Wanna be one of my 5?

Our new cell phone plan lets us have unlimited calls to our 5 "favorites" so I've had to decide this week who makes the cut, heh heh. The first 3 were easy--S, my mom, and Mudflap--but the next 2 were not. Fortunately, we can change the 5 once a month so if I should need to change them out for some reason it can be done on a regular basis. Anyway, I was trying to decide who I talked to the most often, or would be talking to the most often this month, and finally I added my brother and... oh, I'll leave #5 anonymous here for now! (Don't wanna make my pals all jealous of each other.) Maybe #5 can be the "rotating" friend from month to month. Stay in my good graces, maybe you'll be promoted! "Friend of the Month" as it were.

Tonight I am going to get advance tix (much cheaper than at the door) for I-Fest. How can I say this delicately... I LOVE I-FEST! I've had some of the best times of my life there! I have no problem going even by myself every year, b/c I always, always, always run into a million people that I know. Plus, as a cute single female, it's always better to be solitary, the better to get right up front against the stage so that Taj Mahal, Dr. John, Robert Cray, Los Lobos, etc. see you and smile at you and even sweat on you sometimes! However--this year I will not be alone for once, as I plan on taking the baby out there one day, and S has insisted that we go see George Clinton and Funkadelic as well. I do have to say though, that this year's musical lineup did not thrill me very much. Usually I can be found desperately racing from stage to stage in order to see 2 or more bands at once, and this year that just ain't the case. I am almost always out there all 4 days and this year it looks like I'll only be out there for 2.

I tried to get out of going to Galveston on Saturday, but it is not to be. They are definitely going to hold the meeting at the beach condo after all. L. says she and her little boy will come with me so she can watch the baby while I am busy in the meeting. I just wonder if it'll be too disruptive having my "nanny and entourage" there! Ah, screw it, I don't care. Saturday will be one busy day--after Galveston the baby should be passed out by then and when S gets home we are going to drop off the baby at Auntie R.'s house so we can go to J.Fi's engagement party. I sort of didn't really want to go to the engagement party, but I am serving some sort of TBD function in the wedding party, so I'm kind of obligated to go. The main thing was, I don't really have anything in common with J.Fi's people. They are all major yuppies, no kidding. I just have nothing to say to status-seeking, career-climbing, football-loving, image-preening, stock-investing, BMW-driving yuppies. At J.Fi's fiance's b-day party that I went to a couple of months ago (where, by the way, I couldn't help but notice that I was the only non-white there), I spent all my time with his parents! His dad and I talked guns big time. Oh well, at least this party at her parents' ginormous expensive house is guaranteed to be very nice with more than enough booze and food so DH and I should at least have a minimally decent time.

Job #1 note: The candidate to replace our boss has accepted employment elsewhere so we are still recruiting. Ha, good luck! Meanwhile, my 2 colleagues seem to be fine with dumping all the literature search requests on me, the consumer health librarian. What the hell do they do around here, anyway? Seriously, we had 17 lit. searches last month and I did 12 of them. Now I've got 2 more waiting on my desk. Whatever. I'll take this as a sign that I'm a damn good librarian and an expert searcher and possibly superior to them (denial: it's not just a river in Egypt!) and they know it. Still, why can't I find any articles today on hormonal additives in cow's milk leading to adolescent girls' menstrual dysfunctions???

I just want tonight at home to get here ASAP. I'm going to make bagel pizzas and S and I are going to settle in for a long night of The Shield watching.