Busy boy

So, it's been a busy couple o' days. Friday, I was at campus almost all day, first for the convocation (big rah-rah meeting with the entire campus community) and then doing some prep work with colleagues. I got home to a spate of phone messages, among them Johnbai and Yojimbo wanting to hook up for some recreation. So, after a flurry of fussiness, there was a dinner at Jack's Tapas Cafe Mainly Chinese with me, Otis, Johnbai, O, and Yojimbo. Good grub and lots of it! Afterwards, we moved the moveable feast to 3PBR, from which venue you saw pictures last night, and were joined by Dingo and Wheylona. We were loud and festive and closed the joint. Coolishness.

Despite all that festivatin', I was up early as usual and fiddling around in the morning while Otis had a client. When she was done, we took off for a day of erranding, which included visits to Half-Price Books (selling, not buying), Office Max, the Mac Store, PetSmart, Waking Life Massage Supply, Zanadu, and so on. In the middle of all this, we had a great lunch at Chaco Canyon Organic Cafe, a cool place that has lots of vegetarian and vegan dishes and raw food, and smoothies and juices, too. Check it out.

We came home and watched Something to Talk About during dinner. Johnbai had characterized this Julia Roberts - Dennis Quaid flick as an "unmemorable mainstream nineties dramedy" when he read the Netflix summary; it actually turned out to be a little more complex and engaging than that, and didn't quite have a Hollywood ending. A little eye-em-dee-beeing revealed that it was written by Callie Khouri (Thelma and Louise ) and directed by Lasse Hallstrom (Chocolat, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, and My Life as a Dog). What was disappointing was that Bonnie Raitt does not appear on the soundtrack.

We also did some grocery shopping but otherwise have hunkered down tonight, foregoing both the Cal & Merry movie-show and the NY-Alex usher-corps duty at the Sez You taping for mode solitary pleasures. Like this:



(Look back up to that list of errands and you'll see the Mac Store in there. You knew that had to mean trouble, didn't you?)