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My mom took me to see “Wait Wait — Don’t Tell Me” last night. We laughed for two hours straight. If you live in or near Chicago, you should go. If you don’t, listen to the show this Saturday (or to the podcast after 19:00 EST Sunday) and you might hear us cackling. O yeah, and I got autographs from Roxanne Roberts, Paula Poundstone, and Peter Sagal, who likes my Visconti fountain pen. Of course he does, because he is awesome. We have done ridiculous amounts (i.e. more than 15 minutes) of shopping for proper corporate clothing since I got here. I discovered the designer Eileen Fisher, who makes clothes that look good on short, lumpy me, so now she is my new favorite designer. Not like I know any other ones, except for Isaac...

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