It's practically summer here! Seriously, we're expecting a high in the 80s today. I can live with that. I have thrown open all the windows and am letting the breezes blow and the sun shine in. I might even make some iced tea ( Read more... )

It's been lovely.

Friday night was a second Friday, which means Open Studio night at the Fine Arts Building. Every month, different artists have open houses, and Hodge the Bookstore Cat

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On Saturday, I went to my AAUW meeting. We had invited some young women who have been recipients of AAUW fellowships, some from other countries, some from the U.S., and asked them to talk about their research. What an interesting, intelligent group the were, and such interesting and valuable projects! One is working on islet cell transplants, ( Read more... )

Yes, I've had a lot of champagne this evening. I went up to my friend Margaret's house for the monthly dinner of my women's group. Julie can only drink champagne since her various treatments, so we had a bunch of that on top of whatever else (Barbera d'alba, in my case). Margaret made her usual ham, and we had scalloped potatoes, and an ( Read more... )

What absolutely gorgeous weather we had this weekend! Just the sort to make you want to go out even if you had nothing in particular to do, simply to enjoy it ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's nearly two weeks since I've posted here! So, what's been going on ( Read more... )

There's a guy on LibraryThing who is a conspiracy theorist, and he's posted on a couple of the loonier groups about an anti-Obama video we're all supposed to watch. I looked at his profile. He has 666 books catalogued. Coincidence? [Cue eerie music] (I was going to comment thus on one of those threads, but I figure he probably has no sense ( Read more... )

A while back, Bookcrosser Kate Kintail posted about the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference (http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/5/6018758). I was tempted, and I fell. Saturday morning, I went down to the Hilton. Oh, my! There were several hundred ( Read more... )

Gosh, it's been a while since I've updated with actual life events! (Memes and political rants don't count.)

The day after the Inauguration, I had dinner with friends and we went to see Desire Under the Elms at the Goodman Theatre, part of their O'Neill festival, and yet another in the Brian Dennehy/Robert Falls collaboration. Although the ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, I am going to the annual Christmas dinner with my XYZ group, so this morning I made the sweet potatoes that I am bringing (we'll reheat them at Julie's), and wrapped presents (with "help" from the cats). We didn't have our monthly meeting in November, so I'm bringing Peggy's birthday present as well. I've had it (well, them) sitting in ( Read more... )