Katy Breezes Through DC

San Francisco Guests originally uploaded by Samer Farha.

Miss Katy was in town, and we were unable to attend, sadly. Besides the fun of seeing her and having a relaxed drink with friends we see all-too infrequently we would have wanted to ask what the story is behind those ginormous pearls. Really, are those from the Wilma Flintstone collection?

Word is that the newly-restored Reuters employee was on her way to the OBX for a little R&R, although we don't hear much of people going there for the summer. (note to self: search the interwebs to find out where I can get one of those extremely rare bumper OBX stickers).

Samer got this candid, which enabled peepsNet to have two sequential posts with Katy sitting at a table in a restaurant -- hey, that's almost enough to start a flickr group!

We don't know who that good-looking guy at Katy's elbow is, because, while Samer is a passable photographer he is a terrible reporter. This is why you haven't received dime-one in peepsNet stringer fees yet, dude.

West Coast Peeps Convention

Dinner at NOPA was fantastic. Lots of "remember when" stuff. Fortunately it was dark inside this fascist eatery best known for a $12 burger so nobody could see peepsNet cry. Even if, we'd blame the gin. Or even the memory of the absinthe.

Katy seemed remarkably unaffected by her return to the Baron's fold. Everything is better in San Francisco, I guess.

Nicole doesn't like photographers. Or at least a guy with an iPhone in her face. Funny tude from someone who was bitten by the shutter bug (niiiiiice) recently.

Live and let live, baby!

Katy Moves On

After turning in some fine work at MarketWatch, Katy is moving on.

She starts at Thompson in three weeks. Hey -- doesn't that mean she'll be working at Reuters again?

peepsNet Summit Report

dear lord -- what is wrong with this picture?!

Well, the first West Coast peepsNet summit went off with no surprises: Samer arrived cranky and the women spent a lot of time texting friends during the meal.

Some tidbits: Apparently Samer has taken to referring to himself in the third person or as "the doctor."

peepsNet has no idea what the menu was, but in the course of the evening we suggested from afar, based on reports from the venue, that perhaps Samer's sugar was low and that the cupcake course should be expedited.

Samer Kicks Back

Samer's trip to SF in Nov. '04

Samer is heading out to San Francisco for a few days, where he will meet up with two other peeps -- Nicole and Miss Katy.

Samer intends to visit at least a dozen pals (including the two peeps). We hear a lovely dinner at the tres chic Slanted Door is in the offing, and that Miette cupcakes (whatever the hell they are) will be suggested apres diner. This might present a logistical problem since the bakery closes at 6 p.m., when the three will still just be working on getting drunk.

Follow the Money

Here at peepsNet we love writing and writers and people who love writing. Add in politics, green and greed and we are yours.

We are also thrilled when a peep finds her voice after moving cheese for so many years.

So for a good read on California prop 87, the initiative that would impose a new tax on oil production in the state to fund a range of alternative energy programs, look no further than Katy Hunt's MarketWatch thumbsucker.

This is far from Miss Katy's first MW byline -- she get them pretty regular. Subscribe to her stories here. We hope she is not peturbed that peepsNet has covered a certain other San Francisco writer more thoroughly. Let's just say that other person has a better press agent.

Girls night In

artist's rendition of nicole and katy's dinner.
no, as a matter of fact this looks nothing like the peepsNet masthead picture

We've started to scrape the barrel already, so I'm documenting Nicole and Katy's Sunday evening dinner only to show off my superb Photoshop skills, since they didn't even take one stinking picture.

For the record, Sunday night's fare included:

1. homemade hummus
2. salmon
3. roasted tomato and red pepper soup
4. spinach fettucine pasta
5. salad
6. chocolate cake

There were equal parts wine and urbane chatter about work, Ireland, Greece, and San Francisco. I doubt this even makes the cut at cucinanicolina.

And they took no pictures, like I said, so you will just have to imagine the wild scene, which I have tried to conjure to the best of my humble abilities.

Miss Katy

Mike (L) and Katy (R). No relevance here (imagine the odds) -- I just love this shot. And the picture on "Second City Mike" isn't really Mike, so I felt he was being kinda cheated, you know?

peepsNet is going to have to find out what's happnin' with the first of the "Just Say No to Toronto" alum to re-enter decent society, who found work in San Francisco so fast it made us all wonder if she really was just a mole for MarketWatch the whole time, stealing our trade secrets.

That's right, that's right -- we had trade secrets.

peepsNet has been extremely remiss about keeping up with Miss Katy, and although our staff has heard many details of the single girl's life in the big city our code of conduct forbids us from printing hearsay, rumor or innuendo unless it is really, really cool stuff.