Jazz Fest

Finally finding a moment to poke my head back up and post to my blog. For the last few months my life has taken on some sort of normalcy (or as normal as it can be in New Orleans these days). I work, I go out, I walk in the park, I shop, I decorate my apartment, I spend time goofing around on the internet - in short, the adventuress has slowed down a bit. Things at work are going really well, and my organization is growing. Making friends and finding the cool nightspots. Dating.

The biggest event lately was Jazz Fest, which is 6 days of music and parties and food and sun and crowds. Mom came out for a visit and got to check out my neighborhood. We ate beignets, of course, at Cafe du Monde :)

We saw Dr. John, Van Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis (the Killer!), the Mardi Gras Indians, Calexico, Charmaine Neville, Bonnie Raitt, Jill Scott and lots of gospel, jazz, zydeco and folk the first weekend alone. The next weekend I saw John Legend, John Mayer, the Allman Brothers, Galactic, and Harry Connick, Jr.

On the menu at the festival was crawfish beignets, fried green tomatoes, crawfish monica (pasta!), fried chicken, sno-balls, spinach artichoke casserole, fried eggplant with crawfish sauce, mango freeze, crawfish pie, fried crab cake w/smoked tomato & jalapeño tartar, crawfish sack, and oyster patties - oh man, oh man, oh man!!!

Summer's upon us, and I'm planning trips for the next few months... time for a real vacation...