Dinner With Friends

I had a lovely dinner last night with my friend The Minx (who's newest blog project is All Top Chef), the delightful Laura K (from Blogging Bravo and Blogging Project Runway), and Laura K's fabulous friend Roz. Since we all wanted to catch up, no one answered their phones during dinner (which was at Mario Batali's excellent pizza place - Otto). So it wasn't until we had separated and I returned my roommate's missed call that I found out about Michael Jackson's death. Holy Crap - I still can hardly believe it.

In a way, I'm glad we didn't find out during dinner - the sad news would have really dampened a wonderful evening. Otto is a nice place - it's reasonably priced and just steps away from Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Otto specializes in antipasti, small-plate pastas, and delicious thin-crust pizzas! Here are the four pizzas we ordered (and shared)...

Laura K. ordered Four-Cheese...

I can't remember what this one was called, but Roz gave me the slice with the prosciutto on it (delish!)...

The Minx ordered Mushrooms and Taleggio cheese...


Finally, I ordered the asparagus and goat cheese...

After dinner The Minx and I took the subway uptown, and we passed Parsons - where Project Runway is currently filming. There was even a VERY PR-ish white van parked out front...

But, alas, there was no Tim Gunn sighting...

I'm A "Busy Bunny"...

This is going to be an extremely busy week for me. I leave for New Orleans on Friday – and I was a lazy blob this weekend and got nothing done. So in addition to getting caught up at work, I have to pack and do all kinds of other stuff. I also have two big events this week:

Tomorrow: My birthday. I turn 41 – which sounds incredibly old to me. I will spend the evening washing clothes at the Laundromat across the street from my apartment – since I didn’t do it over the weekend. Très glamorous, I know…

Wednesday: The reason I won’t be recapping Project Runway, or the Finale of Shear Genius is because I WILL BE AT THE SHEAR GENIUS FINALE PARTY. My darling Laura K got me an invite – and I’m so excited to see her again. Just to refresh your memory, Laura was the one who arranged THIS. I will also finally get to meet The Minx face-to-face. My darling Minx is responsible for THIS. These are two responsible ladies!

I don’t have a DVR and I won’t have time to watch Project Runway repeats before I leave for New Orleans. So for the first time in the history of DavidDust, there won’t be a Project Runway recap. Trust me, we will all survive – and I’ll be back in time to recap next week’s episode, I promise.

I still don’t know WHAT my enormous self is going to wear to this soiree. I was supposed to go to the Fat Boy Store over the weekend, but as I mentioned, I was sick with the Mad Couch Disease. I was also supposed to get my haircut and go to my tanning salon – but didn’t.

So I’ll just have to be a Busy Bunny all week…