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January 27, 2004
January 27
As you can probably guess from my last post, I'm not a big fan of snow, but I have to say, tonight's snow was the nicest snow I've ever walked through. It was so soft it made the long trek home from the subway enjoyable. If heaven consisted of the snow we had tonight minus the coldness I don't think I'd be unhappy about it.
Onto the links--Christo's latest project. Pretty cool in my opinion.
A book I'd be interested in checking out. I'd read her first book and I found it to be one of the most boring evolutionary psychology books I'd ever read but the first few Q&A's of this interview are pretty interesting:
And women? (regarding what portions of the female brain are stimulated by love)
Several regions associated with memory recall became active. And I couldn't figure out why at first, and then I thought to myself, my goodness -- for millions of years women have been looking for someone to help them raise their babies, and in order to do that you really can't look at someone and know whether they're honest or trustworthy or whether they can hit the buffalo in the head and share the meat with you. You've got to remember what they said yesterday, what they said three weeks ago, what they gave your mother two months ago at the midwinter festival. For millions of years women have had the hardest job on earth -- raising tiny helpless babies for as long as 20 years. That is an enormous job. There's no other animal on earth for whom motherhood is so complex. And if their husband died they'd have to expend an enormous amount of metabolic energy to find another one, and they're that much older, and the clock is ticking -- it's an adaptive strategy to remember all these details.
Posted by Jennifer at 07:38 PM
January 22, 2004
January 22
I know, I haven't updated in a while but it's been a busy week. At any rate, Happy New Year's! I don't even celebrate Chinese New Year's, to tell you the truth, and in fact didn't even realize it was the New Year until my fiance reminded me yesterday. I don't know what it is with this year, unless the monkey is an especially high profile year, but everyone's been wishing me happy new year's even though it's a holiday I've never celebrated. Anyway, last Chinese New Year's my fiance actually proposed to me. It was completely coincidental though.
So this week has been a good week in a number of ways but also a crappy in a few ways, namely, the fact that the stretch of sidewalk that I have to walk down to get back and forth from the subway has been an almost continuous ice slick because most of the people in my neighborhood don't bother shovelling or de-icing in the winter which is one of my biggest aggravations. Last year, I called the Department of Sanitation but they responded that they would need the address of every perpetrator, that the investigators generally aren't sent out until a couple of days after you file the complaint (by which time the snow generally melts), and that they only issue a warning the first time they are found guilty of not clearing their sidewalks so I gave up. But this year I read DOS was conducting sweeps and issuing tickets so I asked that they do a sweep of said stretch. I hoped they did it yesterday when I placed the call and had to gingerly walk across the quarter-mile stretch in the mornings and evenings for five days rather than today when a lot of the ice melted.
Posted by Jennifer at 07:34 PM
January 14, 2004
January 14
I just remembered that I happened to be watching a commercial for a Larry King or other special on CNN in which people who knew James Dean would be interviewed, one of the people being his only living former girlfriend--imagine my surprise when I saw that it was the actress who played Jerry's mom on Seinfeld!
Onto the links:
Speaking of Seinfeld, there's an interesting article on Larry David in the current issue of the New Yorker--Larry David is another bald (or at least balding) person I really like--I'm definitely a regular watcher of Curb Your Enthusiasm although the new season has been a little disappointing so far but, more importantly, I like his character on the show which I imagine isn't much different from the man himself. Adam's funny--he watches the show with me but says it makes him nervous.
Another weblogger's funny account of yesterday's bridal show.
Posted by Jennifer at 07:32 PM
January 13, 2004
January 13
So Adam and I went to a bridal show today and only because I heard the chain he was planning on renting his tux through was going to be there and that you can get good deals when you book through these shows. There was no other reason for us to be there--we've already done most of our wedding stuff so we ended up going through it pretty quickly--Adam just downed all the free sweets they had and I got copies of all the free mags. There were a lot of people there though--now I'm a daily user of bridal message boards but you never realize how many people are getting married until you go to one of these wedding-related affairs. This is only the second event I've been to (the first being a Vera Wang sample sale--definitely not an experience worth repeating) but it's crazy how many people will show to these things, at least here in New York. I mean, are there really that many people getting married out there?
Posted by Jennifer at 07:26 PM | Comments (0)
January 10, 2004
January 10
When I first saw this teaser I thought it was the result of either a mistake, joke, or a really sexist reporter:
Chick Defends Tough Audit of Agency
L.A. controller refuses comment on specific challenges to a report on airports. She plans to send findings to council.
Then I read the article.
Posted by Jennifer at 07:16 PM
January 08, 2004
January 8
I happened to be watching CNN when I first heard the ringer about a leak pertaining to the Martha Stewart trial which had taken place which piqued my interest. Then the segment came on and they revealed that Gawker had printed some of the questions from the jury selection questionnaire and they were investigating who spilled the beans to the weblog. I hadn't thought twice when I saw those questions printed on Gawker but when I saw that it had made it to CNN I have to say that that's pretty huge. On a non web-related note, I found a make-up artist for my wedding! I've had two and a half hair and make-up trials already (the half being a pseudo hair trial with my hair stylist) and wasn't happy with any of them and had an appointment with another person this weekend who asked that I bring my own lipstick. One thing you need to know about me is I'm extremely picky--selecting just about anything can take me a while and picking the lipstick I wanted to use for my wedding wasn't going to be an exception. The thing is I had a shade in mind (a berry kind of color) but I couldn't find it anywhere, I think partly because the spring cosmetic lines may not be out yet. I had looked in Sephora, nearly every major department store, and other places and since my trial was this week I decided to go to Henri Bendel's, since I had a hunch they would probably carry cosmetic lines that other places didn't have. I walked into the store and was glancing at some lipsticks at the Diane Von Furstenburg display when this guy waltzed over and chimed "How are you doing, Boo?" I was a little taken aback but mumbled that I was just looking for a lipstick and before I could protest, he started applying this thing and that, and then sitting me down to have my eyebrows plucked, and then making up my whole face. I actually liked the job that he did though and I was also scared that he'd expect me to buy all this stuff when I had just gone there to look at lipsticks so I asked him if he did weddings. He said yes and his fee was surprisingly within my range so I decided to use him. I've never gotten my eyebrows plucked before and was actually going to wait until just before the wedding to do it but what's wrong with a free plucking? (I did feel a little guilty though that I didn't buy the eyebrow kit he was pushing)Posted by Jennifer at 07:07 PM
January 05, 2004
January 5
Guess who Adam and I scored an interview with? David Cross! I saw that he'll be performing at Tonic next week and wanted to get advance tickets but then we found out that they only sell tickets a half hour before the show which is a virtual guarantee that you won't get tickets unless you're willing to wait on line in the freezing cold for forty minutes or more.
So I asked my fiance if maybe he could try to get an interview with David Cross and that way we would not only get to meet him but we'd also get on the guest list for the show. Adam managed to get in touch with his publicist who said he'll send over David Cross's dvd so we may not get on the guest list but at least we'll get to interview him! I'm a little nervous though because I know virtually nothing about him other than the glimpses of his performances I've caught over the years. There's always the internet at least. Other people we've interviewed:
Sherman Alexie (among many other things, director and author of the book that was adapted into Smoke Signals)
Rich Collier (host of Subway Q&A)
The Bouncing Souls
Posted by Jennifer at 07:02 PM