Last Saturday: First wedding of the season. It was held at Wellesley Chapel (
The reception was at the Wellesley Club -- quite posh, with excellent food.
After the wedding, we got together with Tibor and Anna, and Arval and his family for dinner, mostly because Arval was in town and we haven't seen him in an age. Went out to Naked Fish, which was a little dangerous -- they got there and just barely managed to get a table. Dinner was reasonably good, but not spectacular: the food was neither as homey and comfortable as Legal's, nor as just-plain-wonderful as McCormick and Schmick's. We'll probably go again, but it's not looking high on the priority list, especially given the crowds. (I had a Brazilian Fried Calamari, which I actually found a bit less interesting than Legal's Rhode Island Calamari.) The drinks were great, but that isn't what motivates me to go to a restaurant.
Last Monday: Beginning of a quiet week of doing Not Very Much. Which is okay -- I'm a smidgeon tired and burned-out right now, as I often am at this time of year.
Wednesday: Dance practice.
Good dance practice, but I think Mara has cut the teaching back a bit too aggressively -- she's in a serious mode of "Anyone need this taught? Okay, then I'm just going to play it." It looked like this left
Friday: Weekly date was down at The Brewpub (which is how
Saturday: Quiet, tired day. Thought about going to Guindormr's party (a wake for his ex-car), but we just didn't have the energy -- we needed an evening in. So I made dinner (Pan-Seared Trout with Bacon Vinaigrette, a house favorite that is much easier than it sounds), we got a bit of ice cream from Ranc's (I am very amused that they don't even *try* to call themselves Rancatore's any more), and vegged.
Sunday: Spent the core of the day filing videotapes. Those who do not own 1300 videotapes cannot understand how time-consuming this is. I boxed up a couple hundred of the oldest to go to storage, and separated out the ones that we're going to discard. (Now that we're starting to buy some of our favorite series on DVD, there's no point in having them take up space on VHS. So we'll be giving a bunch of recordings away.) Eventually managed to get that bookcase completely beaten into shape, for the first time in a year or two.
In the late afternoon (5-7pm) we went over to Wellesley for a last-minute Felding Tea. This is an annual tradition, and the Feldings decided that it would make a good study break. Due to the slight notice and fairly modest publicity, we were the only non-Feldings to show up (aside from Connor at the end, but he's kind of attached to the Borough right now), but it was a pleasant time, with lots of general schmoozing about Wellesley and classes and what people were going to do with themselves over the summer. I was glad to see that Felding is still in fairly good shape internally (about a dozen people came to the tea); now, we just need to get more of them off-campus a bit more often, and talking to the rest of the Barony.
Today: Took Comet to the vet to get poked at again. He's apparently in good shape, but still losing weight slowly. (A few ounces more over the past month.) We need to figure out how to stabilize that.
Upcoming:
Tuesday: Accademia.
Wednesday: I'm running Dance Practice. I need to remind myself of this about six times a day, so that I remember to bring my equipment.
Thursday: Probably have our weekly date a day early, since she's not available on Friday.
Weekend: