Skipping and poking head to post that, according to the Buffista Calendar,today is a double Buffista birthday: Burrell's and Calli's.

Happy birthdays! With lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year!

Can't talk about PR until this evening! Boy I wish I was at home watching that instead of here!

Happy birthday Calli and Burrell!

Have I mentioned that sushi is ridiculously expensive here? There are exactly two places you can get (non marks and spencer) sushi in this city, and both a ridiculously, hugely overprice. Por ejemplo: €4 for 1 piece of red tuna. One piece! Four euro! A small plate of sushi that would cost me about $8 in Kentucky, of all places, is €20 here. So sushi, she is not for me right now. Sigh. I can't wait to get to London where the sushi is plentiful and cheap.

Just think, you're an Irish sushi-pioneer. After a couple of months of you paying high prices, they'll be opening up more sushi shops and driving down the price!

...well, it could happen.

In other news, I am awake and it's still dark, which is both annoying and disorientating.

I'm awake and it's still dark too. I think they call this fall here. Sigh. It was wet, too, and I keep getting to the bus stop right when there's a freaky thirty-minute lull between buses. And the bus that always does arrive is the one that takes somewhere between twenty and thirty minutes to get to the hospital, way longer than the other five fifteen minute buses that never show up. Today, one bus showed up, disgorged some people, and only let like two on before shutting the door. The poor lot of us were standing in the cold, wet rain befuddled until we realized there was a second bus just a couple minutes behind. Thus my feet have been wet all morning.

I had a middle school teacher who loved to talk about nuclear war and the effects of such on the skin of people.

Same here. We actually had a school-wide assembly about the whole subject, with films shown and so on. I freaked big time, and had nightmares for years afterwards. I think the teacher who organized the thing got some sort of reprimand, actually, since the parents of the kids were unaware of just how horriffic the A/V portion of the assembly was.

Sumi, I'm pretty much with you on all of that. And despite the unpleasantness, I thnk Laura might have won it for Jeffrey by forcing him to lose the OMGWTFLeatherBubbleShorts. I also think that if Uli had been a little more attentive to color transitions from one outfit to the next (in the latter half anyway, the early pieces she did it beautifully) she'd have made it a tougher decision.

The two pieces of Jeffrey's that the judges called out as not working - that was interesting. It looked to me like he was trying to do an Uli piece and a Laura piece - I need to look at the collection again and see if there's something in there that might have been a Michael. If so, interesting strategy, to sort to take them on directly.

Overall, pretty satisfying.

::chafes at the PR talk because it is waiting for me at HOME::

Errr. . .I think might have the aforementioned internet addiction as I am posting/reading posts when in fact I should be taking an exam so that I can make it into work ontime. Instead, I'm trying to remember if I ever had a teacher/professor who ever discussed nuclear fallout, and I'm blank. Though, living in the South, I've heard my fair share of "You're going to burn in the fiery pits of hell!" Does that count?

Okay. Seriously. Gotta take this test.

Happy birthdays, Burrell and Calli!!

PR: Even though I didn't look at the collections beforehand, I saw enough commentary that I figured Jeffrey had won, but I wasn't that psyched with his collection. I didn't think the zippery dress looked that good from afar, even though it was cool close up. Eh. I do think Tim Gunn was right when he said they're all winners -- I think the show will give them all a bump in their careers, especially Laura. She can definitely have a career making clothes now. The others are all already doing it for a living, no? It's kind of annoying, because I don't get the impression that Jeffrey needs much help, career-wise.

Happy Birthday Burrell!
Happy Birthday Calli!

I just went to upload the pictures I took yesterday at the Bronx Zoo with Lee, but Flickr is broken this morning. Damn.