Les souvenirs

Of all the friends I'm in contact with today, SameBrain is probably the one I've known the longest, with one or two exceptions. Panda!!!! was thrilled to hear that she was visiting San Francisco for a little work assignment, thus enabling us to spend a lovely dinner together.

We tucked ourselves away at a little French bistro where everything was absolutely exquisite and perfect. We had escargôts en croute, three kinds of patés, a tangy lemony trout for me and a perfectly prepared cow for her. Even our champagne cocktails (bellini! kir royale!) were perfectly made - not too sweet, yet full of flavor.

Our conversation ranged from current gripes about our jobs to our lackluster love lives to the delicious food to woes about our crazy families and, of course, to Lauren Conrad of "The Hills." Like many pairs of old friends, we can quickly pick up our conversations where we last left off, even if it's been months. A friendship that spans years of our antics (singing our respective roles to "Here Comes Your Man"; rapping "Short, tall, skinny, flacas! Even y'all with the big ol' knockas!"; fashioning our own outfits "It's easy, all you need is a pattern, right?"; eating ho-ho's while watching skinemax ... ) is fairly strong by now and we've definitely evovled together.

Anyway Internets, it was a terrific night that was cut off only because we're too old to go on! This responsible Panda!!!! is heading to bed before reporting to The Corporation for some envelope stuffing tomorrow morning!