genine is leaving! :( she's moving back up to corvallis early next week to finish school (among other things)... i'll miss her! judy, kat, and i took her out to la fondue as a semi-going-away thing. i'd never had anything at la fondue except the chocolate (which is yummy, don't get me wrong), so i was looking forward to eating some other stuff there. we got two pots of the mediterranean cheese fondue, which had beer, sun-dried tomatoes, strong cheddar cheese, garlic, and oil in it. i'm such a cheese freak anyway, but boy was that ever good! cheese: the number one reason that i could never be a vegan.

last night was my first trip to the mint with my teammates... gotta love the selection of showtunes that are well-used in that part of town. annie (one of my teammates) was the only one of us brave enough to get up on stage, and she sang a rousing rendition of pat benatar's "hit me with your best shot." :) funny she chose that song-- i have prior associations with that as my lacrosse team's pumping-up-before-a-game song :) that's the kind of place you really need to go on a weekend night so you can have a few, get silly, and belt out your best without inhibition. on a wednesday night? not nearly as guilt-free.

2004 mls runner-up kansas city wizards may be moving. owner lamar hunt wants to sell because the wizards are "a financial drain on the chiefs." *sigh* no one cares about soccer in this country. what gives? lots of changes for the quakes in the making, too-- gone are the stability of agoos, ekelund, corrales, and donovan. derosario is out of contract and may be looking elsewhere. brown and walker have been picked up in the expansion draft. there's a possibility in seeing the return of wade barrett, but our lines are looking a little thin these days. we'll see how it goes...