Else what's a heaven for?

Okay, I think I'm ready to give up on Jewish dating events, although this time it was the women who irritated me. I had trouble getting the bartender's attention when I got there and while I was waiting at the crowded bar, some gal pushed in front of me with a loud EXCUSE ME and then just stood there. whiskey-tango-foxtrot. And then I was stuck next to a woman with a thick Joisey accent saying utterly inane stuff and all I could think was, "What am I doing here?"

None of the guys was outstanding, which is unfortunate bc I wanted to at least have funny stories to tell you. ( Kate drinks instead of taking notes. d'oh! ) *sighs*

The gal who sat next to me was so banal, I wanted to scream. She lives at 89th & b'way and worked as a paralegal for a while before going to work for a children's program. When she goes to Las Vegas, she likes to play slots. Geez, grow a pair. I mean um.... maybe this is why I don't date Jewish chicks.

There was one guy who was so boring, I was tired of him before he sat down at station. TG I noted which he was. ( More about the guys. Less snarky. )

And then there was the guy who independently offered that he is a liberal and asked me about my political affiliation. I will grant that he quickly noted that given my professional interests, I'm probably quite conservative. I think I finessed that one pretty well - I told him the truth (fiscal conservative/social libertarian) and left out the Jacksonian foreign policy bit. He came by afterward as I was gathering my things and we ended up walking to Mahmoun's together. I'm so glad he suggested it, bc I had forgotten how insanely awesome their shawarma is. omg. Best. After-drinks. Food. Evuh. We shared a bench with a drunk couple on a date. The girl kept asking us if her date was gay and then she independently offered that we should all go to a SM club together. I said, "Why, do you know where to find one?" and she vaguely pointed toward Washington Square Park. Who knew?

so while discussing politics, I went to Tradesports to see what the betting on presidential nominees was. McCain is the overwhelming fave for (R), which makes sense bc most people don't get irritated by unconstitutional crap like McCain-Feingold, but I can't believe HRC is the overwhelming favorite for (D). I'm still not sure the nutroots gang will support someone who voted for the war and while I think Lieberman will win his race, who does she have supporting her if the nutroots gang abandons her and the deranged Clinton haters still won't vote for her and the party bosses recognize that she cannot win a national election if 40%+ of people wouldn't vote for her even if the Republican candidate were Cthulu.

But let's talk about truly important stuff. I discovered that you can bet on Lance's time this weekend and was shocked to discover there's a nutter betting that Lance won't break 4 hours? whiskey-tango-foxtrot? =I= will be running it in 4:30, if all goes well next year, how the hell can the VO2 King not beat that handily? Then I plugged in some of his past races - apparently he did a 3mi in 20:16 and did another in 18 - and my spreadsheet predicts something like a 3-3:30. And he seemed to be backpedaling in his interview with Runner's World. sna? My trainer says there's speculation he won't finish at all, bc he has hip problems, but that's so lame. He's Lance Fargin' Armstrong!

I'm also really irritated by how merchandised the race is. Apparently the sponsoring club has a deal with NBC to charge $5 if you want to look at the webcams. They also recorded various celebs running the course and chatting so you can listen on your iPod, which sounded neat until I discovered it was $10 to hear Spitzer chatter.