Check out this photo of Catherine and Scott.

Aww. Doesn't she look pretty and demure?

Yes. Well. Actually, though, she's imitating X-Pac of the WWE, performing his signature crotch chop and accompanying scream: "SUCK IT!"

She's a competitive girl, is all. Despite this, at Julie, Becca and Na's party over the weekend, teammate Brian and I were victorious. The exact details of that victory remain murky, including what it was we were competing at. But rest assured it must have been a devastating loss for Catherine. And even with the heated rivalries, we all had a good time -- thanks, hosts!

It's a beautiful day outside -- what better way to celebrate it than by hunching over your laptop and enjoying a freshly redesigned webpage? Hurrah!

Two things: first, thanks to knautia for generously offering her Flickr photos under a Creative Commons license, allowing me to take and modify the purty cherryblossom photo underneath this text.

Second, our long-suffering IE users might experience somewhat better performance now -- I am, anyway. For one thing, we ditched the gigantic tiling graphic in the sidebar (for now). For another, the 2x1 pixel GIFs that made up some of the tiling stripe elements have been replaced with larger images. A decent web browser would be able to tile tiny images efficiently. Oh well. I know you'd be using something else if you could.

i'm having a hard time out-hipstering myself, so give a girl a hand: should i go to ipod DJ night at saint-ex on wednesday, or indie rock karaoke at dc9? decisions, decisions. suggestions for setlists/karaoke choices are also welcome.