Masks look freakily real these days.

Best falls from the weekend.

The events of 9/18/08.

Spotted 8:25 am: Two roommates presenting third roommate with a birthday suprise sausage, egg and cheese McMuffin with a lit candle stuck in the top. Third roommate is quoted as saying "I can't think of anything I would rather stick a birthday candle in".

A lunch-inspired love email

Lesson Learned: Showing your coworker a new lunch spot goes a long way. Observe the following email I received after doing such a thing.

Subject: Dear, oh darling, dear

Dearest Anna,

I cannot express the amount of gratitude I owe to you on this day, the day you lead my virgin hand deep in to the skyway. The twists and turns to Eddington's were new and could have served a frightful purpose - Minnesotans and small chain restaurants hovering at every turn, waiting to surprise and misguide me. On another day (a day without You) I would have easily fallen to the tricks and ploys of D’Amico, or even a sub sandwich place. But you, (yes You!) dear Anna, (oh Anna!) was there to show me how.

Eddington's has brought such proper spoils, and it is to You I owe my early lunchtime happiness. The chicken tortilla soup, although I know, dearest, is not your soup of choice (the choices overwhelming and abundant!), provides the delicate zest of a chipotle burrito, and the hearty composure of a thick, warm blanket in the bitterest of Minnesota winters.

And that’s a damn load of breadsticks. Oi. I’m too stuffed already.

-w

Coming on a little strong for the doc.

I was so excited about meeting my new doctor today. I’ve always wanted a real doctor of my own because I’ve had random doctors for random things before, but I never had an answer when a form would ask me to name “my doctor”.

The arm rash I went in for was, if you ask me, particularly unimpressive so I feared she thought of me as a hypochondriac. To show her I wasn’t one and that I wasn’t dissatisfied with her diagnosis of “it’s pretty benign, how about you just put a hot compress on it”, I thought I would try to throw a little humor her way.

She asked me when my last yearly pap was and I told her it was this May. She looked confused and double-checked the chart, so I decided to gallantly throw in there “but don’t worry! I’m all yours next year.”

Instead of reacting with a mouthful of laughter and glee, she continued to look puzzled at her chart. She probably just didn’t hear me…right? You would have to be a crazy person not to laugh at that.

Bless this child.

Old lady legs.

Today I got back on the bike after a couple weeks of driving. It felt good to go 13 miles to work by the sheer power of my own tree trunks. Without doing it regularly, however, I was dragging a little. So naturally I wasn't too surprised when a 75-year-old biking grandma hard-core passed me. What did surprise me, however, was that sprouting from her waist was a pair of legs not dissimilar to these:

My week at the RNC.

I'm safe! I walked away from my four days of shooting and editing RNC video coverage with but a mere whiff of tear gas, slightly bloody ankles from my rubbing shoesies, a pesky tum tum ache, and the exhaustion of a professional elephant lifter. But it was worth it! Because here are my babies.
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1. Hockey parents reacting to Sarah Palin's speech. Watch out for the most adorable hockey grandma you have ever and will ever see in your life.


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2. Bike cops part one. Watch for the lady cop who gets cold easily.


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3. Bike cops part two. Although my teammate got a sweet shot of a falcon devouring a pigeon in a tree, we decided we had enough b-roll to suffice.


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4. Bushville. Watch for the puppy!


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5. Peace Team. Notice how all the guys are tall, bald and bearded.