Hey, DCistas. If you have not been to the Folklife Festival this year, I highly recommend it. I spent a good deal of time in the Wales area today and enjoyed every minute of it.

Got there just in time to catch Only Men Aloud, winners of last year's, Last Choir Standing on the Beeb. They were awesome. One medley exhibited their Welsh pride with 'exports' Dame Shirley Bassey and Tom Jones. The theme from Goldfinger, Delilah, It's Not Unusual, and the Green, Green Grass of home.

On my way back up the Hill, I realized my face hurt from having smiled non-stop for hours. I needed that!

I want to go visit somewhere that doesn't have any weather.

OOOH OOOHHH

My laptop is decorated with crawling ant stickers (I bought a package to decorate the inside of the kitchen cabinets at my old apartment and had some left over). I find it amusing that there is now a real ant crawling on my laptop.

Poor Ply got caught out in the rain last night and must have holed up somewhere, because she was nowhere to be found this morning. Now she's buried herself under the pile of laundry I still haven't put away.

-t, I think your DH just about has it. She's certainly never proven herself on any major stage, but she keeps winning minor ones, and the Williams sisters especially don't play those. I thought that match was laughable, and given that Serena has been vocal before about Dinara not deserving the spot, I know there's at least eyerolling going on at the Williams residence tonight.

Oh yeah. Well, at least, Venus will be well rested for her match against her sister !

If I were Serena I'd make her work extra hard in the doubles match to compensate!

I've been paying more attention this championship to who's sponsored by whom, and I'm surprised at the number of logo only companies. I get it if you're Nike, but some of the others are opaque (Fred Perry) or have logos that were familiar but I just couldn't place--and it's not like I can just google "red distorted infinity sign" and come up with an athletic-wear vendor. And then you come up with a company like Yonex which kits out Dementieva or Hewitt from head to toe, including racket, and I swear I'd never heard of them before.

I guess that's why you advertise.

Jesse, I just saw a PSA for your org on Hulu!

So I went to see Taylor sail in the harbor and met a bunch of her friends. Her dad arrived with her report car and she did really well this year: mostly As and a B in high school algebra. Her grades improved each semester. She ended up with a 90 average. Then she came home with me so her dad could run some errands (and plug the tire that picked up a nail!) We hung out and just talked about stuff. We had a long conversation about Goth due to her spotting Jilli's book on the table and how a friend of hers is a kinda a Goth. Read some of the intro to/with her. I'm gonna be getting her a copy. She thinks it is cool, but says she isn't a Goth (she isn't, but) since she likes pink too much so I whipped out LJ and showed her pictures of Jilli at Disney. Hah! "She's very pretty!"

Loaned her a sleeping bag for her overnight at UMBC. Her dad came to pick her up and asked if I was going to prune the bushes. "Uh, eventually?" (They need doing.) I was informed that he will do it "For all you've done for us. And I want to do more if you need it.) OK!

New bed tomorrow. Blinds next Sat. since I can't take ANY time off next week and the weekend is booked. Sigh. At least they'll be in by the time the parents arrive. Deck, nsm. Permits should be done next week. Annoying city!

Sara, I so want to come visit you and your new place. I love reading about it.

I'd love you to! When is the next Closeup??? I've even got a babygate and msbelle the awesome gave me a twin inflatable so we could pretend Noah'd sleep in his own bed were you guys to visit.

Must go buy queen mattress pad tomorrow once I find out the delivery time. After I clean out that bedroom. Taylor's visit kinda interrupted that plan and I don't wanna now. Oy.