oh hi after seven months

Disappeared to Philadelphia for a few days to frolic through Rittenhouse Park with one Miss Rachel, who is leaving Center City after three smashing years to go study brains for a living at a large Midwestern university. We had a ball as always: wine and tapas (including the fanciest little cheese plate) at Tinto; the Mutter Museum (a totally sketchtastic haunted mansion full of medical weirdnesses; they have an entire wall full of human SKULLS and it tells you how they all died, and also they have a tiny little piece of John Wilkes Booth in a jar. Rachel said: “You’re going to love it for half an hour, and then you’re going to want to puke,” and she was right); an Office/30 Rock/Community marathon; cinnamon and basil gelato; drinks at a cozy little jazz bar; two street fairs (with puppies!); long walks, large coffees, hilarious facebooking, good talks. Rachel: you are and continue to be the awesomest. I am so glad I have known you for so long.

Other things: the iPhone leak, volcanoes, everything about Homeland, which is finished and made me cry twice, my feisty college roommate coming for Lost tonight, the blooming tree outside my office window, iced coffee and a walk to the library this afternoon, sangria, thank-you cards, words words words.

Happy Tuesday.