Getting Back to September
I've been trying to get caught up on writing here, but I seem to have misplaced my attention span. I finally decided it was best to just write what I could and if that means a slow and not terribly interesting catch-up, so be it.
I've been trying to get caught up on writing here, but I seem to have misplaced my attention span. I finally decided it was best to just write what I could and if that means a slow and not terribly interesting catch-up, so be it.
I played board games (over zoom) with friends at least once. Probably more than once, but I lost track of things.My other standing meetings include my needlework group (over zoom, every other week), my monthly Lithuanian Jewish genealogy mentoring meeting, my Crones and Tomes book club, some planning activities for the Women’s Storytelling Festival, and my Brothers Grimm discussion group, which can mostly be summed up “what a weird story.”
Because our birthdays are only a few days apart (and a few years), Cindy and I have gotten into the habit of going out to dinner to celebrate them. We’ve pretty much settled on going to Elephant Jumps, which is a very good Thai restaurant in Falls Church. There’s some value in having our rituals.
As far as entertainment goes, I already mentioned the movie My Penguin Friend. I also went to Signature Theatre to see the musical Soft Power. This is a very complex show, which is based on a real incident in which David Henry Hwang was attacked on the street. It also goes into Hillary Clinton’s electoral loss and U.S. relations with China more broadly. It was both funny and provocative and definitely worth seeing.
And that's pretty much all I did in September.