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The Saturday after Thanksgiving...
Nov. 30th, 2002 02:02 pm...and we're getting ready for another feast. It just turned out that way.
This one is at our house. We plan to have Lee, Drew, Huntur, and a couple of our friends over for dinner. Shannon has a cousin visiting, so she probably won't make it.
The turkey is in the oven. I've made tabouleh, which is slowly rehydrating itself in the fridge. I'm boiling pasta for pasta salad. The borshch Galina and I made last night is still on the stove. I'm sure I'll think of some other goodies between now and 4:30.
We're going to have to leave around 4 am in order to make Albuquerque in time for Lee's plane. As I understand the plan, Galina, Lee and I will be going, so that Galina and I can hit some stores on the way home. In any event, 4 am is a scant 14 hours or so from now. Lee's visit didn't seem anywhere near long enough, but it was good to see her.
Last night, she and I watched a movie with no violence, no chase sequences, and no gratuitously exuberant explosions. The main characters expressed their mutual affection in ways other than lustily jumping on each others' bones, and people of deep religious belief were depicted as decent folk. The plot was a bit contrived and corny, but the story moved me, and I was interested in finding out what was going to happen to the couple at the center of the story, even if I knew, deep down inside, that the story was going to have a happy ending.
The film was Return to Me, starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. Besides all the good things noted above, I was also able to disregard Duchovny's "Mulder" legacy. (I think of it as a second-stage of "suspension of disbelief." In Duchovny's case, I consider it successful if I can stop thinking of him as Fox Mulder. :^)
Time to tend to the pasta.
Cheers...
This one is at our house. We plan to have Lee, Drew, Huntur, and a couple of our friends over for dinner. Shannon has a cousin visiting, so she probably won't make it.
The turkey is in the oven. I've made tabouleh, which is slowly rehydrating itself in the fridge. I'm boiling pasta for pasta salad. The borshch Galina and I made last night is still on the stove. I'm sure I'll think of some other goodies between now and 4:30.
We're going to have to leave around 4 am in order to make Albuquerque in time for Lee's plane. As I understand the plan, Galina, Lee and I will be going, so that Galina and I can hit some stores on the way home. In any event, 4 am is a scant 14 hours or so from now. Lee's visit didn't seem anywhere near long enough, but it was good to see her.
Last night, she and I watched a movie with no violence, no chase sequences, and no gratuitously exuberant explosions. The main characters expressed their mutual affection in ways other than lustily jumping on each others' bones, and people of deep religious belief were depicted as decent folk. The plot was a bit contrived and corny, but the story moved me, and I was interested in finding out what was going to happen to the couple at the center of the story, even if I knew, deep down inside, that the story was going to have a happy ending.
The film was Return to Me, starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. Besides all the good things noted above, I was also able to disregard Duchovny's "Mulder" legacy. (I think of it as a second-stage of "suspension of disbelief." In Duchovny's case, I consider it successful if I can stop thinking of him as Fox Mulder. :^)
Time to tend to the pasta.
Cheers...
