I just had the craziest catered lunch. I feel so bad for askye, as I am so full and she is starving. January is a fun time for event planners here - I remember when I started at this time last year it was the same way... all the different caterers and hotels have recovered from the holidays and are ready to try to woo for business for the upcoming year. Also, this is usually when catering plans are made (or solidified) for summer events.

To sum up: much free food and being schmoozed.

Now I have a lot to do and all I want to do is nap.

Susan, your plan seems to be a solid one.

Also, this evening I'm calling about the place I want to rent. I was going to wait until tomorrow (because the people were out of town all week) but I can't. I shouldn't have been thinking about this place, but I couldn't help that either. When I was out at Wal Mart and Marshall's yesterday I kept day dreaming about what I could buy and where I could put it and all the pretties I'll have a place for soon.

Most importantly a place for books and I won't feel like I have to cull them out and get rid of them. Also thanks to ebay and half.com I don't feel the need to cull books to trade at the used book store. I look at all your posts about the number of bookshelves and how many books y'all have and I could have that much...if my books didn't have to live half in closet at Mom's.

The poor caterers, they had to start defending their leftovers from the mob. But cheesecake and strawberries (sliced and whole) plus fresh fruit garnishes and sandwich meat, quiche, and other assorted goodies

Heh, I don't feel bad for askye anymore! talk about an X-post.

We always have to guard food from wandering students. It's not so much fun.

At our xmas thing there were TONS of leftovers, whole trays of potatoes and green bean casserole and someone managed to take a whole ham home.

You say that like it's a bad thing...

Oh I so don't. How can we be in a thread called "Spike's Bitches" and have a problem with naughty?

The Michael Jackson photo on the cover page of cnn.com is just weird. You can tell that the entire tip of his nose is prosthetic.

Tyco Brahe had a silver nose. Jackson should look into that.

Tyco Brahe could get away with it. As it is, MJ should just head to the nearest leper colony. He's stand out a little less.

the nearest leper colony.

We need moral leper colonies.

Tyco Brahe could get away with it. As it is, MJ should just head to the nearest leper colony. He's stand out a little less.

I feel obliged to note that we're damn lucky to have such a total freakass celebrity as Michael Jackson who is still in the prime of his freakitude. He makes late Elvis and Howard Hughes look stable and sane. I mean, all they did (respectively) was get fat and let their hair and nails grow. MJ's setting a new standard for rich freakery, a mark untouched since the most decadent parts of the Roman empire.