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Friday,
March 1, 2002
It's supposed
to snow in Dallas this weekend -- do I HAVE to go back?
Of course, it's
overcast and moderately chilly here, too, so I suppose there's not
that much of a trade-off. Besides, at least I'd have a car in Dallas.
God, I hope Texans approves my credit card application -- I promise
I'll be a good girl and only use it to pay my TollTag and website
monthly charges, as long as I can also use it to rent a fukaktah
car when I'm on a business trip.
I suppose I
shouldn't complain, though -- the office is only a fifteen minute
walk from my hotel (and it's a pleasant fifteen minutes at that),
the guys in the office took me out to lunch at a local mall where
I had a moderately good pad thai and listened to them debate their
favorite extreme sports, and if I did have a car I'd just go out
to a mall and spend money, which is something I really should avoid
if I want to make my savings account bloom and grow.
After work,
Janis was kind enough
to come pick me up again and take me out for dinner at Aesop's Tables,
this faboo little Greek place down the street from her apartment
complex, where we proceeded to stuff ourselves on taramsalata, hummous,
tabouleh and pita slices. And that was before we actually had dinner.
I need to start lifting weights again the moment I touch down in
Dallas -- I can feel my ass expanding by the millisecond.
Afterwards,
we hit an Albertson's and picked up a bottle of DeKuyper's Watermelon
Pucker schnapps and a six-pack of ginger ale as a mixer. Talk about
flashbacks to college (although in those days my drink of choice
was apricot brandy -- gah). We then settled into my last night in
my delightful suite, poured ourself some drinks and Janis proceeded
to teach me how to spin
silk on a drop spindle.
No, seriously,
she did. Janis is a fiber arts goddess (proof of that is here),
and one of her most recent skillsets is spinning her own yarn, which
is pretty damn cool if you think about it. Now I have something
else to add to the ever-increasing list of Things I Want To Learn
In My Copious Free Time.
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