Gah, my creative brain has

Gah, my creative brain has been turned off. There is no juice left. I don’t know where to buy brain juice. Maybe at Kalustyans, which is where I’m headed after work to hunt down Spanish paprika for my aunt. Apparently it is differs from regular paprika in that it has a smoky taste to it, but I honestly only ever use paprika for deviled eggs, so I’m not sure I’m as excited about this purchase as she seems to be. J and I are headed upstate tomorrow for more family birthdays, and this time I’ve been entrusted with the making of a white cake. I volunteered to do this, but now am worried my white cake will suck. I don’t actually have a recipe for a white cake; I am just using the first thing I found on the internet that looked good.

Remember how excited I was about "Hooking Up"? Well, I think it’s over. Mostly because all of a sudden during the last ten minutes of the show, the words “One Year Later” popped up on screen and then out of nowhere we’re doing recaps and checking in on people and everyone’s smiling and then there's credits and that's it. Looking back, this was a strange concept for a show. Why did they have eleven women for 4 episodes? Why did they film the women for only a few dates, then come back to check on them a year later after they’d already found someone? Why were some women only included for about 10 minutes total? Why did this random woman who we met for just this last episode get to be part of the giant “I found love” finale piece? Why didn’t we meet her earlier? It’s almost like the producers got told the show was cancelled in the middle of airing the episode and real quick edited an ending and pasted it on. WTF?

Other people with more brain juice have exciting news:

Krista’s is Top Secret, but you should cross all your fingers and toes that this good thing actually happens, because while I can’t disclose what it is, it is really REALLY frickin’ cool. Really.

My friend Sam stuck her big toe into this cold cyberpool and decided the temperature was just right for swimming.

Kelly just got back from Africa! She has lots of crazy stories and pics.

Sally will have something on the McSweeney’s site!

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