The Airport, My Second Home: Its shaping up to be another very busy travel year for me (with absolutely no complaints) As it is shaping up right now:
June- Denver (work and pleasure)
July- Connecticut (in the car...escape from city to see Hilary and Steve)
August- Nothing right now but hope to get away for a weekend or something
September- Los Angeles and Palm Desert, CA (all pleasure)
October- Atlanta (Girl Scouts National Conference...hope to see cousin Amy too)
October- Denver and San Fran (work, but hope to see Shelby and Seth in Bay Area)
November- Washington DC (work)
November- Cleveland (Thanksgiving)
December- nothing right now
January- Mexico (with Mom, Dad and Kevin)
February- Austin and Houston (work, but hope to see Jen in Austin)
March- Phili (work)
April- Chicago (work)
Don't know what come after that...rest perhaps. I still want to get to New Orleans and Germany pretty soon.

A Quiz: On the radio this morning, they asked, "what is the only word in the English language that has a silent D?" They did not give the answer. Any ideas?

Some Days, I Am Reminded of the Good in the World: As I was driving to work this morning, I saw an old lady (who I have seen before in my neighborhood) with severe osteoporosis and the inability to move more than a few inches at a time, being helped across the street by two teenagers, both who looked liked they were tough, skateboard riding boys. One was tenderly guiding the woman by her arm as the other boy was standing in the street making sure no cars were going to hit them. It was a wonderful, and touching, way to start my day.

I Scream, You Scream, We All...: Today's Globe's Food Section was all about my favorite food, ICE CREAM! There were about 5 articles and several recipes...now that's what I call important news! Interesting that they report that vanilla is 4:1 the most popular flavor, even at places like Christina's (my favorite ice cream place) where there are MANY exotic and fun flavors. Me, I don't discriminate...but do love vanilla...and coffee Oreo....and mint chocolate chip...and........

Mini Kamaji Reunion: I leave for Denver tomorrow, intitially for work, but staying for fun. I will host a young alumni planning meeting for the event I will do out there in October and conduct quite a few site visits of venues (for the young alumni event and other future events there). I have never been to Denver (or most of the "mountain" zone so I am very excited.) On Friday, I am meeting up with a woman I haven't seen since we were 17! Our dads went to the same boys camp in WI as kids, went to law school together, and were in each other's weddings. When I went to the sister camp of the boys camp as a kid, I met Alix, as our dads both wanted us to experience overnight camp in the north woods (our camp was in MN, not WI). Alix and I spent about 5 summers as campers there, and then were counselors for one summer when we were 17. Although I vaguely knew where she lived, that she went to law school, etc through our dad, we hadn't talked in 13 years. When I found out I would be going to Denver, I re-connected with her and I am spending Friday evening and Saturday with her. I am really looking forward to it. To top it off, she is going to try to reach another camp friend who lives in Breckenridge, CO to see if she can meet up with us. AND!!!!! She told me that another friend lives in San Fran, where I will be again in October. I will definitely try to track her down! So much fun.

Something Wrong With the World: My freshman year roommate (the very crazy, weird, not so nice one) has just gotten married to a normal-enough looking man. This is the ultimate "if she can find someone, why can't I?". Blah!

You May Fool Your Lover But...: A study has come out showing that a scan of the brain can tell if a woman is faking an orgasm or not. As I've always said, machines know more than men. (But I still find some uses for them...)

Smokin' Up in the Bay State: Um, so a study was released about where people smoke pot the most, and the least, and in the the top 10 cities, three are in Massachusetts. Interesting...

Taking Losing to a Whole New Level: The standings for my softball league (read: giggling and beer drinking) came out today. My team, Whybunts, (for which I am Assistant Coach....er, Social Chair) is the worst team, in the worst division, in the worst league. Notice that we have a -36 run differential (i.e. we have lost by 36 runs in 2 games)

KF3
Team Win Loss Run Diff
Shadow Masks 2 0 14
Langer Lab 2 0 13
Deliquint Jesters 1 1 22
MIT Press Catfish 1 1 2
Rocket Jocks 0 2 -13
Why Bunts 0 2 -36

Kimpossible9802 Weekend Update: Sorry I have been kind of a stranger as of late. Here is an update of my weekend (which capped off my being out 14 nights in a row!)
Friday: Took the day off as comp time from Reunions the previous weekend (Thursday through Sunday with the Class of 1960 24/7!) I slept in a bit (9ish) and then watched a bit of TV. Then I went to Jamaica Pond to meet up with Lauren and baby Anna. We went on a great walk around the Pond (twice!) which as a few miles and then we drove into JP to grab lunch. I can't remember the name of the little place we stopped in, but we split two yummy sandwiches and a salad, and had the whole place to ourselves. After leaving Lauren and Anna mid-afternoon, I went to the Austin/Calderon house, where I saw Amy, Alejandro, Andres (and Jose at the very end). The twins are too cute to be believed, and 8 months pregnant Amy looks amazing! Although I was hot (its been in the 90s for 4 days) when I got home, I showered and then went swing dancing with Amy (other Amy). I had fun, although as the heat increased in the dance hall, I became increasingly less tolerant of the lecherous old-er men. (They were harmless, I just didn't have the patience for them.)
Saturday: I woke up, read the paper etc, and then picked up Marshall to go to Boston Pride. Over 800,00 people came! It was soooooo hot! I drank 4 bottles of water and didn't even really have to go potty (I know, TMI). We saw Eve, Brenda (a lot of Brenda ech em) and Liz in the parade. Marshall and I hooked up with Jen and Wendy at the festival. Marshall very generously offered to help me install my air conditioner, so we did that, I took him home, and I tried to stay cool.
Sunday: I went to the grocery store (woo woo) and stopped off at Emily and Nat's place with ice cream and lemonade, as they were doing the last minute packing in the 95 degree heat, for moving next weekend. I did some straightening up around my house (not too much cuz it was damn hot) and then went to babysit for the evening. Alas, that brings me to today...

A Hunka Hunka Burning Veggie: Marshall sent me this link to a contest for Sexiest Vegetarian. (I think he is hoping we will all vote for him...but I think I will go with...) Interesting to note that there are far more men listed than women.

I've Never: Eva has “tagged” me to continue her listing of 10 Things I’ve Never Done… (in no particular order)

I’ve never broken a bone.
I’ve never eaten lamb, duck or venison.
I’ve never dyed my hair.
I’ve never failed a class.
I’ve never seen Gone With the Wind.
I’ve never been to the “true” southern states of Mississippi, Louisiana, or Georgia. (But I am going to Atlanta in October.) There are about 10 other states never been to.
I’ve never had a pet. (My family had dogs growing up, but never a pet of my own.)
I’ve never gotten a tattoo or piecing anywhere other than my ears.
I’ve never played a sport for a school team. (excluding the softball team at work…which I would call “playing” anyhow)
I’ve never gone more than a week without talking to my parents.

Em, tag...you're it!

Headline on CNN.com: "Survey: Northeast has dumbest drivers" Couldn't agree more! (Well, I find dumb dirvers everywhere, but I think they are particularly dense in MA. "When faced with a written test, similar to ones given to beginning drivers applying for licenses, one in ten drivers couldn't get a passing score, according to a study commissioned by GMAC Insurance."

NAKED! Em and I went to see Take Me Out last night at the SpeakEasy Stage Company. A very well done, very funny show...and a very naked show with a HOT lead actor. When the theater wrote to us and warned us there would be nudity (yeah nudity) I thought it would be more a few minutes. It was many minutes and quite a sight to see about 10 men standing around, showering, talking, and goofing off NAKED. Not to mention, the lead was one of the sexiest people I've seen in a long time. *It looks like he had a small role in The Interpreter...and his bio said he was on Sex in the City, CSI, and Law and Order. I also found this well-written review, which sums it all up well.

Never Thought I'd Say It But... Props to A-Rod. The Yankee's third baseman has gone on record saying that he is in therapy, it is a great thing, and something for which you should not be ashamed. Big, strong men admitting that therapy, self-reflection and awareness, and looking to others for help, is always news I like to hear from role models. Too bad he plays for the bad team.

Returning to the Theater: Em and I head out to the final play of our subscription to the SpeakEasy Stage Company. We will be seeing "Take Me Out", which "chronicles the unexpected and dramatic turn of events when Darren Lemming, the most charismatic, successful and universally praised player in professional baseball, suddenly decides to come out of the closet." We hope to go to this play in July, which is a one-woman show about South Africa and it is supposed to be wonderful!

Yardley in the News: Some of you may remember my story from LAST year's MIT Reunions (the next one is next week!) about Yardley Chittick, the then-103 year old patent lawyer that comes to every Reunion, and the hilarious and touch story I heard about him (too long to type here). Well, apparently he is the OLDEST living patent lawyer and he was just honored. I love it!

Picture to Come But...: I was waiting until I uploaded the photos of last weekend's Samuel Adam's Brewery tour to discuss, but now there is a timely article in today's Globe about the brewery. See! I learned all of that on the tour...not to mention tried the Chocolate Boch (in addition to the Sam Adams Lager, SA Summer Ale and SA Octoberfest) The festivities were part one of the fabulous 33.3 Celebration for Nat.

I hate this fu*$ing weather! We had a record low high yesterday (as in the normal high is 70 and the high yesterday was 45).

In desperate need of some of this... Please!!!!! (While I'm putting in requests, I'd like some of this and this too.)