I've got no cable, nothing to do, have exhausted recent NPR archives, and am starting to feel guilty about my pilfering of someone else's wireless signal. (But if they're silly enough to not secure their network, they're just inviting me to use it, right?)

The cable company was supposed to come yesterday to hook up my phone and TVs. Apparently I disappeared from their system, though, and so now it will be another week before I am able to watch The Daily Show from the comfort of my own (sofa-less) house instead of at the gym, where I nearly fell off the treadmill 3 times Friday because I was laughing so hard.

I feel I've deserved some veg-out couch potato time, but I've got no platform from which to potato, and I'd just have to stare out the window more. Maybe "deserve" is the wrong word, since my "earning" has consisted of me staying out of my house until 6am Thursday and Saturday nights. Yes, New Orleans knows how to have a good time.

Thursday we met up with some co-workers for happy hour, which devolved quickly into an all-night get-to-know you fest. We went to a burrito place (NO where near as good as Moe's or Willy's), and then to Kingpin, a place with table curling (quite amusing), then a live band show where they were giving away free Smirnoff paraphenalia (I now have a blinking necklace), then a place with, seriously, the best cheese fries I've ever tasted in my life. Ever. Then to a place just next door (where we were the only people and were kicked out because they wanted to close - why? - it was only 5:30!). I had an awesome time. Then T and I hung out at C's place until we decided we wanted to try to leave. (this every other Friday off thing is AWESOME)

The problem was that our two cars were sandwiched between C's car and her housemate's car in a crescent-shaped driveway. I managed to squeeze Dip out between two spindly trees but then T's car wouldn't fit (its an old, mom-style sedan) so I decided to try to drive C's (standard) car -- more like I stalled 5 times in coasting the 10 feet necessary for T to get out. I couldn't shift into reverse (apparently you have to push the shifter down while pushing past first) so T's like, "put it in neutral and I'll push!" so he did, the car was back in place, and C slept/passed out through the whole thing.

Last night was White Linen Night downtown, so a big group of us dressed up, did the art/wine/wandering around thing for a while (there were lots of hoitey-toitey people there doing the same thing but with a more sophisticated air). After dinner we went to the French quarter area and 2 places; T and I have really gotten quite the tour of the hip young scene so far. And again, we ended up at someone else's house this morning until 8 am or so, when we called a cab to take us back to my car. We're going to try to see how many people's houses we can sleep at before we head to Rijswijk in the Netherlands in September. :)

I also went swimming at the gym yesterday afternoon and then T and I laid out for a while (the gym is awesome - it's got 3 outdoor pools and a bar and everything. I felt like i was at camp) and I am definitely a brilliant shade of red today. My (one piece) bathing suit lines looked awesome in my strapless dress yesterday.

So back to the point of this post - it just wasted a bit of time for me, which is great, and I still don't know what I'm going to do with myself today. I think the zoo's going to have ot wait for next weekend, though. Maybe I'll do a finger puppet show for myself, in leui of cable. Or I could go grocery shopping. And do my laundry. And hang some pictures on the wall, all very suburban-working-family-LAME sorts of things to do :)

Hum de dum, such is life without homework (it's really starting to grow on me).