Bustin'!

I switched days this week at the publishing house, so D.J. and I could finally participate in Take Our Daughters To Work Day, something we seem to overlook every year. She gets to miss school, and I get someone to talk to at work! Plus, she's so cool, I look good just standing next to her, so having her with me will surely boost my status there. Plus, I told her if she was cooperative, at lunch, we could go to nearby Claire's, and/or try to catch Tim Gunn at the salad bar at one p.m.

In order to actually get some work done, though, I'm assigning her at least two tasks for tomorrow—one of which is appearing as The Irreverent Family Cookbook's Guest Blogger—and hopefully she can go on a Starbucks run with my boss's rocking assistant, Golden, later in the day. But at some point, there's no way around her checking out the multiple stock photography covers that line the bookshelves, cropped to the edges with "man boob" pictures (her description, not mine), and a bunch of lusty ladies.

Meanwhile, this was all just an excuse for me to say that D.J. was just asked to perform at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, in June. This from the semi-professional dance company she's in, where she's also appearing as Yoko Ono in their end-of-the-year event.