He Writes So I Don't Have To

Better Blogger Boyfriend (whew!) Ryan done good and posted our New York trip photos. He's nice like that.

Our city trip was way too short, but how fantastic was it to see all of my incredibly good-looking and too-smart friends at one table? Beyond words, I tell you. I also got to meet a new baby, Ella, the product of my friends Amanda and Patrick (she's amazing!) Adi and I shopped responsibly, then I ended up in outlet heaven with Lindsay in Riverhead (help!) and I ate some really good carrot cake at Buttercup Bake Shop. And again at CakeMan Raven, whose red velvet cake was so rich that Ryan and I couldn't finish it on the plane. Seriously.

Um, Hi--Also, Suck It

So it's been almost a month and I have a lot to say, but first, a word from lovely Columbia, who keep sending me requests such as this gem:

The Columbia College Board of Visitors will match every $1 young alumni send in to support this year's unrestricted Annual Fund with $2 of their own!

For example, if you send a gift of $100, they will send in an additional $200, for $500 they will send an additional $1,000 for the Columbia College Fund. They will match every gift young alumni send, no matter the amount - up to $100,000! What a great endorsement of young alumni!

The College’s fiscal year ends on June 30, 2005, so make your gift today .

Thank you in advance for being part of this special "matching effort" to help the College!

Um, Columbia? I love you and all, but you are aware that I'm making a mere 2K more than I did right out of college, right? Okay, just checking.

In other Columbia alum news, the latest issue of Columbia College Today published some idiotic letters about putting Janice Min, editor of Us Weekly, my crack, on the cover. I'm not going to fight for Min's right to do what she does, but it's entertainment, and I enjoy it, and she does a damn good job at it. Does this make her a notable alum? I'd say yes. So check this blowhard:

There are graduates who are doctors, lawyers, architects, teachers, professors, politicians, business leaders, archeologists, philanthropists and any other occupation you wish to name who go about living their never-mentioned-in-your-magazine lives who do more to promote something of real value along with the ideals supposedly taught at Columbia than Us Weekly, which does little but fan the flames of cultural illiteracy and devotion to the shallowness of what Western culture has become.

Dude, please. There are also those of us who fall into doing what we do because we happen to be good at something that might not save people's lives. But we do it anyway. Should we quit and be miserable while we build dams in the Peace Corps? Jackass, please advise. It should also probably be mentioned that he was in one of Columbia's last all-male classes. Pig.