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Well, all sorts of things have been happening lately. Nothing too terribly unusual, but some things that I should probably write down nonetheless.

The Tonys, of course, were Sunday night. I'm a little bit shocked that "Gypsy" was totally snubbed. I mean, I enjoyed "Hairspray" a lot, and I was especially glad that Harvey Firestein beat Antonio Banderas (oooh, now that I'd like to see), but I was waffling on the Marissa/Bernadette thing. Especially because I saw "Hairspray" again last week, and I just didn't think that her performance was earth-shattering. Then again, it was a ton of fun (even though she was flat a couple times). And when I saw Bernadette Peters as Mama Rose, I didn't think she was brilliant. But, I saw it before she "found the character," and I definitely didn't see the same show that Ben Brantley (the Times' critic who raved) saw.

Working in the hotel, of course, there were quite a few Tony-goers and it was a lot of fun to watch them all parading through the lobby in their finery. I got to tie one man's bow tie, and I chatted up the delivery goumba from Harry Winston's who was waiting for one of the nominees to check in. She was stuck in traffic due to the Puerto Rican Parade. We also had more than one wedding going on, so you can imagine the confusion and commotion that ensued because of that. But then, of course, I got to speak to the aforementioned Tony-nominee, which was really cool.

In other news, I chatted briefly on the phone with Williams Sonoma Boy. I think that I will cease hyperlinking him from now on, as regular readers of my blog know what I'm talking about, and the rest of you can just rely on the search function if you want to track this developing story as it happens. We made tentative plans to do something tomorrow evening. We didn't even decide what the "something" is (well, maybe he did?), but said that we'd speak on the phone today to figure out something more concrete. I hope I like him as much outside of the store as I did inside the store. The phone conversation went well. The Tonys were mentioned, and, of course, so was Hillary's new book. I mean, how can you not?

I had a delicious guacamole burger from Jackson Hole for dinner last night. Their burgers are so yummy.

Well, kids, I think that's enough rambling for now. I'm going to go to work. Hooray!

Posted by Jon at June 10, 2003 02:05 PM | TrackBack