What Gmail Thinks I Should Know More About

• French Kiss
• French Kissing Tips
• First Kiss Tips
• Girls Girls Girls
• Polo Ralph Lauren
• Black Dress Shirts
• Dress Shirts
• Silk Dress

I am at a loss...

Things That Please Me

Farmers' market goodies

How My iPod Tried to Cheer Me Up This Morning

So this morning, in our fair city, was a bit of a disappointment. It is almost July, and I am wearing tights. It is rainy, dreary and terrible out, so my iPod decided that I needed some cheering. Here is what played on my way to work, to the best of my memory:

• Crazy Love, Ray Charles and Van Morrison
• God's Gonna Cut You Down, Johnny Cash
• This Kiss, Faith Hill
• Bang Goes the Drum, Blossom Dearie
• Beer For My Horses, Willie Nelson and Toby Keith (from WN's birthday concert)
  
• Big, Blonde and Beautiful, Soundtrack to Hairspray

Well played, iPod.

New Standards for Evaluating Dates

So I made a crack about giving someone stars on an online dating site feeling like judging figure skating, and was challenged to come up with something better. So far, what I've come up with is flavors -

• Cinnamon – sweet and homey
• Fresh plum – crisp and refreshing
• Banana flavoring (not to be confused with actual bananas) - fake and terrible in every way
• Parsley – nondescript and inoffensive
• Sugar – hard to resist, but ultimately only good for you in small doses
• Roquefort Cheese – comes on strong, but unexplainably appealing
• Cayenne Pepper – Makes your eyes water and palms sweat, but maybe not acceptable for breakfast
• Chocolate with Cayenne Pepper - unexpected and endlessly appealing
• White wine and garlic – goes with everything

(I'd do types of alcohol, but figure that's a bad impression to make on someone who hasn't met me - plus I'd just crib the Sports Night Smoky/slow drink of whiskey line.)

any other ideas for a better way to evaluate people you've never met? parts of speech?James Cameron movies? Mike Seaver versus Alex P. Keaton? flowering plants? muppets? Bill or Ted?

I'll have to answer him sometime, and odds are he's not one of my seven readers, so I'll feel free to crib from y'all mercilessly.

Orange Things From Today's Outing

Crying at Work Means

a. Bad Day
b. PMS
c. Time for a New Job
d. All of the Above

Dispatches from the Louvre

Self Portraits at Beaubourg

Obligatory Eiffel Tower Pictures

Paris is in a New York State of Mind

This was in a store where actual Parisians shop (or at least where my actual Parisian friends went when they needed glassware). I think this is on par with all the pictures of the Eiffel Tower in Bed Bath and Beyond.

Vive La France