So, two nights ago, I was walking over from our offices to the hotel next door for a little Christmas cocktail hour with my colleagues. Our holiday party, as it were. I introduced myself to a gentleman I'd never met who works out of Texas. He's Danish. Wrap your mind around those two accents for a second. Anyway, I have some passing knowledge of Danish customs, so we chatted for a minute or two.
About twenty minutes later, as I was drinking my rum and diet and wrestling with a tenacious Brie en Croûte at the buffet, when another colleague, from Maine, asked our Danish Texan if we'd met. "Have you met Allison? You need to know Allison."
So, yeah - I'm kind of a big deal.
I was just looking at the word croûte, and I feel that I should tell you - the circonflexe over the u is a linguistic indicator that an earlier version of the word had an S after the vowel - so, basically, "crust". I know, I know - my linguist tangents are just fascinating.
Last night, I went to see a comedian that I've been watching on TV lately. His name is W. Kamau Bell. He has a show called Totally Biased on FX, and he is damn funny. I mean, solidly hilarious. One of his writers opened for us. She was equally funny. Both of them do a lot of social humor - politics, sex, religion... and those things make me laugh. A lot.
I laughed hard enough that I woke up with a sore throat.
Here's a quick celebrity sighting of me with the headliner himself:
I'm having some hair issues, and growing a "third eye" zit, but other than that, good photo. He could not have been nicer!
There was a local guy who opened for him - did an impression of Werner Herzog reading a review of the movie Groundhog Day. I howled.
Laughter is the best medicine. Even if you're not sick.
ae
About twenty minutes later, as I was drinking my rum and diet and wrestling with a tenacious Brie en Croûte at the buffet, when another colleague, from Maine, asked our Danish Texan if we'd met. "Have you met Allison? You need to know Allison."
So, yeah - I'm kind of a big deal.
I was just looking at the word croûte, and I feel that I should tell you - the circonflexe over the u is a linguistic indicator that an earlier version of the word had an S after the vowel - so, basically, "crust". I know, I know - my linguist tangents are just fascinating.
Last night, I went to see a comedian that I've been watching on TV lately. His name is W. Kamau Bell. He has a show called Totally Biased on FX, and he is damn funny. I mean, solidly hilarious. One of his writers opened for us. She was equally funny. Both of them do a lot of social humor - politics, sex, religion... and those things make me laugh. A lot.
I laughed hard enough that I woke up with a sore throat.
Here's a quick celebrity sighting of me with the headliner himself:
I'm having some hair issues, and growing a "third eye" zit, but other than that, good photo. He could not have been nicer!
There was a local guy who opened for him - did an impression of Werner Herzog reading a review of the movie Groundhog Day. I howled.
Laughter is the best medicine. Even if you're not sick.
ae
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