It rained all over our housewarming on Sunday, our very first attempt at hosting a party in New York City. We had intended to debut our fab backyard and so, in addition to cleaning and readying the inside of our apartment, I weeded and scrubbed the deck chairs. Clearly, washing patio furniture is the NYC, rain-summoning equivalent of washing your car. But the food was great, and the drinks, custom made by our mixologist friend Marie, were better still. We got to show off our wedding swag — because a registry is the #1 way to up the ante on your kitchenware — and introduce folks from our different worlds who had never collided.
Mr. Ben and I were also captured taking some time off from prep work to enjoy ourselves at another party. (Thanks, Fauxtobooth!) There I met a Wii for the first time and discovered that though I am wretchedly bad at Wii Baseball and Wii Tennis, somehow I am a savant at Wii Bowling. Who knew?
Also, the only thing more fun than an inebriated congregation of like-minded individuals? An American history quiz. Knock yourself out, fellas. I got at 81.67% and it’s a damn good thing I did, or else Swarthmore would ask for its American History degree back. And I have to admit, I was pretty scared throughout. Who the hell knows what battle happened at Yorktown vs. Saratoga?
i took the quiz too. check out all the tendentious nonsense about international relations and ‘free enterprise’! whoa! the sponsors are a wacky right-wing group dedicated to showing that fancy universities don’t actually educate.
i agree! i was so rattled taking it that i didn’t notice til the end that it presented a completely top down, canonical, Great Men view of history. these, of course, are the “facts.”
“You answered 50 out of 60 correctly — 83.33%”
I’ve never been all that great at history, but I’m not bad at guessing what someone wants to hear [grin]…
You two look so cute.