I went out and had fun. I realize that I haven't posted the fun stuff I did the weekend before, so let me derail for a moment and talk about that.

LAST weekend I came into NYC to see Brian (co-author of JOSSOLALIA and MANGAMANIACS.COM) and his fiancee Marilyn. We went to see Daredevil. Unfortunately for 20th Century Fox, this wasn't the highlight of my day. The highlight was being able to hang out with these two wonderful people. We spent the rest of our time doing fun stuff (which, incidentally mostly involved food) and just talking. It's nice to talk to people (outside the office building) that I am not related to :)

As for Daredevil itself, I think I'll save that review for another entry as that I am straying too far from the point of this one as it is.

This past weekend I spent with my great friend Cheryl. We went to this stupendous burger place in midtown Manhattan. I will have to ask her for the name and address again, because this place was awesome. I had a burger with jack cheese, bacon and guacamole. For once, I actually finished the whole thing. I felt like a stuffed pig, but BOY was I satisfied. After that, we went to the Museum of Radio & TV. That was just the coolest place I have been to in a long time. $10 covered admission and once we were in we scheduled (at no extra cost) two hours of screening time for whatever we wanted to see. In the meantime (while we waited for our time to show up) we watched the Beatles' first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, as well as an episode of the Burns and Allen Show. The commercials in the Ed Sullivan show were really cool because they were terribly outdated. It was very funny. So much so, that when our screening time came around, Cheryl and I decided to watch a montage of Coca-Cola commercials from 1950's to 1980's. They too were very funny, but primarily quite effective. Cheryl and I concluded that we NEEDED to have cokes right after we were finished :)

We also used our screen time to watch a 1977 Tonight Show episode where Kermit the Frog guest hosted for Johnny Carson. Special guests were Vincent Price, Bernadette Peters, a musical guest (whose name escapes me) and Dr. Michael Fox (a veterinarian.) Guest appearances were made by Fozzie, Ms. Piggy, Gonzo, Scooter and a few others. It was, at least to me, VERY funny throughout. I laughed more at this than I have at any recent late night talk show in a LONG time.

After we had finished there, not feeling quite satisfied because we could have spent a whole day, nay, a whole WEEK there, we continued on to the Olive Garden where we had an excellent feast (aren't they always) and met up with a very nice friend of Cheryl's. They were going to the Tori Amos concert at Radio City @ 8pm, so at around then we parted company.

Again, I ended the day with a TREMENDOUS feeling of elation, having had a great day, beginning to end. I really should do this more often. It was great fun.
:: J 8:57 AM [+] ::
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