mc hammer likes my breasts

or so he told me.

i was at an industry event on friday night. not knowing the dress code (what does one wear to an awards event for geeks and their enterprises?), i went with my standard MO: fairly conservative but a little sexy - just enough for me to be confident but not conspicuous. my dress that friday night was black, cap sleeved and knee length, and flattering without being revealing. i paired it with my new five inch patent-leather knee high boots. i work for a company founded around women's fashion, so i feel both justified and somewhat required to vamp it up a little when attending work events.

the awards show was entertaining. twine.com had (by far!) the best video response, and the fake-steve-jobs-acceptance was great. sadly, we didnt win, but it was still nice to be there. and of course, there was a party afterwards, and who can argue with open bar and a room full of internet geeks? so off i went to mingle - although i kept close to my work people.

while talking to a new friend after the awards, he informed me that mc hammer was present, and invited me along to get a photo. at first dubious, i was convinced by the circle of flashing cameras at the side of the large room, and went along to see. turns out, mc hammer was there, so i wielded the camera for a photo of my new friend with him, and then waited patiently while hammer turned and talked with someone behind him. when he turned back to me, i asked whether he minded a photo with me. he pleasantly rebuffed any concern, and as he put his arm around my waist for the photo, he informed me quite matter of factly that i had nice breasts.

note the aforementioned comment about my dress not being revealing. im a shapely girl, and i was complimented on my dress by several people, but i was hardly 'on display' and was certainly not expecting to hear that. under normal circumstances, i would probably have used my five inch heels to inflict some pain, but this was mc hammer. how can you even get mad? its impossible to do anything but laugh, which i did. for the rest of the night. repeatedly.

i have yet to email the kind gentleman with the camera. but this memory, alone, should last a lifetime.

wikiHow

holy crap! how i wish that i had seen this article when i was moving to sf.

its a great breakdown of how to handle a lot of the smaller (and bigger) details relative to moving. youll learn most of this stuff the first time you do a big long-distance move on your own, but if you were like me (my only other move had been to and from college, which frankly - doesnt count), then you could have used a clear heads up. for anyone moving again, its a great reminder list, and a timeline for anyone who is suddenly too frantic to remember all the lessons they learned last time.

highly recommended for anyone who has made the courageous and thrilling decision to uproot and try something new!

365

several of my massively talented friends are in various stages of a wonderful and increasingly common photography project called 365 days. i have been watching many of them since the beginning of their projects, and am beyond impressed - although of course not surprised - at some of the gems this project has produced.

for any not familiar, the idea is that you take a photograph of yourself every day for an entire year. theres a lot of freedom in the idea, and i think as an exercise its fantastic; it forces you to accept some discipline without applying creative constraints, as well as encouraging you to examine yourself and the world around you in new and different ways every day. theoretically, anyhow.

i am thrilled that my friends are doing this, since i am stupid busy but love to keep up with their lives - if not directly, then by keeping tabs on them via teh internets. thats litestalking borne of love, my dears, but im sure you know that. ;)

if i can manage to pick out a new camera (i need a compact or ultra-compact that manages to not make everyone look bloated - please send me recs!), then i may join the ranks of this project. for entertainment, of course, not because i could ever hope to parallel some of the work i have seen thus far, which again - is consistently great, and occasionally staggering.

a few links on the left, for easy viewing!

one little redhead, just thinking out loud.

despite having a few other blogs from 2004-ish (still owned by me, but dormant), i nabbed this one because... well, its my name, and im rather attached.

also, its a new year. and why not?


we will see what this one does for me!