a quick post before everyone wakes up
so today is the first day in a couple since i have been here in atlanta that i need not wake up worried because my work event is over. i did the best i could, the folks imparted the knowledge and ate some food and all i need to think about is going back home with my friend sarah and kim in tow? toe? whatever, with me. so why then am i writing to you dear reader at 6:55am? i don't know. i can't sleep, so i figured while i could lay and stress out in the nicest, whitest, fluffiest guest bed i have ever slept in, i could also get up, write some work emails and do a quick little posty post.
my time in the atl has been divine. staying with sarah and kim has been so nice because i would get to come home (to their house) and just hang out with them. it was sort of like an extended sleep over. and yesterday when i got home so tired at 10pm (i had a lovely indian dinner with my friend kir, which was great, but after a long day of work and TWO, count them TWO heinekens, i was beat) i was overjoyed to find sarah and kim's puppy mrs. ru ru (aka ruthie) with her orange and blue brooklyn shirt on. this dog LOVES to wear clothes. my favorite thing she wears is a red hoody. i should get her a brooklyn hoody. i wonder if they make them for dogs. now on my list of things to look into. anywho, ru ru was adorable, kim was quickly falling asleep on the couch (she works like 30 hours a day- its ridiculous) and so sarah and i got to watch the worse episode of svu something i have ever seen. who told ice t he could act? and when oh when will he cut that ridiculous ponytail off? i mean for the love of god and all that is good, cut it off ice.
i got to have lunch with my friend molly (everybody's pizza- i got a mini olive pizza she got a gargantuan salad that she ate 1/4 off) and my other friend stacia (i got sushi at cox hall on campus, she got pizza). and then last night sarah, kim and i met up with our friends angie and elin at the gravity pub and oogled and googled (looked at, not looked up online) at the hot server ashley. perhaps i should call her hot ashley (like hot donna on that 70s show). well hot ashley said something about her hair color and how she has to dye the grey out. and i was like "wow how old are you b/c you look to young to have grey hair" (i was also secretly doing recon work for the table to find out how much younger she is than us). she explained she has had grey hair since she was 22. then the rest of the table talked about their grey hairs to which i replied "i think grey hair is sexy, i can't wait to get some" kim gave me the finger (for not having grey hair) and then hot ashley said "well i am not sure grey hair is all that sexy on me" to which i replied "i am certain everyone at this table thinks it is" she laughed like the little coy vixen she is and promptly walked to the next table. i think she wants us.
overall, my work thing was a success. i had a bit of spell when i found out the faculty member from stanford had to cancel his lecture here at emory on tuesday b/c his flight was cancelled. i was not in charge of this lecture per se, it was more put on by anthro and school of public health, but it just reminded me that such things can happen and my panel could never show up and i would have to do shadow puppets for the audience. but alas, he made it here just fine and did a great job on the panel too. the panel itself was two teaching center directors and two faculty members. there was one director and faculty from stanford and one faculty and director from university of michigan. so of the four person panel it was one man and three women. and the these three women were all wicked smart, really powerful to be around because of their confidence and poise and all really tall. i mean seriously like six feet. so when i picked them up in my hoopty rental car, it was like who sits in front? because they all had legs for days. i got pretty good feedback from the faculty i talked to about the panel and i know i felt it brought a great deal of important information to emory's campus, so i think it was a good start. and the dinner was nice too. i was a bit stressed b/c they gave us two tables of eight instead of one long table of sixteen, but a number of attendees said it was good and they loved that it was outside- and luckily it did not rain, so that is good too.
it is raining now in atlanta and i hope that does not affect our flight. or the fact that delta is dumping flights like crazy because they are broke. i just want to get back to brooklyn and eat a slice of joe's pizza. oh i can taste it now.
my time in the atl has been divine. staying with sarah and kim has been so nice because i would get to come home (to their house) and just hang out with them. it was sort of like an extended sleep over. and yesterday when i got home so tired at 10pm (i had a lovely indian dinner with my friend kir, which was great, but after a long day of work and TWO, count them TWO heinekens, i was beat) i was overjoyed to find sarah and kim's puppy mrs. ru ru (aka ruthie) with her orange and blue brooklyn shirt on. this dog LOVES to wear clothes. my favorite thing she wears is a red hoody. i should get her a brooklyn hoody. i wonder if they make them for dogs. now on my list of things to look into. anywho, ru ru was adorable, kim was quickly falling asleep on the couch (she works like 30 hours a day- its ridiculous) and so sarah and i got to watch the worse episode of svu something i have ever seen. who told ice t he could act? and when oh when will he cut that ridiculous ponytail off? i mean for the love of god and all that is good, cut it off ice.
i got to have lunch with my friend molly (everybody's pizza- i got a mini olive pizza she got a gargantuan salad that she ate 1/4 off) and my other friend stacia (i got sushi at cox hall on campus, she got pizza). and then last night sarah, kim and i met up with our friends angie and elin at the gravity pub and oogled and googled (looked at, not looked up online) at the hot server ashley. perhaps i should call her hot ashley (like hot donna on that 70s show). well hot ashley said something about her hair color and how she has to dye the grey out. and i was like "wow how old are you b/c you look to young to have grey hair" (i was also secretly doing recon work for the table to find out how much younger she is than us). she explained she has had grey hair since she was 22. then the rest of the table talked about their grey hairs to which i replied "i think grey hair is sexy, i can't wait to get some" kim gave me the finger (for not having grey hair) and then hot ashley said "well i am not sure grey hair is all that sexy on me" to which i replied "i am certain everyone at this table thinks it is" she laughed like the little coy vixen she is and promptly walked to the next table. i think she wants us.
overall, my work thing was a success. i had a bit of spell when i found out the faculty member from stanford had to cancel his lecture here at emory on tuesday b/c his flight was cancelled. i was not in charge of this lecture per se, it was more put on by anthro and school of public health, but it just reminded me that such things can happen and my panel could never show up and i would have to do shadow puppets for the audience. but alas, he made it here just fine and did a great job on the panel too. the panel itself was two teaching center directors and two faculty members. there was one director and faculty from stanford and one faculty and director from university of michigan. so of the four person panel it was one man and three women. and the these three women were all wicked smart, really powerful to be around because of their confidence and poise and all really tall. i mean seriously like six feet. so when i picked them up in my hoopty rental car, it was like who sits in front? because they all had legs for days. i got pretty good feedback from the faculty i talked to about the panel and i know i felt it brought a great deal of important information to emory's campus, so i think it was a good start. and the dinner was nice too. i was a bit stressed b/c they gave us two tables of eight instead of one long table of sixteen, but a number of attendees said it was good and they loved that it was outside- and luckily it did not rain, so that is good too.
it is raining now in atlanta and i hope that does not affect our flight. or the fact that delta is dumping flights like crazy because they are broke. i just want to get back to brooklyn and eat a slice of joe's pizza. oh i can taste it now.
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