So today was yet another interesting day.

Today we had Shel Israel and Robert Scoble, authors of Naked Conversations, speak to us. After about 20 minutes, I was sadly convinced they had nothing new or enlightening to add to the blog-o-sphere. They seemed like nice guys but talking about how corporate blogging can help an image and this thing called 'syndication', etc just didn't seem to be anything anyone in the room didn't already know :(

The cool thing about the day was that I went to eat dinner in chinatown and these 4 people sat at the next table. One guy which I recognized as Brian Austin Green. Super cool :) My friend and I bombarded him as he was outside for a cigarette and got his autograph. I started the conversation with him very gracefully with a stuttering, "Are you an actor?". I guess it was a welcome change since the last guy who talked to him before me asked him for change. Anyhow, I got celeb-shock and ended up walking in the wrong direction back to work. Maybe if I meet more celebs, I could get used to this? haha riiiight. like that'll happen ;)

Last cool thing -- Ben Harper mini-concert at work yesterday! He played "Morning Yearning", "Gather Round The Stone", and "Please Don'T Talk About Murder While I'm Eating" from his new album. He remarked that our attendance was a clearly productive use of our time, to which we heartily agreed. haha and he also thanked us for all the books :)

0x002a on "Why I'm not a dog person".

I thought it would be fun to get a dog. Afterall, I've always wanted a dog. I was born in the year of the dog. I already dislike cats (sorry, mere!). And anything bigger than a dog will probably eat me.

So why am I not a dog person?

Today, I decided to get a dog. Well, rather, I got a poo chi. 5 minutes in, I realized this could be a mistake. Why does it bark? What does it want? Am I a bad mother?

In answer to the last question, I'm taking breaks from this blog to find places to hide this toy (i.e. in the drawer, in between my (clean) gym clothes, etc.) -- everything to just muffle the sound because (disclaimer!) you can't turn it off. That's right. It goes on and on and on like a tamagotchi, but more 3D and well, about 50x the size. I don't think my tamagotchi lived very long either.

Maybe poo chi will have more fun at home. I'd like to keep him on my desk but I'm not in that big a need of a guard dog at the moment.

Maybe I should stick to humans.

But not baby humans. It's illegal to put those into drawers and in between clothes.