Blogging

There is a great article on blogging and exposing yourself (and your personal life) through blogging by Emily Gould that will be published in this Sunday's Times Magazine. It can be viewed here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25internet-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

While Ms. Gould wrote about very personal aspect of her life on her blog, one really must consider the relationship between one's privacy and the Internet. Clearly having a blog (unless you use a pseudonym and don't tell anyone of the blog's existence) exposes you and your thoughts. If you Google my name, my blog is the first line. I clearly am willing to expose a part of myself and my life, if anyone chooses to read. But I think I draw the line at an appropriate place. I don't think I give too much of myself. I certainly am not going to experience panic attacks from the extent of my revelations. Regardless, I found Ms. Gould's article to be of particular interest in a world where we constantly have to question our privacy as a cause of the Internet.

On a final note I will leave you with Ms. Gould's words:

The will to blog is a complicated thing, somewhere between inspiration and compulsion. It can feel almost like a biological impulse. You see something, or an idea occurs to you, and you have to share it with the Internet as soon as possible. What I didn’t realize was that those ideas and that urgency — and the sense of self-importance that made me think anyone would be interested in hearing what went on in my head — could just disappear.

But when you view her personal blog, Emily's Magazine, it seems she has not fully lost the will to blog.

I heart Top Chef

I am totally addicted, as I am every season. Dale kind of irritated me, so I wasn't too sad to see him go last night. BUT Lisa absolutely drives me up the wall. Can they PLEASE make her pack her knives? Can anyone stand her? Ugh, I hate her.

I always love the restaurant wars episode! Seriously, how good did the beet and goat cheese salad look? Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntunapa.com/), a fabulous vegetarian restaurant in Napa, has an amazing beet salad that I am now craving thanks to the Warehouse Kitchen team. That trout looked pretty delicious too. I don't even like clams, but wanted to test them out.

One last Lisa complaint. She screwed up rice two weeks in a row. How does she not get sent home? Rice is not that hard to make. Ugh, she is awful!

I have absolutely no respect for Esquire

Esquire compiled a list of the 100 best bars in America. (p.s. how do you get the job of bar tester? sign me up, I am available.) Okay, great idea. Washington, DC has two of the 100 bars. Seemed like a small number for such a metropolitan area, but DC is after all just a district and not that large. It makes sense that California and New York have much longer lists.

But I was completely appalled to see Hawk n Dove made the list of the top 100 bars in the country. Hawk n Dove is where we went freshman year of college because you didn't need to be 21 to get in. And there were creepy sweaty awful people everywhere. It is by far one of my lease favorite bars that I have EVER been to.

Also, the other bar The Tune Inn, just happens to be very close to Hawk N Dove. Coincidence? I think not. Clearly Esquire's bar sampler did not do his homework. Shame on you.

Why are men so disappointing?

After my previous post I am totally sounding like a man hater today, but it is justified. Once again the men in my life have let me down. And this time I am talking about the Georgetown Hoyas (so while they may not know I exist, they are one set of men that are in my life).

Apparently both Jeremiah Rivers and Vernon Macklin are transferring. See the Hoya story here: http://www.thehoya.com/node/16081. I think it's disloyal to leave your team behind all because they didn't make it to the final four this year.

I was tempted to tear down my Georgetown Men's Basketball poster out of anger, but I like it too much. So it's here to stay for a while.

I've been a bad girl!

Actually I have been a bad blogger ... consumed with finals and this beautiful spring weather in DC. But with the excitement of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, I have come out of hibernation.

At the luncheon I attended that featured speaker Chris Cillizza he mentioned that there really isn't anyone who has the authority to tell HRC to drop out of the race before the convention. The only person with that authority would have been Bill, but clearly he has an active interest in the campaign.

Former Sen. George McGovern who backed Hillary early has dropped his support and now is backing Obama. Uh oh! This is going to get interesting. How pissed must Hillary be? Some links on the topic:
http://www.kxmc.com/News/236037.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050701425.html?hpid=topnews

Also, I think it's interesting that McGovern said he was going to call Bill. Bill isn't running for President. If he decides to drop his support for Hillary, then maybe he should be letting Hillary know this decision. Uh men! is all I have to say.

Love it!

Great Time magazine cover!

Sweet Facebook/McCain thinks March Madness is still going on

I just got a Facebook update from the McCain bracket group reminding me to fill out my bracket. It says "Reminder: Make your bracket picks today!"

I wonder if this is an error with the new notification system or with McCain's bracket page.

Sort of interesting.