The House of Reps sent people home for a long weekend, MLB rearranged scheduled games on the east coast, people are evacuating by the thousands...weather forecasters have a lot of power. I'm impressed. Speaking of baseball, the wild card standings show all the teams in the league and how close they are in the race. Is this necessary? The poor Detroit Tigers are 50 games out! They've only won 38 games all season. I think we know they won't make the playoffs...

I picked my sister up from the airport last night after she was delayed in Boston. She has some new mysterious back ailment, so every five minutes she gasped in pain. Other than that, we had a lovely time. We joined her husband for dinner at Topolobampo which was amazing. They have one dish with Huitlacoche mushrooms, which only grow on corn. Because the mushrooms are so rare, a professor at the U of I grows them -- injecting each stalk of corn -- for the restaurant. Which I think is pretty darn cool. As is the idea of a 4-star Mexican restaurant.

They're coming over to my apartment today for drinks before dinner, which means I've been obsessively cleaning. and am still worried. and need to buy something for them to drink, but hey...

It seems like all the U of C folks I know are posting about worry that the entering 1st years will read their blogs. I'm pretty sure they won't find mine, but in case they do: hi. I'm really cool. I'm on staff but I'm younger than 50. You should be nice to people on staff, they work as hard as the profs for much less glory and pay. Thank you.

Isn't it amazing that I incorporate so much enthusiasm and bittnerness into one choppy paragraph?

The NYTimes thinks we are in a postliterate world. Awesome. Now instead of accusing Jon of being postmodern (which he is) I can tell him he's postliterate. Also it adds new depth to the "God, she's just so ... post..." comments one occaisionally hears. But seriously, the New Yorker festival sounds cool, so I'll stop being snide. maybe.
- posted by Heidi @ 7:42 AM