I guess I got used to Sunday night being just another night when wasn't teaching on Mondays during Spring. But now, Sunday night is once again for me, like for most other folks, the last gasp of the weekend before a work week starts in earnest.
The week that starts for me tomorrow is ratcheted up a notch in busy-ness: Week 2 of NSCC is also Week 1 of AUS. There is the saving grace of Tuesday's being the holiday, though.
I will need some grace, because I am worn out after this weekend. Yesterday started with some household work, and then Otis had a session so I left the house. I wandered around on my bike, got the DVD for the outdoor movie, went to the comic book store, stopped by to visit Dingo, pretended to do some school reading, and stuff like that. When I got home there was a short break before Otis and I had to head up to LFP to set up for the show.
If anything, this SOS was an even better success than the original. First of all, I built a bigger, better screen out of PVC pipe and a sheet, so the picture was pretty ginormous. We had the usual grub, including Blood Orange Drink. Attendance was high: Ms. Macha introduced the gang to Mr. Macha, who is recently arrived from Japan; J-Force dragged MaryBee from her sick-bed; Soapy enjoyed himself even though the movie had no explosions or female archers; everyone went after Dingo's melons; Hi-Lai & Welcome Matt and Sailor Sue brought terrible, wonderful chocolate stuff to compete with Otis's cupcakes; Jimmy the K and K-man Junior came for a rest after a day of biking; and even Kris-10 and Rye-N were there, sneaking in late while the ticket-taker wasn't looking.
After a group dance lesson and some other shorts, we settled in for The Wedding Banquet; it was an odd experience actually watching a good movie for a change. Many hands made light the work of cleaning up, and we actually got some late night visiting in afterwards.
That visiting meant a bedtime of about 2:00 am, so today I was tired and my hay fever was acting up. It was a fairly quiet day - Otis had a session and I was doing prep - but tonight we went over to the Zoo for an Indigo Girls concert. It was a mostly pleasant experience - a few crowd-related issues, but the weather and the music couldn't have been finer. Mad props and many thanks to Hi-Lai for the tix!
No more for now - time to hit the hay tonight and the ground running tomorrow.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Saturday, July 01, 2006
And the summer keeps rolling along
Wasn't it a great day yesterday?
We started with brekkies at Whole Foods, which is always fun (and about all we can afford there). Otis was paying a visit to her grandma in the morning, during which I went down to the B-G and made another fast run from Gasworks to Matthews Beach and back (not as fst as JustJon, though). This was cool because we had wound up not riding on Thursday night after all, so I needed to turn some pedals.
After the ride, I picked both ladies up and we went to lunch at Chef Liao's on the Ridge. I do miss me that food, and we try to get back there frequently. We had just enough time for a nice lunch before Otis and I had to shoot down to Pioneer Square to help her brother load his apartment into one of those door-to-door moving crates. Not to bad a task: no stairs and lots of rolling carts, so we got a heck of a lot done in a short time.
That left us a good chunk of the afternoon to wander around in an ultimately fruitless search (even with telemetry from Dingo) for some massage supplies that Otis needed. On the bright sidfe, we did have a nice tour of the city.
Dinner held a pleasant surprise: we wanted to go out someplace air-conditioned and I had been hankering for a good, old-fashioned salad bar, so for a lack of othe roptions we decided to go to Marie Callendar's of all places. It turned out that there soup and salad bar deal was actually pretty good - at least, it hit the spot last night. A little too pricey, though.
We remained in consumer mode after dinner, and got some supplies for the Saturday night SOS and other housleholdy stuff on the way home. (We have added red kitchen curtains to the turquoise - orange - pale purple - deep purple - blue color scheme of the main floor.)
Mostly work today, I think, before the playtime tonight - hope to see ya'll there!
We started with brekkies at Whole Foods, which is always fun (and about all we can afford there). Otis was paying a visit to her grandma in the morning, during which I went down to the B-G and made another fast run from Gasworks to Matthews Beach and back (not as fst as JustJon, though). This was cool because we had wound up not riding on Thursday night after all, so I needed to turn some pedals.
After the ride, I picked both ladies up and we went to lunch at Chef Liao's on the Ridge. I do miss me that food, and we try to get back there frequently. We had just enough time for a nice lunch before Otis and I had to shoot down to Pioneer Square to help her brother load his apartment into one of those door-to-door moving crates. Not to bad a task: no stairs and lots of rolling carts, so we got a heck of a lot done in a short time.
That left us a good chunk of the afternoon to wander around in an ultimately fruitless search (even with telemetry from Dingo) for some massage supplies that Otis needed. On the bright sidfe, we did have a nice tour of the city.
Dinner held a pleasant surprise: we wanted to go out someplace air-conditioned and I had been hankering for a good, old-fashioned salad bar, so for a lack of othe roptions we decided to go to Marie Callendar's of all places. It turned out that there soup and salad bar deal was actually pretty good - at least, it hit the spot last night. A little too pricey, though.
We remained in consumer mode after dinner, and got some supplies for the Saturday night SOS and other housleholdy stuff on the way home. (We have added red kitchen curtains to the turquoise - orange - pale purple - deep purple - blue color scheme of the main floor.)
Mostly work today, I think, before the playtime tonight - hope to see ya'll there!
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