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Last night I got to attend a benefit for free on the good graces of a friend with a guest list. It was a huge food and wine tasting thing at Capitale with all the top New York restaurants. I kept joking that I'd never eaten so many different animals in my life: rabbit, pig, beef, salmon, tuna, shrimp, duck, etc. and it was all mostly spectacular. I have a full menu from the thing that I may post later, but that would require me posting all the other things I need to post... like the continuation of the Australia diaries and so forth.

Ted Allen from Queer Eye was there, and unlike most famous people I've met, he actually looks exactly the same. At one point I poked Ashley and said, "Ted! By the rabbit table!" which was so absurd on so many levels wekept cracking up.

Then of course there was the goody bag containing a big ladel, and Eileen Fisher gift card that I gave to my roomie (although I'm thinking hte card was preprinted so we could probably both use that code, but I don't think there's anything there that's my style), and a _massive_ gift certificate for www.skinklinic.com that may allow me to get the microdermabrasion necessary to remove my acne scaring.

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Last week I had to buy new linen capris from Old Navy because I wore my other pair out too severely. Like the fabric just started disintegrating in multiple places. Which makes me sad, because those pants were perfect and had travelled around the world with me. Woe.

More woe however is the new pair I don't like as much. The waist is too high, the cut is too narrow and they don't have the cute little ties at the ankle. *sigh* I suppose I need to dig my hideous burnt orange ones out of my trunk and wear those this summer. I mean, they are _really_ funny.

In other news, I auditioned to be a lesbian in a MetLife ad the other day. Ah yes, the joys of being 30 with short hair and a non-P&G face. It's like the P&G folks go from sassy -> soccer mom and us white ethnics go from sassy -> dyke. Ah Marketing, let me pat you on the head as I smile and nod. Also, have noticed in ads that the gay couples are always also the interacial couples now, like... let's concentrate the hate letters to one portion of the campaign. Ah... America... get over it already.

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Right out of Elizabeth Hand, don't you think?