Jana tagged me via email to write my top 5 things, so here goes!
1. I can cook.
Unbeknownst to my husband, relatives, friends, and colleagues, I actually have the ability to cook. My brother and I used to cook up a storm when we were little kids growing up in our cramped apartment in Athens. We […]

Scott and I made the very wise decision to go to Michael Mina for dinner before seeing the “O” Cirque Du Soleil show at the Bellagio. Scott went all out with his trio choices. He started with the trio of prosciutto, then the trio of japanese snapper, then we shared the trio of chocolate! I […]

This Thursday I head to Las Vegas for the ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit 2007, hoorah! My poster presentation proposal was accepted so I am now packing my bags for my first trip to Vegas!
IA Summit 2007: Poster Presentation by Anna M. Simmons (pdf)
Handout (pdf)

My poster focuses on “the race for swift customer testing” in the […]

big fish in providence

We went to “Big Fish” for dinner last Sat in Providence, RI. Wow, this place’s interior is like a designer’s dream, cool funky bathrooms with flatscreens playing animated movies, funky seaweed light fixtures, gigantic fish mural with 2-D frame, wait, need to talk food now! I got the 1.25 pound boiled lobster […]

This place was a very very nice surprise! We were hungry, it was 6:15pm on a Sat, and all the OPs were out and about. The valet parking guy said the wait was 30-45 min at the StoneForge in Foxboro, but when we got inside we were told 1 hr, 20 min. We grudgingly decided […]

Cerveceria Catalan
This was our very first tapas experience in barcelona and we LOVED it. The Pescaditos Fritos were excellent, loved the tortilla con potate, chantrelle mushrooms were a big hit with Scott, fried baby squid, cod with cream sauce, tostada ciabatta con tomate, etc

This is where Scott and I would like to be right now. Cruising on a boat heading to St. John’s Caneel Bay!

Scott and I are taking a “babymoon” to Spain the first 11 days of Jan 2007! yay!! I am very excited about this trip for a couple of reasons. One is I have always wanted to go to Spain and almost went in 1995 but went to grad school instead. Then anytime Spain came up […]

Scott and I are contemplating going to Barcelona, Spain at the end of Dec for 6-7 nights. Would be nice to get those free tickets with all our miles from Delta + Air France, lets see! If possible, the plan is to be there for New Year’s Eve 2007! Ha ha!. Here are some interesting […]

Hi folks. I know this isn’t travel or dining related, but this company funds all my fun trips and eating expeditions for the most part, so I thought I’d share this with you. My team and I just launched innovation.intuit.com — a web site platform for Intuit’s innovative add-ins and plug-ins for everyone, and its […]