Talk about being out of it. I woke up this morning after hitting snooze for awhile and then realized I was going to be late. I jumped in the shower, threw on clothes and raced downstairs to make me lunch. When I got downstairs I realized it was actually 7:34 not 8:34 and that I had, for once, actually gotten up soon after my alarm goes off for the first time. Oh well! I got to read the paper early and actually make coffee! yeah for me!

in other news, my dinner for the family on tuesday night was amazing. for those of you were unaware, i lost a bet with my brother-in-law by rooting for toronto in the toronto/carolina series and so his reward was a 5-course meal. we started with a bottle of beringer red zinfandel and a napa valley white called "obsession". then we had butternut squash-apple-brie soup as a first course, then a grapefruit and red lettuce salad with honey-pepper vinaigrette, fresh bread, cedar-plank salmon steaks with asparagus in a tarragon-lemon cream sauce served with wild rice and then a vanilla panna cotta with fresh fruit and candied oranges for dessert. It was sooo good.

linda and bob, my second parents are in town and we're hanging out a lot. tonight i'm going to the plug-in gallery to see archigram with linda and then saturday we're heading to the folk festival. yeah!

ciao for now...