Bionic Teutonic

Apart from continued work on the bathroom this weekend, I managed to take a break to go to the Stranger’s annual Genius awards on Saturday. For those of you not in Seattle, the Stranger is our local independent weekly, filled with sarcasm, humor, and some great writing thrown in. They also throw a swanky awards party. Free booze, people in various states of formal attire, and smartness oozing out of the people there. I think my favorite honoree of the evening was the literature Genius, Jonathan Raban. He seemed genuinely stoked to get the award and was just all around endearing. As he put it, “for a paper that is the arbiter of all that is young, hip, and cool in this city to give an award to somebody as old, unhip, and uncool as me I find totally awesome.” Me too. You ARE cool Jonathan Raban. The 20 something gay hipster next to me at one point asked “Do you think he’s single?” I am now going to go out and buy one of his books.

Getting close to being done with the bathroom. The final touches are taking longer than I was expecting and have been bringing out some sort of psychosis of perfection. I blame the German in me.

Also, this had me in stitches all morning.

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