Today I sat at work

Today I sat at work in fleece sweatpants and a wet shirt. This is mostly because the alternative to this outfit was a pair of khaki work pants onto which I spilled a whole cup of hot chocolate.* MONDAYS ARE AWESOME! Being at work wearing what are, for all intents and purposes, pajamas, is a strange feeling. It is not unlike the dreams you have where you are supposed to give a speech but don’t have anything prepared. It is also not unlike the time in high school where I, and other freshman members of the drama club, were hazed by being woken up at 4:00 a.m. and made to go to school in ridiculous costumes. I think the feeling I’m thinking of is “embarrassment.”

Jennie came in on Friday night and we had an old roommates get together with Kelly and Tom (and J as a supporter of us being old roommates). We went to a new restaurant in Park Slope, Futura, which has an unfortunate location directly next to a McDonalds. It is SO next to the McDonald’s that it is almost impossible to see until you are right up on it. The place itself was very cute, and because it is new, it had the likeable air of “trying especially hard to make a good impression.” I’m not sure if we demonstrated their ideal customer base (young people from the neighborhood who order lots of food and alcohol) or whether it was the combined blond knockouts of Kelly and Jennie, but we got a practically endless supply of bread with a yummy feta/tomato dip, a complimentary bottle of wine, and two free rounds of anise during dessert. Hello! J reported back that their bathrooms were completely bathed in yellow light. By that time I’d already had a couple glasses of wine, so my scheme to get Chris Martin into the restaurant and into the bathrooms, solely for the moment when he would emerge and you could say, “Hey, what was the bathroom like?” seemed really funny to me. That's probably why I'm not friends with more famous people.

Saturday night a lovely party at Abby and Zack’s. They went all autumn on us and built a fire pit and made some hot cider and rum. Abby made a slew of crazy, delicious appetizers including individual nachos on quarter-sized chips, edamame dip, and vegetarian pigs in a blanket. It was all very cozy and nice and made me glad for it to be fall.

*I had taken the lid off the cup of hot chocolate because the lids have been fitting weird lately and I was afraid I'd dribble onto my clothes.

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