Lectures: People of Color in the Outdoors, March 13th, free.  Not sure how your color effects your outside experience - after all, the rain falls on all of us equally.  Featured speakers discuss love of the outdoors through the prism of race.  *  Also, Pathways has a series of lectures on being a better parent, including Turn it off! (Or not): Is Media Always Bad for Kids, Mindful Parenting, and The Teen Brain: What Parents Need to Know.  No kid smacking in class allowed.   * Also, Hedgebrook has a series of literary change readings for female authors coming up, including Writing from Our Bodies, The Warrior, and Worlding Experiment.

Meetings: Trout Unlimited, March 12th, free, because you look so sexy in hip waders; guest speaker discusses the history of sockeye and kokanee in Lake Washington.  Also, Cartoonists Northwest meets March 15th, $1, those doodlers of the Pacific NW try to convert their talents into paying work.  *  Also, BEAN has a kick-off meeting, of young professionals networking and volunteering.

Party: Chat With Women Listener Party, April 17th, $35. Seattle's two grand dames of the radio are whooping it up, and everyone else is invited. Since they certainly know women, they know how to pamper and how to entertain, and how to make a women feel good, inside and out.

Astronomy: Star Party, May 15th, free. Club members set up the telescopes and the public are invited to come by and peer into the night sky. It's not like seeing those coffee table books of colorful nebulas, but it is interesting knowing that a photon of light took hundreds of millions of years to make the journey to your pupil.

Activity: Rat City Rollergirls, March 22, $20.  Seattle's favorite bad-ass chicks start off their new roller derby season.  How'd you like to have one of these gals for your mother?  Imagine your own mother smacking you down for getting too far out of line.  Anyway, they're the cutest bad-asses here in Seattle.

Musicals: Mamma Mia, March 18 - 23, $20+.  That 80's stuff just won't go under.  Now, you can relive the hits of Sweden's rock export in ABBA form.  It's corny, but fun.  *  Also, Cabaret, starting March 25th, $22+, of 1930's Berlin nightlife, just as those kill-joys in the Third Reich are coming to power.  Four different people then find their lives linked together.

Women's Interest: Plan for Success: Gain Actionable Steps for Achieving Career Goals, March 18th, free.  This isn't some touchy feel-good seminar on providing inspiration to improve your career.  Rather, this meeting details how to translate your inspiration into concrete steps.  Learn the ten steps on creating and executing your career plan.

Senior Activity: A Matter of Balance at the Greenwood Senior Center, starting March 18th, $20.  You're not as spry as you used to be.  If you don't want to fall into to the nursing home, literally, in your old age, then learn how to improve your balance and prevent falls.  If you break those brittle old bones, then you could be done for.

Exercise: Big Climb for Leukemia, March 16th, $35.  This is why God invented elevators.  You get a timed trial climbing the stairs up Seattle's tallest building, the Columbia Tower.  Get done, and you'll be hacking up a lung by the time you hit the top.  Nonetheless, it's a good thing to do, just for a bit of self-satisfaction.

Girly Mysteries:
Here are a few of the many things guys don't comprehend about girl ways.  Like a magician's trick, it's better not to know.
 

Why They Curl Their Eyelashes.  Those little eyelash curlers look painful and dicey.  One slip, and like your mother warned you, you're poking an eye out.  Why do this?

Cotton Ball Usage: Rarely is a dude in a situation where he's saying to himself, "You know, a cotton ball would come in really handy right about now."  Yet, girls buy cotton balls in peat-moss-sized bags and use them for something.

Panty Lines: The concept of wearing an article of clothing so tightly wrapped around the crotch that undie lines pop out is a totally foreign concern to dudes.  Instead of having to worry about this, why don't gals just wear more relaxed fitting pants?

$100 Salon Appointments.  Not that this amount is a mainstay of a gal's hair regimen, but it's no problem for gals to drop the bill of a Costco shopping trip at the hair dresser for some appointments.  For dudes, if the bill is going north of $50, then something is up.

Bathing Suit Trauma.  For dudes, they just head down to the store and pick up a pair of board shorts: go in, go out, and nobody gets hurt.  For gals, there seems to be a lot of emotional angst about buying a bathing suit, possibly even crying.

Static Cling.  No dude ever wears anything where he has to worry about clingy clothes.  What is it that gals are wearing, where they need to spray on some sort of anti-static guard?

Taking Two Days to Pack for Vacation.  A friend of a staffer declined an invitation two days before an overseas trip because she needed to pack.  Dudes can pack for a vacation in two hours.  How can it take two days to organize suitcases?

Maintaining Soft Feet.  Everybody walks on their feet, yet gals seem to have softer feet, and at least they don't smell bad.  For dudes, this is not the most flattering part of the body.

The notion of getting "beach ready."  According to girly standards, apparently, you're supposed to look like you've been to beach before you've been there.  The ingredients seem to include tanning, toning, plucking, accessories, and bathing suits (see above).  For dudes, it's just which board shorts to wear.

Cool Video: Watch this guy wear every T-Shirt he owns, at once.

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