Short Weekends
"Long weekends" are misnomers. I've never met a weekend that wasn't too short. There's just too much fun to be had and sun to enjoy. My Resident Monkey and I were aiming for several days of lounging on the couch, loafing around the various waterfront parks and dog runs, catching a movie. Such a lounge-y pace was an alternate a reality as our pets cooking us dinner or Tamu refusing dinner.
We had fun tho.. runs to hardware stores, cooking dinner for 10 people over 2 days, a furniture sample sale, a most excellent mint chocolate chip ice-cream cone from Ben and Jerry's, a tasty seafood dinner on the wharf, 2 brunches with friends and family, a joyous realization that the butcher on the next block carries Filipino sweet meats, a visit to the Carijama Carribean festival down the street, 40 chocolate covered strawberries--courtesy of Pam, an early morning run to the airport to send off a friend to Kansas City, a neighborhood BBQ, and a partridge in a pear tree! Phew. I have to figure out how to manage my time to see folks here, be in touch with peoples on the other coast, read, chill, spin, learn more photo stuffs...Doh, and I have to squeeze in 40 hrs at work somehow.
Speaking of work, we're preparing for a regional roundtable discussion/strategy thang on language access issues tomorrow. I've been writing materials and muscle memory is kicking in to make labels for folders, check on butcher paper and marker supplies, lunch orders...