i'm waiting for the last story of the evening to come in as i roast in my little corner over here. it's labor day, and it appears the building's air conditioning is still out for the long weekend. i have one of my pearl river fans with me, but i'm still ruing my penchant for jeans on hot days lately. aside from that, i've gone through my usual slew of sports pieces. i'm hoping that, one of these days, i'll absorb enough yankees-talk to surprise my family with a legitimate baseball-based conversation. but it all reads like another language to me.

so it seems the weekend is finally at its end. a damn shame.

this past thursday, michael and i went out for our first date night (which was a suggestion of nicole's after i complained to her that i never saw my husband anymore). we went to cafe eclectic for delicious pie (apple-caramel & oreo mousse), saw 2 days in paris, and had a light dinner at raymond's on church street, which has outdoor seating and, goddammit, i wanted to sit outdoors on such a beautiful evening.

i was all sorts of thrilled to see 2 days in paris, because it was a julie delpy film and i had long ago fallen in love with before sunrise and before sunset and it looked like it could be pretty funny. turns out that the couple delpy & goldberg portrayed was a carbon copy of me & michael, with me as the cat-loving, commitment-phobic, sexually open (intellectually, anyway) neurotic, and michael as the competitive, whiny paranoid. i enjoyed it.

on friday, after frittering my freelance time away at the mall, all for the sake of two headbands and a glittery, purple business card case, michael and i headed into the city to meet up with phil & dawn for an extended happy hour. it was an early start for a happy hour, so we were able to fit in a good amount of drinkage:

whilst drunk off our asses, we got ourselves the fabulous idea to throw a bbq the next day, which mike & i ended up throwing together in about an hour's time, after meeting up with some people for lunch at mr.sushi. a good amount of people actually showed (and one cute leetle doggie) and i got presents! including a sleeping bag! to replace the one keebler destroyed! and there was swimming even! (b/c we had the bbq at michael's parents' house while they were out of town, simply because they have a pool):

i am cranky now that the festivities are over