The wedding shower was a big success, as long as you ignore the elder relatives' comments that it "sure was different!", which I am. We did an Asian theme, so one of the bridesmaids organized a selection of exotic teas (iced because it was freaking hot on Saturday), and I did Asian-themed appetizers, and another bridesmaid made beautiful origami flower tablepieces, and we got custom fortune cookies made up with messages for the bride and groom. Food-wise, it was sweet and spicy pecans, curry puffs, chicken satay with peanut sauce, fresh spring rolls with herbs and crispy tofu and hoisin dipping sauce, honey-soy-glazed beef skewers, and Thai-inspired shrimp dressed with garlic, chili, and fish sauce. And, miraculously, the only thing that didn't turn out was the curry puffs, which never crisped quite as much as they should have.

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And now, a meme, ganked from elisi:

My journal is called _____ because _____.
Dances With Words -- because I am extraordinarily uncreative. Must fix that someday.

My subtitle is _____ because _____.
A day late and a dollar short -- because I am. Regular readers have probably already noticed me noticing and/or squeeing over things that everybody else figured out a long time ago.

My friends page is called _____ because _____.
Friends -- see above re: extraordinarily uncreative.

My username is ____ because _____.
Have you ever gone out with a friend and, over the course of a dinner that included three martinis, made fun of Kevin Costner's film oeuvre, then came home and signed up for a livejournal? No? Well then, that's why I have this username and you don't. After a year and a half, it only makes me cringe a little. See also above re: extraordinarily uncreative.

My default userpic is _____ because_____.
The one with the Bay Bridge and my (ahem) username, because the lovely and talented sdwolfpup made it, and since I've apparently morphed into a multi-fandom ho, I need something neutral.

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My TiVO seems to think I'm an incredibly loserish fifteen year old boy, judging by the suggestions it's chosen to record for me. The good: Soylent Green. The bad: Andromeda. The ugly: Godzilla (the Matthew Broderick travesty). I guess this is what happens when your season passes revolve around SciFi Friday. And I also guess that everybody else figured out that TiVO will make potentially embarrassing assumptions about your personality about five years ago. See above re: my journal's subtitle.

And I got the DVD recorder and figured out how it works, and even how to make chaptered DVDs, so that's very exciting. For my next act, I'll be taking over the world Thursdayish.

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I'm reading a very fascinating book on rats in New York City right now. It's called, unsurprisingly, Rats and is by Robert Sullivan. I hadn't really thought before about how wherever there are people, there are rats, how intertwined their biology is with our social and urban development and our history. They're pretty disgusting creatures, at least in their urban habitat, but they've been living on human leavings for millenia, our constant companions, impossible to get rid of, and I have a sort of fascination for how they've evolved to be so intractable. And even though I'm not very familiar with the city (having been there only once, on a seventh grade school trip), I'm finding the urban history really interesting.

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I'm meeting up with laurashapiro in a few hours for Middle Eastern food and fannish talk and so that she can continue to indoctrinate educate me on this vid thing. Yay!