Cascading downwards

Yes, two entries in one day! Because doing anything involving large amounts of text entry at home sucks, unless I want to dig out the keyboard for the tablet.

Anyway. Friday I went to the Metafilter meetup in NYC, and a good time was had by all. It turned into a pub crawl (at least three locations before I had to leave). Second location rocked, as they had hard cider on tap, and I could look like I was drinking beer like everyone else.

Unfortuntely, I went on a mostly empty stomach, drank just a little too much, and may have overshared a touch. Oh well. Hopefully no one thought I was a complete loss as a person.

I did find someone to share my fanfic obsession, and we had a great time comparing favorite themes.

So, definitely attending any future meetups I can, because that was fun. And, somehow, I ended up being treated to all my drinks, so next time I need to stand a round myself.

You know you're a New Yorker when:

The news that there is a movie filming near where you're working today does NOT cause you to think "I might see Nicole Kidman!" but rather, "Dammit, parking's going to be a bitch!"

I just found out that not only do I have a meeting to go to next week (which I usually don't mind, since it means going into the city and getting lots of errands done, but this one is in STATEN ISLAND! I have to make all the way from Westchester to Saten Island by 9:30 a.m. I am not happy, not happy at all.

So I had a friend and her friend visit this weekend, and we did some of the touristy stuff in NYC. Unfortunately, it was mega-hazy all weekend, so we did not do the Statue of the Empire State Building. But the day I joined them (Friday, I had to work Saturday), we spent several hours at the natural history museum.

For some reason, it surprised us that the people in the human evolution section were quite obviously anatomically correct. I guess we're just too used to being "shielded" from the unpleasant fact that MEN HAVE PENISES! and WOMEN HAVE NIPPLES! (No one seems to feel the need to shield from the full breast, just the nipples). It's a sad world where people are shielded from knowing about their own bodies. I mean, in sex ed I remember being taught all the internal anatomy, but we never saw an external picture of anything - what kind of sex ed is that? Sorry, pet peeve.

So, I have finally been in my first car accident ever (well, that I remember - mom says there was one when i was an infant). Luckily, it didn't even qualify as a fender bender.

I was in one of those hellish merge situations that occur only in New York - cars coming in from the left, wanting to take the right lane, cars coming in from the right, wanting to take the left lane, with a whole 20 feet to effect this switch). I saw the guy in front of me start to move forward, so I started to inch and glanced back to check for a break in traffic. meanwhile, someone cut off the guy in front of me and he slammed on his brakes. And since I was still looking behind me, I bumped him.

So, we pull over and get out. He looks at his back bumper and says, "I don't see anything wrong here!" I look at my front bumper and say, "I don't see anything wrong here!" And we shook hands and got back into our cars. And really, it wasn't like my little Corolla could have done anything to his SUV anyway.

So, is that like the best "accident" possible or what? I'm almost happy to have it over with, since it's almost inevitable that everyone is in an accident sooner or later. I felt like I was on borrowed time.