Where did this wool brain sweater come from? It has Media magazine's "The Future of Media" Issue Release party sewn into the tag, thank you very much. Last night I covered two parties. One was MediaPost's aforementioned fete with a who's who of young PR, sharp-witted media types, legendary publishers, and a certain fellow who was once immortalized in Guns-N-Roses lyrics back in his SPIN days, and the second was a party celebrating the launch of Heidi Klum's virtual Jordache line for Stardoll. One was awesome. One was awful. Let's start with the first, which was awfully awesome.

Every time I hear the word "boat" I think of my dad and our old boat on Lake St Clair in Michigan. He would obnoxiously sing the Banana Boat jingle "Get on de boat [Yeah!] the Banana Boat [Yea-AH!]" before boarding. I laughed at him until I turned 15 and my gangly girl rage just wanted to throw him overboard. I heard that ridiculous jingle as I approached The World Yacht. That and the sound of my own heart racing in my head as I ran, confident I was about to miss the boat.

What did you do on your Sunday? Did you hang out with some pals, watching eight different football games? Did you cook for the week (believe it or not, in my more organized past life I did that every Sunday!) Did you try to get your Advertising Week calendar all squared away? Maybe you were perfecting your couch potato lean. While you were up to no good, I was hanging out at the place to be on Sunday nights: the United Nations.

September. It's not supposed to be 90 degrees in September. Gets me thinking about the pool. How, even though we're smacked with a couple of really sloppy hot days, the pool in my parents' backyard is still getting gradually colder, making the "ooch, ahcch, eech, ooch" slow-body-part-lowering-dance longer and harder to get through. I haven't covered a party in our industry in, oh, two weeks? And let me tell you, acclimating myself into this pool might be harder than I thought. So, I eased into it rods and cones first, at the ADC Young Guns Final Fifty opening party.