My best friend and I recently decided to take a spontaneous trip to New York for the closing weekend of the ever so fabulous Spring Awakening. Our trip began at 7am on Saturday morning and was drawing to a close by roughly that same time Sunday. It was 24 hours of go go go, which I love love love.

We were able to get on a flight fairly easily and made it to New York around noon. We went straight for the natural history museum where we spent hours drifting through time and space, flitting along with trilobites, chatting with dinosaurs and journeying to the core of the earth. Next we hit the pavement and the park (the central one) and made our way to the beautiful steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (cleverly disguised as the Met). We spent our time roaming through Roman sculptures,  peering at Picasso, and musing over Monet, Manet, and mummies. Delightful!

After our afternoon art fix we donned our party dresses (in the bathroom of the Met no less!) and headed towards the theater district where we found ourselves outside a delightful little Spanish restaurant. Tapas, cheese, breads, and wine (oh the wine!) greeted us as we settled in for our fittingly extended Spanish dinner. Topping it off with tiramisu, gelato, champagne, and a delightful grapa-esque house specialty, we thanked our ever attentive waiter and headed off to the show!!

Stay tuned for Part TWO in the saga of 24 hour travel bliss!!! :P

Food poisoning sucks. I think I now know what death must feel like.

I saw The Duchess last night. Oscar worthy performance? umm, maybe...Thought provoking? surely. Heart wrenching to the point that it makes me all the more sure that I want to spend the rest of my life empowering women? absolutely.

Go see The Duchess.

On the economy and my future. I'm freaked out a little. I want to move to Africa. What happens when we dip into a world wide recession and the hardest hit, poorest countries that are disorganized to begin with turn into complete chaos? I want to be living over there??? I still think I do...

But then again, maybe I should just be thankful that I have a job and paycheck and not chose the worst economic time in recent history to just up and quit and go volunteer making no money for a year. Maybe I should save because the worst is yet to come. Even if i do hate my job.

On the importance of electing Obama: I think that we underestimate the real value in having a good image abroad. What happens if no one wants to by US bonds? What if everyone who controls the world's money now hates us? And of course, what do we do with a president who can't handle campaigning and dealing with the economy at the same time? McCain suspended his campaign to...??? Sit and say nothing and show no leadership? Good then.

And I refuse to even go into the terrible horrible interview that Sarah Palin gave Katy. I now just feel sorry for her more than disliking her.

I haven't done justice to any of these topics and I KNOW if anyone still reads this they are going to pull this stuff apart because of my inattention to any of them.

But I'm spent.