Happy Mardi Gras, y'all!

I had a nice dinner with Dionysia last night. We should do that more often :)

Food and fitness stuff is going well, though I'm missing dance class tonight for our office manager's retirement dinner. I must get the butt moving later in the week (despite plans most nights).

EDIT: our office manager is sick, so we won't be taking her to dinner after all. Its dance class for me tonight (feel that burn!). :)

This made me cry in the car this morning. Its a sweet story about love: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5230164

"True Locals"

"Is New England losing its regional character?

''This used to be the home of the frugal Yankee, the stoic stiff-upper-lip Yankee, the modest/unassuming Yankee," writes the author of the Diana Chronicles blog (dianachronicles.blogspot.com). ''What does it mean to be a New Englander today? So many people have moved into New England in the past 10-20 years, the New Englander is an endangered species, to be extinct within the next generation or two."

She makes a list of subtle ways to tell the true locals from the newcomers.

Vanity plates: Locals would never have one on their car (they wouldn't spend the money and wouldn't want the attention), while newcomers can't get enough of them (especially cutesy ways of spelling their name or the location of their second home).

Preferred car: Locals drive Saabs, Subarus, and Volvos, while newcomers drive SUVs, Mercedes, and Lexuses.

Thanksgiving meal staple: For locals, it's corn bread. For newcomers, it's ''jalepeno" corn bread.

Yard work: Locals mow the lawn, walk the dog, and shovel the snow themselves. Newcomers hire the help."

From http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/02/26/true_locals_newton_debt_diners/

The Good Body

(I'm catching up with my Sunday paper during my lunch break, hence these links)

Eve Ensler (of The Vagina Monologues Fame) is doing a new show that will be in Boston in March, The Good Body. It touches on women and their body issues: http://www.maj.org/P2006/GoodBody_Story.html

Its a short run, but does anyone want to go?