Spies, Traitors & Saboteurs, Oh my!

I need to remember not to log into my Gmail or Yahoo accounts using a different account from the one I use here if I'm in the middle of writing a post. I had everything looking good and ready to go, and then **blip** all gone. So this is a slightly abbreviated version...

Last night I went with Eye Doc to a happy hour/cocktail party at the National Constitution Center. It was in conjunction with their Spy Museum exhibit. It was actually a little nicer than I thought it was going to be, but was the usual... people already had their clicks and weren't quite so anxious to include new people. But it was ok.

There was guy who flirted with us towards the end. I think he may have been more into Eye Doc, but when I fb friended him earlier today, he accepted and wrote back almost immediately. He was too old for me but funny. He used to work at the Pentagon so he gave us an "insiders view" of the exhibit. He was very much the kibitzer, so it was more fun and games than informational, but it passed the time. As we were leaving he asked if we had any business cards. Eye Doc said no, and I sort of followed suit, but in my bag were my "Sassy but Sophisticated" cards. Why didn't use them? I really need to get more comfortable with social situations and stop analyzing everything.

I was thinking this as we were leaving the museum, and while we were walking along, there was a very cute biker who had those blinking lights on the back and front of his bike. one of them had fallen off, so as Eye Doc & I passed and made some sort of "Oh, that's too bad" comment, so he looked up from picking up the light and asked me to blow on it, for luck he said. So I did and smiled again. And we kept walking. Eye Doc said that it looked just like a movie scene, very magical. I felt very much like Sophia Loren. Oh, did I mention he had an accent? Of course, little miss never paying enough attention to the person in front of her, can't say what he looked like exactly, or where is accent was from. But the moment? It was magical. I guess that's what they mean when they say live int eh moment? I just wish I was paying more attention to it as I was living it.

Tomorrow night? Book reading and signing by Jennifer Weiner at the Gershman Y!