January 19th, 2008
Cocktail Contemplations
I’m off to a cocktail - dinner event this evening. Contemplating how to handle an evening spent eating and drinking with adults, all with an interest in art but otherwise varied in their politics, academic, or professional fields of interest, it suddenly occurred to me that I was an adult myself. By virtue of the adult label I should theoretically be able to breeze through the evening without a hitch. The adult skin fits sometimes, tonight it is what I will wear, but as you often see here there is still a corner of the woman still branded as girl, either by herself or by others.
Yet, a girl no longer, I’ll venture out to an evening spent with varied group of philanthropists, the majority, though not all, possessing a soft spot in their heart for William Bennett. The host of this event once gave me a signed copy of one of Bennett’s books. I didn’t refuse it, though if I had some balls I might have.
The guest list is varied though, and is likely to contain at least one or two liberals and a couple of progressives. Politics will be discussed, if only in passing, as the rather dubious cawk-us is taking place in Nevada, but the purpose of the night is to raise funds for a specific program, and to give thanks to those who have made past community programs possible.
I hope to be home, black suit on the floor, by the time the 11 O’clock news hits. This may be wishful thinking, because I desire some free quiet time, but I factored the average age of those attending this event into my prognostication .
I’m the meantime ponder this:
Why are my spammers so smart that they now use the names of those who comment here?
I have spam by the bucket loads from people named “Jason”, and as Jason is the name of many who comment here routinely I find it rather sly of those spammers. I also get spam routinely under the name of just plain J. Having more J commenter’s than anything I think there is a delightfully sly spam robot out there somewhere doing its research.
Check out this weeks Famer, I think you’ll approve.
Peace all.
