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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Pizza and a unibrow.

I feel like an angry pig with a unibrow and a pizza.

Or something like that.

Anyhow, greetings from Barcelona, folks!

It's almost 2am here and Asia and I are both wide awake, watching German MTV. In Barcelona. Did I mention that I'm in Spain? I don't get it. But what I have learned is that MTV.DE is the place for you if you like the Family Guy (in German) or Tila Tequila, A Shot at Love with subtitles. Or, for that matter, the above cartoon, also dubbed in German. (If nothing else that last one will make you feel really weird about being an American. What must they think?!?!)

Asia and I met at the Frankfurt airport yesterday AM, her after a 12 hour flight from Portland, and me after a 7 hour flight from New York plus 5 hours spent in the Lufthansa Business Class Lounge. We were both much worse for wear, but managed to stay up til 11 or so last night before crashing.

We spent the day prepping for the research here in Barcelona (conference calls with photographers and moderators, emails, discussion guide conversations) and wandering the streets in an effort to spend our Euros. We had no luck whatsoever on that front, but it didn't matter. It was more about the wandering than the buying.

Today was full of research, a yummy lunch at our moderator's friend's restaurant (Que Bec! for those wondering), dinner at a randomly mediocre pizza joint in the old part of town, a very stinky elevator, an overabundance of incense, hairspray-infused carpet (seriously, this place has a problem with scents), approximately 2,000 post-its, a trip to the neighborhood organic grocer and now late-night sleep procrastination. All in a day's work.

Anyhow, more tomorrow. Hopefully.

xo










7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah! Blog is back. Been wondering where the heck you were jetting off to this time. Miss you. -b

Anonymous said...

I am so glad you are doing the blog, it makes me smile....Mama

Anonymous said...

Watching late night cartoons in anonymous hotel rooms is the best! Well, if you're stuck with insomnia, that is... Good luck with the research, and thanks for the updates!

Jessica said...

Yeah, Sissy! You're writing again! Speaking of unibrows, I saw a little boy with one in Target yesterday. His mom had nicely manicured brows and it made me wonder if she was just torturing him or if she was waiting for to give him his first waxing session ...

guineverej said...

I would like another update ASAP! I miss my neighbor!!!!
XO, Goose

Unknown said...

i'm with guinevere. I mean, don't get me wrong the uni-brow pig - pizza delivery image still cracks me up. but i want the latest scoop. xo.

Jessica said...

Gabby, you can't tease us like this!!! You're in freaking SHANGHAI now! You've totally skipped over a Paris entry!
xo