Thursday was a three-ring circus of good things–
but today, Friday, has been a two-ring anti-circus–
my dog, with a bladder infection, is puddling everywhere, and
the right side of my face is still sulking from an hour of dentist drilling.
And for a third bad thing, one of my favorite bloggers Dave Winer is driving through the wild, wild, wireless-less west and hardly posting anything these days.
Hmmmmph.
But Thursday was great.
First, I had a chance to meet the actual Elaine of Kalilily, who was visiting her grandson. For me, one of the newest bloggers on the block, it was an incredible learning experience–and yet so much more fun than most real-life learning experiences. (Benjamin Franklin said, “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”) Hope you had a safe and peaceful trip home, Elaine, and come back to Boston soon.
Second, I raced from my lunch with Elaine to see two old friends (compared to me, two very young friends) bringing home their first baby. In NH, where I come from, people show up with soup or a cake or a casserole wrapped in tinfoil if neighbors have babies or broken toes or whatever. But I’m not in NH any more–I’m in thrilling Cambridge, the first big city I ever have lived in. So instead of slaving over a kettle, I had lots of fun options to find good things for a care package, including a tiny $4 bottle of champagne and a lemon meringue pie just big enough for two people.
The baby is named Jonas, and he is very beautiful and tiny, swaddled in pale soft blankets much more expertly than my babies ever were. (At dinner last night, another young husband told me the secret–husbands now learn how to swaddle babies in childbirth classes–he practiced on a doll to refine his technique. Wow.)
And the third cool thing yesterday was the lecture on Escher I blogged about Feb. 20–wonderful, you really should check out the incredible animations online of Escher’s tricks.