katefate! YAY!!!

What does "called me off the cookie" mean?

Huh. Want cookie now.

Yay!

And I'm off to the airport. See y'all soon!

Tom insent (well, insending) as text file. Did it work right?

Got it. Thanks, Jen!

Oh my. It looks like a big mess when I pull it up. Is it really OK? I can also just slap the info. into an e-mail, if that'll be better.

Cereal:

Forwarded, katefate. (The Excel verion, that is).

I can bring an extra cable or so--they're ethernet cables, right?

HI, I'm in the office of the catering mgr., having just signed for order for food, set up, hosp. suite, and bartender & cashier. She's letting me use her computer while she goes to lunch. And so, I cannot ask her about the mike stand. but I will when she gets back.

It cooled down today so that I don't feel exactly like I'm at the Honolulu Airport. However, I'm still wearing a Hawaiian shirt. But it was cool enough to change out of sandals and into running shoes.

I walked down to the lake (I"m camping for now) this AM for the first time and you can see all the holes around the base of the trees where the cicadas crawled out. Then I looked at the base of the same trees - 3 inches deep of cicada carcasses. Yikes! One delayed bloomer was still a larvae (pupae?) crawling up the tree in his/her space monster yellow armor. A couple of cicadas crawled up the outside of my tent but they shake off easily. Fortunately. I know my tent and it is tight when zipped - or I would have been creeped out by the idea of them finding a way in all night long.

The museums are so fabulous, and I haven't even been to all the ones I want to go to yet. How on earth did I miss Roses by Van Gogh before? The green roses. Whoa! Also, Odalequese (sp?) that is practically 3-D.

There are Imax movies that I want to see about Everest, The Young Black Stallion, Jane GOodall and something else, shown in a run 6-9 PM, FYI. The Kennedy Center has free performances at 6 PM every evening. I went to an opera one.

Oh, and no email from Vortex with the list. There will be printouts available tomorrow, yes?

Driving in DC is insane. It's SO bad. Roads are not marked. They have one name on one side of the street and another name on the sign on the other side fo the street, 35 feet away. Someone at a police station gave me WRONG directions! It's made me very happy to just drive to the Vienna Metro STation and take Metro everywhere. I'm a more than a little scared about driving to Ann's tonight and then FINDING MY WAY BACK. Having sounded the knell of driving doom, I hope someone(s) is riding with me to Ann's tonight because otherwise I will tear my hair out! Navigator needed.

After driving up there for Thanksgiving, I can safely say that I lived through it. But I really didn't like it. Bad city for driving, when you don't live there.