Today I...

• drove back from St. Louis, none the worse for wear save a slightly-bruised right knee
• ate indian buffet for lunch (a foreshadowing of Slumdog's Oscars sweep)
• watched the season finale of "The Real Housewives of Organge County" (still not quite over how mean those bee-atches are to Gretchen.)
• had dinner with Chaka Kahn at the Rose Brooks Center Cabaret gala (no offense, CK, but your voice was too big for the venue)
• got home in time to badoop-boop through the Oscars, ff'ing through the slag times and catching up to end "real-time". (enjoyed the Jackman numbers and the five-star presenters - also snaps to Penn for doing the right thing with his acceptance speech.)