Look, look, LOOK what Colleen, Melissa, and Kate made for me!!! (Okay, it was mostly Colleen, but Mel and Kate helped by providing material!) See, I was supposed to join them in New York City this past weekend, but I couldn't go because, you know, my cat had this little kidney problem. I was SOOO disappointed, and made them promise to tell me every single thing they did. I thought we would just exchange e-mail about it, but no, not when you're talking about digital-camera-toting, web-designing Colleen!

I'm telling you, there's no end to the generosity of these girls, and I am so proud and blessed to call them my friends. And yes, it was nice to know they missed me as much as I missed them! So go read about their fabulous trip... believe me, it will be just like you were there too!

So, remember yesterday, when I was telling you about the girl I went to high school with whose law review article I found in my research? Well, I e-mailed her, saying hello and telling her about the article and that I thought maybe I had read in the alumni magazine that she had gotten married and wondering what she was doing in her career since I was looking for ideas about a job. And she wrote back today to say that sure, she remembered me and yes, she had in fact gotten married, and well, they're back living in DC and oh, by the way, she's clerking for Justice Souter.

That'd be Justice David Souter, of the United States Supreme Court.

Believe me, it isn't like Supreme Court clerkships are a dime a dozen. They're pretty much the Nobel Prizes of law school graduates. It was very humble, how off-the-cuff she was about it, and it was quite embarrassing, how I asked her what she was doing because I was looking for ideas. I felt like the guy in Notting Hill who asked Julia Roberts how much she got paid. "Oh, 15 million dollars." So, what are you doing with your career? "Oh, I'm clerking for a Supreme Court Justice."

Oh.

I'm currently watching Charmed for the first time ever. I don't get the WB network on my cable system, but I realized only a short time ago that my ABC affiliate runs the WB shows on weeknights at 12:35 a.m. Which means that I could have been watching Buffy all this time, or at least taping it to watch at a reasonable hour.

Anyway, this Charmed isn't that bad. It reminds me of the couple of Buffy episodes I have seen, very tongue-in-cheek-ish. And it's certainly better than Craig "there's-nothing-sadder-than-a-40-year-old-frat-boy" Kilborn. But I have to admit, I still have a hard time looking at Shannen Doherty. I hate to ruin this for you, because if you haven't ever noticed this about her, it's all you'll be able to see from now on, but her eyes are completely uneven. One of them is way higher up on her head than the other. It's very disconcerting.

I did a very dangerous thing today. I went to Sam's, without really needing anything. I had to go to my parents' house today, and I was compelled to stop on my way home.

There's nothing like wondering aimlessly around a large warehouse full of stuff I don't need.

I did okay, though. I had been looking for a Millennium New Year's compilation video (I had missed a lot of it, as we had been out shopping and such during the day) and they had one from CNN for only $8.95, so I picked that up. I also got a self-help book (I know, I know) from a guy I've seen a couple times on Oprah, and it was only $6.78. And I bought 240 Super-Mega-Vitamin-Mineral-Herbal combo vitamins for $9.99.

You should see what's in these suckers. Not only is there 1700% of the RDA of almost every vitamin and mineral known to man, there's also your ginko biloba, your ginseng, your kelp, your grape seed extract. (Grape seed extract? Aren't those suckers pretty small? What the hell can you extract from them?)

The only thing wrong with them is the calcium: only 16%, so I'll still be taking an extra supplement. (Take your calcium, girls. I don't care how much milk you drink or ice cream you eat, you're not getting enough calcium, I guarantee it.)

But speaking of ice cream: MY GOD. It takes a lot to impress me in the ice cream world, but I have been astounded, shocked, floored. I have found the most food-gasmic ice cream in existence.

It's Jeremy's Microbatch Tiramisu.

Tiramisu. It's out of this world. There's tiramisu-flavored ice cream (there's actual marsala wine in it), chocolate flakes, vanilla ladyfinger cookies, and an espresso swirl. It's heaven in a little pint of ice cream.

Normally, I don't even stop at the specialty-ice-cream section of the freezer. Only when my trusty Giant is out of my beloved Edy's Grand Light French Silk do my eyes ever wander to see what else is out there. Even then, I rarely buy premium ice cream, because usually I do have the self-control to stick to some kind of low-fat option.

But that "tiramisu" word just jumped out at me, I had to try it. And since the carton proclaims its "limited edition" status, I am seriously considering starting a stockpile. Maybe it's the alochol in it, but holy cow... Colleen has her Crack Salad, and I have definitely found my Crack Ice Cream.

Now we're on to Moonlighting. (For those of you keeping score at home, it's just after 2:00 a.m.). It's the season premiere of the third season, after the second season finale when David and Maddie started sleeping together (actually, they slept together at the very end of the episode right before the season finale, but that would be way too pathetic for me to point out), and right before the show went into the toilet. But they just had a scene where David and Maddie have a conversation just after he gets out of the shower, and I was suddenly reminded why it was that I was completely obsessed with Bruce Willis when I was 15.