Lilotchka

You Can't Take the South Out of the Girl

Notes

Things I Did for the First Time This Year

  • Put eyeliner on
  • Went to Australia
  • Saw an opera at the Met
  • Lived in sin
  • Had hummus in Abu Ghosh
  • Was on The Today Show
  • Snorkeled
  • Read George Eliot (and then couldn’t stop reading George Eliot)
  • Attended a bris
  • Won a beer-drinking contest on the Staten Island Ferry (related: it was the first time I attended a bachelorette party on the Staten Island Ferry)
  • Saw a show at the Public
  • Tried stem-cell skincare products
  • Puked in the back of a cab
  • Sold a travel article
  • Taught a sign language class (instead of just subbing in on someone else’s or guest-lecturing for a day)
  • Did the Balthazar power breakfast (hey, Jolie!)
  • Made a passable dinner not from a box
  • Went to Shakespeare in the Park