Weekend Update…late
Hi, our weekend at a glance:
Friday night: P had a linguistics event, a colloquium pot-luck. While working during the day, I made some buttermilk rolls for the event. He also took a syrah from a local vineyard that I won at a raffle earlier that week. I didn’t go to the party because I am a work-a-holic and instead decided to spend my evening in front of the computer. Actually, I was getting heat from the big wigs who pay me and needed to finish up a project. So, I spent the night working and watching fawtly towers. This is my first exposure to fawlty towers. For those who are not familiar with it, it’s a british comedy that features john cleese as a hotel manager/owner, his nagging wife and a watier from bar-the-lona. Very funny, I highly recommend it and you can netflix the whole series. However, I confess a low tolerance level and at times when it is painfully obvious where the plot is going, I must hit pause for a good ten minutes to recover my interest.
Saturday: We got up early and went to the gym and then headed off to San Francisco for an anti-war protest put on by a.n.s.w.e.r. Indeed, it was small, probably under a 1,000 showed up. However, I found it very refreshing to be reminded that there are still people out there who care enough to turn up on a beautiful day to march around the streets. Also, sad though to see so few, especially near the election. I will try to post more on the protests, as it is something that’s been on my mind a lot recently. After the protest, we went to visit P’s family and had a nice dinner. We got home very late and I was exhaaaausted.
Sunday: Got up and went to the local bakery to grab breakfast to eat it on the beach. These past two weekends we’ve gone to Natural Bridges, it’s the closest beach to us. It has amazing waves, interesting succulents covering the sand and a wide variety of big sea birds perched on the big rocks that look like little bridges (hence the name). Also, if you look close enough you can see a seal, and once we saw a dolphin (or shark, not sure). After breakfast, we briefly walked around downtown to let our stomachs settle. I did a bit of shoe shopping, always a challenge, we also checked out the kitchen store and the library before we headed off to the gym. After the gym, we spent the day working. P needed to put the final touches on his talk for berkeley on Monday and I needed to work on my project. I worked until midnight-ish and finally put an e-mail out to the big-wigs asking for more time.
