today
Today was the way I want my days to be.
I slept til the reasonable hour of 9, worked on my computer for awhile, then biked down to Society Hill. I spent the whole day helping Bob with paperwork for the next month's buying club orders -- I love working for him, I love working in a beautiful and homey house, and this once-monthly paperwork satisfies my interest in alphabetization and organization and details. In the early evening, after assembling orders at his dropsite, he bought me a beer; we talked about ongoing projects and experiences living in another country.
The only things that would've improved my day would've been a) waking up a tiny bit earlier to make myself tea in the morning, rather than waiting for the maté I brewed in the afternoon, and b) the weather being slightly less frigid, for a more comfortable bike ride.
I went over to Raf & Mali's this evening for dinner. The newly-painted rooms are vibrant and colorful, and the house is becoming more lived-in. Mali stir-fried some vegetables with long-simmered eggplant, sauteed pea shoots and spinach with tofu, mixed up some peanut noodles, and made rice; ross threw together an apple-quince-cranberry cobbler, as I've come to expect from him this winter. gabe and Abram were also there, and there was an amazing ambience of cooking and joking with college friends, comfortable but grown-up past college and witty.
The only thing that would make my evening better would be NOT havingthinking I have to be at the café by 7 am...grr.
I slept til the reasonable hour of 9, worked on my computer for awhile, then biked down to Society Hill. I spent the whole day helping Bob with paperwork for the next month's buying club orders -- I love working for him, I love working in a beautiful and homey house, and this once-monthly paperwork satisfies my interest in alphabetization and organization and details. In the early evening, after assembling orders at his dropsite, he bought me a beer; we talked about ongoing projects and experiences living in another country.
The only things that would've improved my day would've been a) waking up a tiny bit earlier to make myself tea in the morning, rather than waiting for the maté I brewed in the afternoon, and b) the weather being slightly less frigid, for a more comfortable bike ride.
I went over to Raf & Mali's this evening for dinner. The newly-painted rooms are vibrant and colorful, and the house is becoming more lived-in. Mali stir-fried some vegetables with long-simmered eggplant, sauteed pea shoots and spinach with tofu, mixed up some peanut noodles, and made rice; ross threw together an apple-quince-cranberry cobbler, as I've come to expect from him this winter. gabe and Abram were also there, and there was an amazing ambience of cooking and joking with college friends, comfortable but grown-up past college and witty.
The only thing that would make my evening better would be NOT havingthinking I have to be at the café by 7 am...grr.