nyc reservation imbroglio

hi if you are friends with thomas keller or david chang or even daniel boulud please contact me asap. DANIEL SHOVED ME INTO SOME PRETHEATER 5:45 B&T SEATING. I NEED SOME STRINGS PULLED HERE.

some beeping deal

according to the hospital, our pagers are worth some $500. unclear if this is mentioned by way of warning against losing them, or if this is supposed to be some high-value perk. either way, YOU CAN BUY AN IPHONE FOR LESS THAN $500. and you can probably watch the jersey shore on that. all a pager does is beep.

alanis would have understood

I went to shoppers drug mart this afternoon. bought some swedish berries and some toothpaste. pointed out to the cashier that it was rather ironic, really, to be buying swedish berries and toothpaste. she smiled and asked if I had an optimum card.

james cameron

your movie just made one billion dollars and your hair looks like that?

on pronouns

I was just reading a blog written entirely in the royal we. I am a bit surprised that I have not acquired that affectation over here at EV. I will perhaps have to consider it for future use. we could seriously get used to it, we think.

gastronomics

I do not see what is so great about this recession if I cannot even get a table at per se.

most beautiful thing I have read today

"a trio of tiny arugula leaves, all precisely the same size and each perfectly equidistant from the others"

also speaking of reading: mila, next time you are reading at my desk, kindly leave the tizio in a more aesthetically pleasing position.

aaan unrelated blog post

mila's taxi service of choice would appear to be "aaa taxi".

p.s. that is perhaps the worst cab service in halifax. the aaabsolute worst.

aaa blog post

does anyone actually open the yellow pages and turn to the plumber section and think "I will just use aaa111 plumber ltd. because they are listed first and why would I even bother turning the page to the rest of the plumbers?"

cut

one of the blogs I follow just had a post on champagne which informed me that only wine made in champagne could be called champagne. seriously? I have never heard that before. every article ever written on bubbly has never mentioned that ever, so I was obviously glad to read that fact for the first time in my entire life.

I should hope it goes without saying that I promptly removed that blog from my reading list. shame. it was otherwise one of my favouite blogs. one must have standards, though.

downside to having 1750 christmas lights on the ev tree

putting away 1750 christmas lights

lost in translation

at the dentist this morning for a recheck on my recently filled cavity:

"might go to montauk this afternoon" said the dentist.
"oh, I didn't even know they had a store here!" thought I, eager to browse their selection of fine sofas. but before I could reply, the tooth doctor interjected:
"I'll have to check on the conditions first, though"
odd, no, that he would be so nervous about the conditions at a furniture store? I mean I know it is boxing day and all, but still.

evidently he was referring to martock, a local ski hill, and not the purveyor of responsible couches. why does no one ever speak my language?

p.s. cavity is such a strong word. it was really more of a mini-cavity. a dent, really.

did I really need more festive matzo?

I wonder what the yiddish word is for 'barf'? and also for 'liposuction'.

oy vey

having filled my belly as full as it will go with christmas cookies, I felt a change of faith was in order. and so I just ate way too much matzo crunch. I am, as they say, schtuffed.

in other news, mila will not let me get a lamp shaped like a gun (it is only a few years old and already a design classic, I feel. and it is really sexy and also I can pretend it is conceptual and stuff). her reasons are not clear. something about it being a gun or something (note to mila it is not a real gun it is just a lamp gun). but anyway it is not like I have a history of violence or anything so why am I being punished and not allowed to have a sweet lamp?

disaster

that is it, I cannot go to work so early from now on. I got all dressed in the dark this morning and looked pretty sweet (grey trousers and a subdued lavender sweater with a black shoe and sweet black socks) but then I got to work and my sweet black socks were actually my sweet navy socks.

anyway if anyone had asked I would have told them that navy socks were the new thing and didn't they know that karl lagerfeld had ordered that all his black socks be placed in custom vuiton valises and sunk to the bottom of lake como and if the kaiser is not going to wear black socks then neither am I BUT UNDER THAT COVER STORY I WAS ACTUALLY REALLY EMBARRASSED.

where did they even find a hammer?

to the ladies trying to mount a poster in the library: you cannot push a pushpin into a cinderblock wall. also you cannot hammer it in so please stop trying because I am trying to read the internet here.

p.s. the poster is too high.

whatevs

so someone leaked a trailer for harry potter and the deathly hallows but now it is gone from the internet and I never saw it. whatever, like I even care. big deal. maybe I will reread all the books now because I have a serious craving. so what?

ALSO THE OLYMPICS ARE KIND OF SOON.

I do not want to see our electricity bill for december

the dimmer for our christmas tree lights just melted. evidently standard-issue residential dimmers are not made to handle the demands of an EV christmas tree.

married life is stifling

so there is this poster I want to get with different cuts of pork on it and stuff but mila will not let me get it. I mean I understand that maybe pork peaked in fall/winter 2009, but it is still the hottest meat right now, until goat usurps it sometime in mid 2010.

our home is full of christmas cheer

and pine needles.