Happy Monday.

Hope y'all all had good weekends.

Al - how is the Master of Cheese?

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Answers

What a busy weekend.

We went to the planetarium, went to the fancy pizza place, went to the gym, where I tried to spin my ass off, went shopping, planted more flowers, went to dinner, ate a lot at dinner, went hiking, and went to a play. And made gnocchi.

It was busy.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

We: went to the Byron Nelson, saw Tiger Woods, sweat a lot, drank a lot of water, saw Sergio Garcia, left, went and ate Teppanyaki, and were tired after. Oh, and we ordered an iMac.

Busy weekends! Mother's Day was lovely.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Sweet! You'll need that iMac when you come to Atlanta, and you can also use it to find out more thigns abotu Atlanta.

That's right.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

God, I'm a big lame-o. I uh, got drunk by myself on Friday night, got drunk with Sara on Saturday night, and worked on my Spain scrapbook yesterday. Ah, the life of a single gal. Aren't y'all all envious.

AB - what pushed the iMac ahead of the Cube? Did the people speak?

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

We're coming to Atlanta? Excellent.

H - The people spoke, and lost. I had 12 votes for the cube, and only 4 for the iMac. But it is much less expensive, and came with a free printer, and is prettier. So it won. We're selling our old one to my mom and dad, at an inflated price. Heh. Kidding. Maybe.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Hi, My name is T, and it's early, and I haven't had my grits yet, and I can't read.

I think I'll go shopping now.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

T, you and Mad Madeleine need to get together. She has grits every morning. Cheese, preferably.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Then Mad and I had the same thing this morning!

I know they're instant, but they're just so tasty. They're especially good when you put bacon bits on top.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

AB - you're selling your Micron to your parents?

Now you're a full Mac household. Excellent.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

She actually likes the cheese and bacon flavors mixed together. I think it's sort of gross, but hey, whatever works.

Did I ever send you that recipe I found for fried cheese grits?

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

No! Oh my god - I bet it's delicious.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Yeah, H. Vince is sort of scared, as he's never used a Mac, but he's all excited because they have some sort of crazy music software only for Mac. And he's all a rockstar and everything.

What do y'all think of putting a column on my journal that Matt would do, called "Ask Mr. Pharmacist Rock Star"? People could ask pharmacy/rock star-related questions. I think it would be funny.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

T, I'll find it and send it to you.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Uh, I think people would flock to ask Matt just about anything.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Did everyone remember to call their mom?

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

I think so, too. I have a picture of him in his pharmacist's smock, pouring a Coors Light into a medicine bottle. I think it will be perfect.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Madeleine didn't call me, but then, she was here. I called my mom and Vince's, because I'm good.

Al, Vince gave me that Zen Writing Board thing from Origins. It's the coolest thing I ever got.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

It must've been the Origins mother's day. I gave my mom the salt scrub and body mousse.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

He gave me that too! Except the body mousse was the Ginger Souffle lotion. Master V rocks.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Actually, it was the Ginger Souffle! Weird.

And of course, I bought myself more salt scrub. That stuff is amazing. I love Origins.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

It's not weird, you and Master V just clearly have good taste.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Hee. Yes, we do.

Mike! The date? Spill it.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Hi. I'm L_L. Man.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

It went fine. I'm calling her after work today, and we'll see how that goes.

It's been so long since I'd double-dated that I forgot what a weird dynamic that can be.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Uh, Berman? We're not going to let you get away with that.

Wehre did you go? What's she like? How old is she? What does she do? How does she know your SIL? Come ON!

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Seriously, Berman. Or are you writing about it in your journal?

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

I might write about it in my journal, but probably won't. Here's the cliffs notes:

She works with my sister-in-law, as an elementary school teacher (my SIL's a speech therapist at the same school). She's a year younger than I am, I think. She and I went with my brother and SIL to dinner, and then went somewhere else for drinks afterwords.

What else?

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

I'm here.

The Master of Cheese had quite the good weekend.

The tears in his eyes when I gave him the folk music anthology... y'all don't know. He had to have a moment of silence.

Also, the Georgia book I gave him... he carried it around like a security blanket.

I got it Friday night and we watched the Peach Battle on Iron Chef, in which my beloved Sakai was, of course, victorious.

Saturday we did the graduation stuff and headed up to Austin to see Omar and Trejo in the Latino Comedy Project Sells Out. It was the funniest damn thing I've ever seen. In my life. I took Chris to dinner at this fancy Italian place in downtown Austin. We had a fantastic time.

Sunday we went to see the San Antonio Missions take on the Midland Rockhounds. The Missions, sans Chin-Feng, lost 1-0. Pitiful. The Puffy Taco made a brief appearance - he comes out during the 7th inning stretch to let a kid chase him around the bases and tackle him - and I saw him wiping away tears with his lettuce veil because he misses Chin-Feng so much. Me, too, Puffy T. Me, too.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Al's the best!

I'll be back latah, peeps. Got to go retrieve the sort-of fixed computer, and take the retriever to the vet.

See that? Retrieve, retriever? Yeah, I know, I'm funny.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Allison. That sounds great! Did y'all spend the night in Austin? Poor Puffy T. What did Chris say when you told him you broke the two week rotation?

Mike - tell us what she's like. Come on, man. You know the process around these MATH parts by now.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

She seems very nice, although she gave my brother grief for his parallel parking woes. They just leased a Ford Explorer, and he apparently had a hard time squeezing it into the parking space.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Allison, I find it oddly appropriate that it was the Peach Battle.

Y'all, I hate my job so much. I am miserable. Hate. Hate. Hate.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

But you get to travel to D.C. for it!

What's the hate about?

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Lots of crazy people here. Just crazy.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Yes, T, the MOC was all about it being a sign that it was the Peach battle, too. Incidentally, they have some crazy-ass looking peaches in Japan. The Iron Chef made this duck dish with peaches. It looked so good.

I am full of hate about my job as well, so I understand.

The MOC was happy about the two-week rotation being broken, he claims. I am sure the spreadsheet in his mind was melting down, though. Of course, it isn't broken until two weeks from now. I won't see him until Memorial Day weekend, and then the week after that.

M, don't fault the new girl for hating on the bro's parking skills. Surely, she was just nervous and trying to act all tough. Also, Explorers are a beyatch to park, and not just parallel.

It was a good weekend. We spent the whole time talking about weddings - which was bizarre - but nice.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

You need to melt that spreadsheet so it becomes a one week rotation.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

I know, but it's ok. We can stand to spend time apart, it's just harder now, because we decided we want to be together. You know what I mean?

But I have band stuff to do on the weekends and he surely would like some time where he can just sit around and do nothing - well, nothing but smoke.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

L_L!

T, I sent you an e-mail re: the Exodus to ATL. Peruse at your convenience.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Got it. I'll look opver it this afternoon.

Yay! Atlanta! So many exciting things.

I have been instructed to bring two nice dresses to Charleston. So, I'm going shopping during lunch.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Would that make Chris Smoked Gouda?

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Smoked gouda... mmm...

I am going wandering in search of lunch. I cannot go to Whole Foods anymore, or I will surely get arrested under suspicion of casing the joint. Also, I found out my dear Uncle Ben's Rice Bowls were attempting to kill me with their 1450 sodium count, so I have to figure out another option.

I believe I will consult the fine culinary experts at La Madeleine.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Uncle Ben!

Y'all, I need a good full body massage. I'm dying. And then I'd like to have one every week.

But I am going to start having monthly pedicures. I wear sandels enough that it's totally worth it.

Just thought I'd share.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

An excellent idea.

Ok. I just updated. Y'all go read it and let me know what it needs before I DHAK.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Al. It's great.

A kitty cat.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Very excellent.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

That's really good.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

I'm writing an entry on fantasy baseball. Watch for it soon.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Ooh! Write about the victims of fantasy baseball, forced to sit through an otherwise nice dinner while their boyfriend and his league- mate talk about Griffey and their teams and the other league guys for hours. Then, you can talk about how it is in.ter.min.able. for the victims, and how it makes them drink a whole bottle of wine during the dinner. And stuff.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

And you can quote me as saying "I read every one of the usatoday.com's fantasy baseball columns and still only know enough to communicate with a basic few words and sign language."

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

I have nothing to say, but refuse to let Allison be the L_L.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

You're a good man, Mike Berman.

I went shopping at lunch and bought too many clothes. That's okay, though. Just remember that having a Banana Republic a half-mile away, where all the people know your name, is a very Dangerous Thing.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Can I say how amused I am at the thought of the Banana Republic people greeting T as though she were on Cheers?

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Mike Berman, keeping it real like Holyfield.

Ah... Banana... how I love thee. What did you buy, T?

You know what's also dangerous? Whataburger.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Y'all know what I don't get? How, with SiteMeter, you can see how many pages people visited and their visit length, and sometimes it will say that someone was on my index2 page for zero seconds.

Does that mean they hit my page and decide in .005 seconds they don't want to read it and they just leave immediately?

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

I bought cute clothes for Charleston, as I was instructed on Saturday to bring two nice dresses for dinner.

So, I bought a silk/linen v-neck, empire waist sleeveless dress that is sort of a peach/pink color, and also a silk cardigan to wear if it gets chilly, and also to have something to cover my shoulders with.

It's a great dress, and I could also wear it to an afternoon wedding, or to dinner during the weekend, and to a reception at this conference I'm going to in Savannah in July.

Then, I bought a striped linen tailored halter-top thing, and a red skirt to go with it. It's the sexier of the two.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

I can see how there would be a toss-up between Whataburger and La Madeleine, seriously. They're both so good.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Allison: If that's the only page they view (and with you that's probable since they don't have to click somewhere else to read the current entry) then the tracker has no way of knowing how long they were on the page. The only way the time thing works is if they have more than one page view.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I didn't even think of that...

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Allison, I'm glad you asked that question, because I as wondering the same thing (namely, why so many people only stayed at my site for less than a second.

Oh. I bought the bew Destiny's Child this weekend. We were listening to it on the way to Decatur, and "Nasty" was on, and Chris said, "Wait - these hoochies are telling some girl to wear decent clothes?" I replied that Beyonce's mother made all their outfits, so it's okay for them to dress like hoochies, because it's Mrs. Knowles- sanctioned.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Did y'all see the MTV Cribs where they went to their house? Beyonce's room was all designed by her mom. Aaaaaawful.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

A'ight, y'all, I'm out. Hasta manana. 'Cause I'm a Survivor.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Poor, slow MATH afternoon.

I'm out too. Must go work out. I need to update, and wanted to write something about my mom and grandmother. Would it be weird if I did, and then didn't upload it till tomorrow?

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

I don't think it would be.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Naw, it wouldn't be weird. Tomorrow, I'm writing about this past weekend. Sort of.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001