Lilly, on the subject of children, before she started learning how to drive: “So cute!”

Lilly, on the subject of children, while taking driving lessons: “they are darting, dashing, short and completely oblivious fractions of people.”

In the spirit of throwing more Futurama references in for my adoring readers:
"Valentine's Day is coming? Crap...I forgot to get a girlfriend again."

"I'm a hockey mom...soon to be an illegitimate hockey grandmom." -Lisa Ann, portrayer of "Sarah Paylin" in the new hit porno movie "Who's Nailin' Paylin."

The journalist/blogger in me is urging me to provide some links and more information...but I think I'd rather not.

That said, from what I gather, in filming this movie, Ms. Ann accumulated more experience than the real Vice Presidential nominee in foreign relations (wait for it...).

Finally, I think it's great that she not only studied the real Sarah Palin in preparing for her role, but also Tina Fey to learn how to excellently impersonate Mrs. Palin.

Co-Worker: "I didn't know you had a girlfriend!"
Me: "And my girlfriend doesn't know I have a job. I like to keep my personal and professional lives separate."

My Business Trip to NY

Yesterday I had to travel with some others to New York City.

First let me explain something: I'm not really supposed to blog about my job, as I now work in public finance. Many of you may wonder or have wondered why I've failed to even mention, much less talk about, my new job. Well, it's a cool job in which I get to help with the building of bridges and schools and hospitals and saving cities in distress. That said, given the nature of the business, should anything we work on become a matter of public interest or investigation, everything I say in any venue about it can be subpoenaed. Plus even without a subpoena I might get in trouble. Basically, I'm happy to talk about a lot of it with people (especially since I'm still in training)--so feel free to bring it up when chatting--but we've all been strongly advised not to scatter lots of written records and opinions all over the world. Also, in many cases we'll have a "no comment" on-the-record policy with the press unless specifically asked to explain something by a client (and we can't say "no comment" while posting online comments)...and I know at least one journalist who reads this blog fairly regularly. Sorry, Lizmonster.

So back to my story, a bunch of us had to go to New York, and the line of the day came from someone who had lived in NY for a while an loved it. For some reason I'm thinking of "Princeton" from Avenue Q as a good way to describe him, so we'll go with that pseudonym.

Princeton: "Why does it smell like urine?"
Me: "Because we're in a train station and we're in New York."
Princeton: "Oh. Right."

Also the weather sucked. True story.

And for those of you who lived with me in college, I ran into a certain panda bear near ground zero. 4 million people on the island and I actually ran into someone I knew. The mathematics behind the probability of that happening are more interesting than anything else that happened on the trip.