A terribly normal weekend

So, much to my mothers' amusement, on Saturday, I went to a Pampered Chef party. Now, let me explain - I didn't really have much choice about going. The woman I am living with invited me, and she knows full well that I didn't have any plans for the weekend. AND she also knows that I have next to nothing for my kitchen. It would have been a hard one to say, "Thanks for inviting me, but those things are silly, but you go ahead and have fun." So I went. There was food there anyway. (For those of you who do not know what a Pampered Chef part is, its like a Tupperware Party, but instead of plastic bowls, they try to sell you high priced kitchen items).

Anyway, it turned out to be very fun. All the women there either worked for NASA or met each other through a Star Trek club they all belonged too. I guess having this party was like the last vestige of girliness left to these people :). They weren't very comparable to the normal housewife set on Savage Dr. (where I used to live) that had weekly tupperware parties. But I'm glad that my going amused my mom.

Then, on Sunday, I got my cellphone re-connected (yeah!) so you can call me again. Then, I spent the whole afternoon doing one of my favorite things - sitting at the Borders' coffee shop, reading the New York Times. It was very pleasant.

And in the mail room

I was also very excited to get a letter from Karen. This is a rare but special event when she puts pen to paper and writes me a letter. In other mail, I got my TX drivers' license, my car title, several bills...

Oh, and the PS newsletter. The newsletter I found even more amusing. It could really be titled "the Karen newsletter." There were 4 articles. Karen's picture appeared in two of them (one in the backgroun of Jen on the Vomit Comet and one in the center of a picture about Sara Cames' internship with the Supreme Court). Her name appeared in the article about Jen winning a new scholarship. And in the article about Andy Ozmet winning the Marshall Scholarship, Karen got 2 of the 6 paragraphs. That makes Karen's precense in 3 out of 4 of the articles. I have to admit, I was mentioned once - in the Jen article. But my name was spelled wrong. Even funnier was even though I was in the Jen article "Becca Kutri-Cohart (AE 01)" that acknowledged my graduation date, I did not make the list of graduated seniors (I know I sent a blurb about my exciting post-graduation plans). But I don't feel too overlooked. Karen, the star of the newsletter, did not make the list of graduated seniors either.