An big city working girl has got to maintain some level of cultural literacy! I always root for the underdog on principle and was happy to see them win.

During the Superbowl, someone told me that Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite. Is she? I was surprised just to learn she's the daughter of Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh. Although it's possible someone told me that years ago, before I knew who either Tony Curtis or Janet Leigh was.

Instead of going to my company's Bethesda office today, I went to my company's parent company's offices in Calverton, Maryland, for Microsoft Project training. Besides learning a few things about that software, I was edified in other ways; for instance, I may say snide things about Bethesda but it's far, far better than working (or living anywhere near) Calverton. The landscape there is desolate and depressing. Our parent company's office building towers over all the other office buildings, none of which is more than 3 stories tall. It is the only Calverton landmark visible from Interstate 95 and bears a comical resemblance to the robot R2D2 from Star Wars.

We were given an hour for lunch, but at noon we were trapped in the building by a freak 30-minute blizzard. The precipitation was blown horizontally by what appeared to my untrained mid-Atlantic eye to be gale-force winds.

Thus we were forced to eat at the nameless ground-level deli, where two Asian women made our sandwiches and one Asian man rang us up at the cash register, just like Jean's Deli in our office building. Unlike Jean's, the food was terrible. My "big cheese" sandwich on wheat toast was, in actuality, soggy bread with globs of mayonnaise, iceberg lettuce, tasteless Swiss cheese hardening around the edges, and a teaspoon of avocado smeared on the "toast."

When we left at 3:30, the sun was shining, the sky was blue, and all the cars in the parking lot were crusted on one side with a half inch of snow and ice.