in our cd player... old standards We played Sinatra and Ella and even Carole King--- and sang our hearts out on all of them.   on the stage... quirky Ryan Adams who played a great show for 2 hours and 55 minutes but puzzled us with one of the more unusual second encores I may ever hear.   most proud of... our kick-ass map reading skills and finely-honed senses of direction   clad in... first sleeveless shirts... then long wool coats. Welcome to temperamental fall on the East Coast.   anxiously awaiting... Senator Orrin Hatch's performance of a new patriotic song on the Tuesday morning news shows   into... baby pumpkins; apple pie; all-you-dare-to-make bloody mary bar; Crum's Towne Restaurant in tiny Woodsboro, MD; card catalogs; coconut cornbread; paratroopers, sbarro, and babies; multi-tasking lipstick; chocolate chai lattes with liqueur; meeting boys on trains; elusive pumpkin beer; midnight monument tours; Lomo Super Sampler camera   definitely not into... green shirts; mosquitos; cheater paths