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DiningThe best number for a dinner party is two -- myself and a dam' good head waiter. |
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Monday, April 6, 1998
Journaler Mark Bridgeman is starting up The Journal Collection again. This is a page where journalers can list their favorite entry from their own journals for a particular month. Now, in previous months I haven't had a problem picking an entry, but last month gave me some trouble! So I asked a few friends that I know read me consistently, and the votes are in: Klown Abduction is it! But Kate's favorite for best quotation was the entry for March 30th.
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My manager sent me mail this morning, asking me to hide or remove a certain document from our team's website, since ideas on the topic had changed since it was written and she didn't want anyone else to read it and be misled. So I went to the only document by that name that I had heard of, and renamed it (thank heaven!) and removed the links from all the places it was linked to.
Then it was time for our weekly program management meeting. Various topics were discussed. I told my manager as we were walking away from the meeting, that I had taken care of the task. It became clear in our discussion that she had had an entirely different document in mind, that wasn't part of our team area at all! Luckily, I was able to restore the doc I had hidden, and go after the other one. So only a crisis-ette, after all!
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I went to X---'s place for dinner tonight, whom I had lunch with last Wednesday. He has a very nice apartment on a hill overlooking downtown Redmond. He cooked me a good meal of Italian sausage, rice pilaf, and broccoli, and listened as I explicated my theories on the parallels between fandom and online journals. I was impressed by the life changes he has made to be involved in his child's life! He has a musical background, but I forgot to ask him what his favorite opera is.
I was very amused: when I asked him if he had dated fat women before, he said he didn't think I was fat! I don't know if he thought that applying that term to me would get him in trouble, or if he has very different standards than society does. While I'm not supersized, I am fat! And I don't think that's a bad word to use.
Oh, and the item I bought yesterday at City People's Mercantile was a glass votive candleholder that looked like tortoiseshell, with a beeswax candle to go in it, for a host gift. I figured that it could go with any apartment.
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