Andy Lesher and Kristen Stewart celebrated with many Kellogg friends at their June wedding in Vail, Colo.

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We are a hardcore news operation here. Our motto is to check, recheck and triple check the facts and then pretty much ignore the facts and just make something up — hopefully something funny.

Sometimes this is insanely hard — like when people tell me that nothing has happened to them. In fact, I get more nice notes from people telling me nothing than I do requests for dates from mental patients.

There is a limit to a person’s creativity and there are only so many ways you can spin “Hey Ros… Not much going on here. Keep me posted on what’s going on with everyone else.” The uncoated truth: A whole lot of nothing going on.

Anthony Elarth got up, went to work and came home. (Well maybe something happened to him on the way to work? No. Nothing happened.) Adam Koontz has yet to furnish me with any interesting tales. This is really unfair since I furnished him with plenty of material when he was a writer for The Merger. The “e” on Ted Kasten’s keyboard broke. Ted now has to sign his name “Td Kastn.” Nobody has really noticed the difference and it takes less time to write. On Aug. 21 at 2:29 p.m., Euni Kown uttered her first honest to goodness laugh of the day. For the 14 hours prior to that, “not much else was funny.” I hear Siri Eklund makes a mean hamburger from her penthouse deck on the Upper West Side.

Tony Defrancheschi stayed up until 2 a.m. last night reading my last column. It is my opinion that Tony needs some new reading material. If you have read any good books lately, please send your suggestions to Tony ASAP.

Purab Kaur and her husband went on vacation to Seattle and met up with two other Kellogg alums there. They stayed with Mona and Sanjay Puri ’01. Kristin Nelson and her husband, Chris, joined them for dinner at their place. They also bought their first house in Evanston this June.

Chris Massey left Neutrogena with a bang in November (a la “popping a zit”?) and is now between jobs. He uses the vague title “international man of mystery” when traveling to exotic places such as Canada. When not traveling, Chris spends most of his days eating, sleeping, or sitting on hold with the Earthlink DSL technical support line.

	Alejandro de La Tour with 14-month-old Catalina.
	Sherri and Ken Hathaway welcomed Reese Christian Hathaway on April 5.
	"Banana Man" was the life of the party at the Lesher-Stewart wedding.

It has come to my attention that Eduardo Pieta may well be responsible for an international incident popularly known as the “Domino Affair.” Here’s the deal: Things were looking pretty good for Dominik Hrbaty, the unranked and unknown Czech tennis player who beat No. 4 seed Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Round 2 of the U.S. Open. Little did Dominik know what lay in store for him. Eduardo and Frank Ballabio, who were sitting in the second row, decided to root for the underdog and cheer for Dominik since most of the people sitting around them were cheering for his opponent, Belarus-born Max Mirnyi. At first they were fairly innocuous, yelling AFTER every point stuff like “Let’s go Domino!” But then Eduardo (who should serve as lesson in the underestimated impact of misguided sentiment) took things a little too far. Right before a serve that would keep Dominik in the game, Eduardo noticed that Dominik was wearing a lot of Nike clothing and just as he began his serve, Eduardo belts “Just Do It, Domino!” Dominik lost his concentration, botched the point and was eliminated from the tournament. Epilogue: Donimik Hrbaty has had to revert back to a life as an unranked, unknown nobody. Eduardo Pieta is now banned from the U.S. open and Frank Ballabio, through his lawyers, has issued a statement denying that he was even in attendance.

In an unrelated, but equally disturbing event, it has been reported that Manthos Kallios was also at the U.S. Open attempting to teach Eric Goldberg and Jose Luis Villanueva the chicken dance on center court.
Adam Koontz, Mary VanGeffen and Frank Ballabio were just about kicked out of a downtown New York restaurant when a discussion around wearing a sock in certain places during the winter months turned into demonstrations and got a little out of hand, so to speak.

The Boiler Room Gang (Geoff Mattson, Joe Taylor, Dickie Paget, Peter Solomon, Bill Dauphinais and Will Stokes) was in Chicago recently to catch a Cubs game. Melinda and Stacey Lawrence had a little girl Sept. 3 named Sophie Lynne.

Stuart and Eve Watson welcomed Connor Thomas Watson Aug. 13 at 8.2 pounds 21 inches long. While some would say this is their firstborn, wonder cat Thunder and loveable dog Harley would disagree.

On July 4 at 9:39 p.m., in the midst of the Redwood City fireworks show, Luke Andrew Virsik was born to Allison and Peter Virsik. He is 21 inches long and weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces. Both baby and Allison are doing fine — but no one is getting any sleep.

Savir Maskara was born May 11 to proud parents, Zia and Alok Maskara. He was 7.5 pounds, 19 3/4 inches and both the mother and baby are doing well.

Gayatri and Santosh Anoo joined the parenthood team May 27. Their daughter, Medha Santosh Anoo, was born at 5.30 a.m. and weighed 6.5 pounds and was 20 inches long.

Alejandro de La Tour has been feeling a little out of the loop after returning to Argentina. He and his family are now trying to leave again between riots, mobs, political and economic instability and all the stuff you can read in the papers or see on CNN. Life is still pleasant at BCG, with significant travel to Chile and Brazil. He and his family (including their now 14-month-old baby, Catalina) met up with Alfonso Brazzini, Gastón Mooney and families a couple of times. And in case any soccer lovers are worried, the only thing in Argentina that hasn’t changed is the amount people spend on the game!

Sherri and Ken Hathaway welcomed Reese Christian Hathaway on April 5. At 9 pounds 6 ounces and 21 inches, Reese is a healthy baby boy who constantly smiles, even at strangers.

Andy Lesher and Kristin Stewart got married in June out in Vail, Colo. The reception was at an awesome mountain lodge in the back bowls of Vail, and the Kellogg team, with Banana Man in tow, was definitely the life of the party. Robert Lesley in a full seersucker suit doing the butt dance was also a real treat! Guests included Megan Campbell, Jennie Tsai, Jim Kim, Blair Weigle ’02, Judy Lin, Anthony Elarth, Robert Lesley, Beth Conner, Laurie Iannuzzi, Marcie Vu, Andy Fligel, Marni Ungerman ’99, Eric Brown, Ted Kasten, Buzz Calkins, Jason Ruger, Larry Rubin, Adam Koopersmith, Matt Prevost and Liz Kramer. After the wedding, Andy and Kristin had a great honeymoon in Bali and Hong Kong and arrived home at a new house they recently bought in Charlotte. So it looks like it is sweet tea and grits for the long term...

Eric Jedrzejek got married last November to Natascha. Eric is working at Baxter BioScience in strategy and will be moving to Austria for the next 18 months on a supply chain assignment.

Correction: Last issue I failed (through no fault of the bride, groom or other wedding guest) to mention a couple of things about Sandra Michelin and Ryan Ehlert’s wedding. Bonnie Goertzen was in attendance along with her husband and her 1-year-old daughter. Also, Federico Papa was actually a translator of the ceremony — from Portuguese to English. He was great!

Stuff I know but no one sends me details: Francisco Oseres got hitched in Peru sometime in the summer. Alfonso Brazzini has a new baby. Gastón Mooney has a new baby. John Rakowski and Emily Gellady got married. (From what I hear, John had a bachelor party that would even make Emily blush.) Trista Bridges and Mark Bivens got married. Jennifer Gosselin got married. Bridget and Brandon Lower had a baby girl.

Are we done here?

Best,
Rosalind