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    The Chinese by Jesper Becker - (K&T) Modern history of my peeps, from the cultural revolution to the many failed economic and social attempts to move the country forward
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    Setting the Table by Danny Meyer - A "how-to" on hospitality and business acumen by the restaurateur behind such NY institutions as the Shake Shack and Union Square Grill
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    The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama - Obama lays out what is wrong with the current government and how, vaguely, to change it.
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I’m In! – NY City Marathon

So today I received the following e-mail from NY Road Runners:

Dear Kelly,
We are pleased to confirm that you have been accepted for entry into the 2008 ING New York City Marathon. Our records have been updated to reflect your acceptance. Your entry number is 237470. [...]

Week in Review

Mussles and Micky D’s fries
It’s been a pretty cool week. No celeb sightings yet (which people say is unheard of, being that we live in the hipster-infested Lower East Side, or LES), but this week was sunny, fun and I got to hang out with some cool people.
Monday – Met Molly, Wendy and two [...]

Felix

K & I are heading to Seattle tomorrow, albeit on different flights. I’m going early enough to catch our company’s “Earth Day Lunch” in the Seattle Sculpture Garden, which means waking up at 4:15am to catch a 6:00am flight. The best part about early flights is that I fall almost instantly asleep. The worst part [...]

A Night in the Kitchen

Last night, I spent five hours in a working restaurant kitchen. The experience was interesting and enlightening and I’m glad I got the chance to do it. I hesitate to say which restaurant it was, but suffice to say it is a very well known Spanish tapas restaurant in Chelsea. A friend of Kelly’s knows [...]

Mom and Dad Sale in NYC

Mom and Dad were here for 4 days last weekend. We had a great time with them, and here are some of the highlights:

Dinner and Jazz At Jules Restaurant

Colorado Snow Trip

It is just my luck that the one year I leave Seattle, La Nina kicks in and the Northwest experiences one of the snowiest winters on record. It seems every day in December and January I would pull up the NOAA information for Mt. Baker and be greeted with 25 degree temps and 7″ of [...]

A Shake Shack Kinda Day, or Diesel Is Not Always Innocent

With the in-laws in town (highlights to come), we decided to show Mom and Dad Sale some of our favorite spots.
Enter David. The man that will turn a visit to Shake Shack into an event. He texted me in advance (2 days in advance to be exact) to inform me that he [...]

From Internet to Real Life, or Blog-Stalker

Last Wednesday I met up with Molly, aka Restless Reader, and Laura, aka Queen Bee, ringleader of Oh, Bee-have! for dinner at Lan Cafe, a vegetarian/vegan Vietnamese restaurant in the East Village.

Molly is a former co-worker from Seattle, and although I lost touch with her, it’s been good hanging out with her here. Before [...]

Français

Several weeks ago, I was reading a book at a local coffee shop, Earthmatters, and my ears perked up when I heard two girls speaking French, in what seem to be some sort of tutoring.  Being nosy like I am, of course I went up to them and asked if she was a tutor, and [...]

Weekend Minus Diesel

With Diesel still on his snowboarding trip, I got my last chance to spend some time with friends this week and do whatever I wanted to do. Don’t get me wrong, I miss him, but when he’s not around I get to do stuff that annoys him without being pestered. Things such as [...]