The I'm With Cupid cd release party was fun last night, despite my run-in with a plunger-wielding freak in the bathroom. Now, bathrooms at clubs like Arlene's are always nasty, and you just use them. That's how it is. Last night was no different - I was confronted with gross-o toilet all stopped up and I just used it. So when I exit the stall some woman is standing there with a plunger and says to me "Why did you just use that?" I really didn't see the point in even starting that conversation, and luckily she was also talking to someone else, so I just ignored the comment, put on some more lip gloss and left the bathroom. I was half expecting her to come attack me with plunger later on.


I stole my first cab from someone last night: a woman had been waiting before us but I saw one coming from aross the street, so I dashed across just as the blinking red hand was stopping blinking and hailed it. I was pretty proud of myself. A mean, New Yorker thing to do, but whatever - I was freezing and was not feeling polite!

Reading:

Marketing Management 11E by Kotler. Help. I'm actually enjoying reading it, to tell you the truth.

Classic New Hampshire by Linda Landry. Her writing style is pretty bland, but it still reads ok. I mainly bought it for the chapter on Story Land.

Finished:

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. Haunting and beautiful. Recommended.

Tim Russert's interview with Bush today on "Meet the Press" was really good. Russert asked some really good questions; no lobbing of softballs, as they say. At one point Russert asked Bush if the war in Iraq was one of choice or necessity:"In light of not finding the weapons of mass destruction, do you believe the war in Iraq is a war of choice or a war of necessity?" Could it be any more straightforward a question? Bush, clearly uncomfortable, asks him to elaborate: "I think that's an interesting question. Please elaborate on that a little bit."Elaborate? What part of "choice" or "necessity" didn't he understand? Then he answers the question in the same breath: "A war of choice or a war of necessity? It's a war of necessity. We-- in my judgment, we had no choice when we look at the intelligence I looked at that says the man was a threat. And you know, we will find out about the weapons of mass destruction that we all thought were there. That's part of the Iraqi survey group and the group I put together to look at."