Hurry and date me already!

Big exciting plans for tonight, and for the weekend. Tonight, Helen and I are participating in a HurryDate event, and I really should be coming up with some scintillating conversational gambits or probing questions for the 20-odd 3-minute dates I've therefore got scheduled for the evening. Hopefully a few of them will be good ones. Anyone got any ideas for questions, beyond "What's your favorite book/movie?" "What's your ideal vacation spot?" and my current favorite, "Who would win in a fight between a caveman and an astronaut?"?

Then, this weekend, I'm meeting Yi Shun at her house in the wild northern reaches of New York (practically Canada) and driving with her to Connecticut, where her friend Jamie is giving us a seminar on competitive swimming in prep for the Danskin triathlon we're doing on August 1st. But that's not even the best part! Saturday night, we're heading even farther north, to the Mohegan Sun Casino to see my boys, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy! Yay! Go Daddy-o!

As you can see from the plethora of exclamation marks, I'm excited. I also have to pick up the skirt I was having altered (cut down from my multi-use wedding guest dress, actually) and hope it looks ok to wear. I wasn't entirely thrilled with it when I saw it last week -- I didn't like the way they did a fat boring elastic waistband, especially as we'd never discussed it, and I wouldn't have gone that way at all, given a choice. But maybe I can pick it up, wear it, and bring it back for them to fix, without their charging me any more money. Yeah, like that's likely. But we'll see.

And now I should get back to work. Ciao!