My alarm clock was broken this morning. By which I mean for some reason kripkat did not jump on my chest and meow in my face at 7 in the morning. We are still trying to figure out this mystery!

What are people doing this weekend?

Tonight hanging out with the mister and making a fave fall/winter dish--roasted chicken thighs w/ yukon gold potatoes and carrots. Except w/ sweet taters instead of carrots possibly. And working out some wedding business.

Saturday, Bob flies to Chicago for his bach party evening (and then work through next week) and I go for a walk w/ a friend and yardsale shop for glassware for centerpieces. Sat. eve spraypaint glassware and have dinner with friends who are helping me.

Sunday go to Wilmington for family-thrown bridal shower. Hilarious! Should be fun though.

What are people doing this weekend?

Going to see Gary Numan tonight (the Pleasure Principle tour!), with Rasputina opening.

Chilling the rest in anticipation of my trip next weekend. Maybe see The Social Network and/or The Town.

Weekend- hm, I don't know. Definitely need to do some cleaning and bug spraying the front door.

Other that that, chilling out, cooking, doing fun stuff.

Kermit waves

Hi Nora!

Tonight Happy Hour and maybe a bit of Blue Goose [link] . Tomorrow Taste of Greenville [link] while Jon cooks for a friend's party and probably more Blue Goose for football. Then a birthday party for a friend of ours at The Windmill [link] Sunday cleaning and Saints!

bon! I met a dog named Barksdale this morning.

Rick, I read that post and had no idea it was you! How would *you* summarise your study?

It's mostly pretty technical and boring, using a mathematical model to decompose the part of social memory that is influenced by variation what is to be remembered (women in this case) and the part that is influenced by the characteristics of the person doing the remembering (men, in this case). There is some Jezebel-worthy stuff in the study. For instance, one hypothesis would be that if a woman is very attractive or is dressed in a sexually provocative way, men will be distracted by that and will be less likely to encode (and therefore remember) her emotional response. The alternative hypothesis is that if a woman is very attractive or dressed in a sexually provocative way men will pay more attention to everything about her, including her emotions, so they will be more likely to encode (and therefore remember) her emotional response. Based on our previous research, we expected the former, but we got the latter. But no one at Jezebel actually read the paper, so their description makes it seem like it was about accuracy of perception.

The Brooklyn library has Flirter avec l'amour : roman / Amy _______ ; traduit de l'américain par Agathe Nabet.

Aw! I love my foreign editions. Not that I can read them.

This weekend I'm taking Sara and my mom to the local ballet company's production of Dracula, which should be awesome. And we're going to the orchard on Sunday for apple picking and a hay ride.

Going shopping after work today for clothes to wear on business trip in a couple of weeks. Saturday, Pilates, yardwork then to dinner and a movie for a friend's birthday ("Hereafter"--Matt Damon is her movie boyfriend, so it's her choice). Sunday, more organization.