UVA Alumni Events

Helen brought these two alumni events to my attention, sponsored by the University of Virginia Club of Washington. I'm not a member yet, but I'll check out the events out to see how they go (although I'm sure they will be fun) :)

ACC Tournament Party with Smashmouth on Wednesday 9 March. The party is at Dream, but you need advance tickets (in limited supply, so sign up now if you want to go). DC Mayor Tony Williams will be there to celebrate the ACC Tournament taking place here in DC at the MCI Center. It's too bad that UVA is at the freakin' bottom of the conference right now ::lowers head in shame:: My Virginia Tech coworkers are having a field day with me with both football and basketball seasons. Anyway, UVA (11) plays Miami (6) on Thursday 10 March at 7pm on ESPN.

Pi(e) Party at Murky Coffee (formerly Common Grounds) on Monday 14 March (Pi day, you know 3.14). In Sunday's Washington Post they had an article on pavlova, an awesome dessert from New Zealand that I tried when I was vacationing there. It's a pie shell made of meringue topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit. I'm craving it already. It's technically not a pie, but I might try to pass it off as one if I can find a place that carries it. I'll learn to make it one day (a recipe was included in the article), but since it involves meringue and I don't have a KitchenAid mixer, it might get a little challenging. Yeah, yeah, I have a whisk, but I don't have a copper mixing bowl, which I think you need for the egg whites to fluff up better.