Weekend Update
This weekend:
Friday: I was supposed to go on a journey to Stockton, CA and that was canceled so instead I spent the day doing something rare…relaxing. So nice. P worked all day and then we spent the evening making dozens of pizzelles to bring to P’s sister’s house to say goodbye to P’s brother who was leaving to travel the globe (or at least part of it). The bad news is that the plans fell through and we were unable to see P’s brother off. The good news is that I now have enough pizzelles to last me the rest of the month. We just got the pizzelle maker and I am pleased to say it is a fantastic device. The rest of Friday night was spent watching Antonia’s Line, a dutch film that won the Academy Award for best foreign language film in 1995. I found the film somewhat dull unfortunately. The movie’s theme seemed to be basically that we all have sex and should therefore all get along…and that all men are idiots. The movie did have a beautiful country setting (in the netherlands) but I don’t believe that is enough to see the movie alone.
Saturday: Our file cabinet was delivered. For those of you who are not privy to the file cabinet story, we’ve been waiting for this file cabinet since September 14th. I believe P will vent in another post about it but if any local santa cruzians are reading this, don’t shop at Sweets in the Nude (not a porn shop as it sounds, only an unfinished furniture store). Despite the wait, the file cabinet (handmade out of alder) is very beautiful as expected and I am looking forward to staining it and using it. Then, we went to the gym. We came home very tired and watched Rififi. It is a French black and white from 1955 (I think that’s the right date) that was about a jewelry store heist. It’s very Ocean’s 11, but better. IMDB says that Al Pacino is staring in a new version of Rififi due to come out in 2007. I would recommend the movie but I can’t because of the offensive roles it had its female actresses playing and gratuitous violence against women. After the movie, a quick dinner and then we headed off to see a hindustani classical music concert at UCSC. The concert featured Tripti Mukherjee with the tabla and harmonium. This is the first time I have been to an Indian classical music concert and thought it was incredibly beautiful and relaxing. The time flew by and I look forward to attending another one in the future.
Sunday: Went to the gym close to P’s sister’s house in Palo Alto. Had a short visit with P’s sister and then did some errands on the way home. We became REI members. We did not realize REI is still a co-op, pretty awesome (although, sounds too good to be true). We purchased some new toys for Hobbes and he spent part of the afternoon chasing them around. I cooked dinner, P worked on a grant proposal. I moaned about losing my second book this week. (If anyone finds either a copy of Rousseau’s confessions or Proust’s volume I lying around, please let me know) Instead, I read a short story in the Lemon Table by Julian Barnes (one of P’s favorites), quite lovely. I also wrote a nasty e-mail to Vernon Robinson, a candidate for congress in North Carolina. If you feel like getting very angry, google him and watch the television ads he has on his web-site. They amount to him accusing the immigrant population of stealing jobs, creating bi-lingual programs that steal jobs and wanting to burn american flags. Hopefully, he will lose on Tuesday.
