headphones and weekend update

This probably sounds weird, but I have a complete inability to wear headphones and eat at the same time. I don't know what it is, but something about having headphones in/covering my ears while I'm chewing is incredibly uncomfortable. Which means me trying to transcribe the interview I did this past weekend will just have to wait (and ugh, how I hate transcribing). This whole weird headphone-thing also makes lunchtimes at my desk a very quiet affair, not only b/c I sit in the nuclear wasteland section of the office building, but b/c I can't play meal-time tunes. But anyway.

Here's a bit of an update on my weekend:
- Moderated at an Asian College Fair event for an appearance by actor James Kyson Lee. I was nervously word-vomiting when we were in the prep room, and he asked, sounding confused, "So, uh...you're a journalist?" No, James. I'm just an idiot.
- Covered a Tibetan celebration of the 3rd anniversary of the Dalai Lama's conferment of the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, which was fun. A little sleepy girl mistook me for her mother and wouldn't let go of my arm/rubbing her face on me. She was so incredibly cute, I very nearly spontaneously became pregnant.
- Decided to make beef bourguignon as a surprise for Tyler, which apparently takes like 32375 ingredients. Spent about an hour picking everything out at the Jewel, then experienced a bit of a setback when I tried to buy a bottle of red wine (a key ingredient) b/c the cashier thought I was using a fake. I went back and got that bad puppy with my passport, but it was a pretty frustrating event. Never did get to make beef bourguignon, which apparently also takes like 3 hours to make. (Well, the recipe said 3 hours, an 'easy' level recipe; knowing me, it would be more like 4.5 hours plus an emotional breakdown.)

And now, back to the grind...