better things to do

i never update this thing, maybe because my job involves blogging and i've sort of come to hate the whole medium. but at work i have to write about small events in local politics, not actual life. which i've had some of. in the past month, i've:

kayaked up to a pier where a woman sang "like a virgin," accompaigned by five or six accordians;

drank on three fire escapes and two roofs, with only one significant bruise;

seen the guy from "what not to wear" and bree's crazy boyfriend from "desperate housewives,"

eaten chinese food with old jewish people, one of whom described a college friend as "a communist and quite a swinger";

seen tv on the radio, and martha wainwright, and belle and sebastian, and some son of a friend of a friend of my father's at a bar i went to a few times last summer;

wacthed two artists compete, iron chef-style, with styrofoam everywhere and critics and reporters in fedoras and an organ, and "could you use the word praxis?";

and some more things that i don't remember. but i think it was all nice. friday is the siren festival, and sunday is the petanque competition.