Pleasant exhaustion

Another “what I did on my hol­i­days” post. 

I’ve had quite a week. During the days, I’ve been work­ing on my thesis and mark­ing stu­dent assign­ments. During the even­ings, I’ve been swan­ning around with a dash­ing young bar­ris­ter. Lots of fun.

Friday night I caught up with hawk_eye and matoko and then went to Zan­zibar upstairs to meet Justine, had a great chat, as usual ran­ging over a vari­ety of topics. The shock of the night was a dis­cus­sion about shared Jewish her­it­age. I’d never really con­sidered Justine Jewish… she wasn’t brought up Jewish and when we were teen­agers, it never really came up. Anyhow, she recently went to a com­munal seder, and it brought up a lot of stuff. So, my first girl­friend was a good Jewish girl after all. Sorry, raven_, you’re no longer my only Jewish ex.

Then back to turtlesnake’s place for sleep­ing with some chat­ting thrown in.

Sat­urday morn­ing all headed to Cinque for eggs bene­dict, met up with hawk_eye and matoko again, were joined by sophro­nia, every­body and their dog called to ask where I was and before I knew it I was hold­ing court. It was really good. Dean and Naomi dropped in, and predat0r and Mark Pesce had con­ver­sa­tions about pro­teins and inform­a­tion and DNA that were a few stra­to­spheres over my head but was fas­cin­at­ing. Mark also kindly read/skimmed my thesis draft and made com­ments for which I am intensely grate­ful. Then pred and I went off to Glebe mar­kets where I bumped into Roger, Sharon and Mim and then went to have coffee with msser­valan, tim­ling and rob. That was inter­est­ing because apart from the neat con­ver­sa­tion about how we could wrap per­formers in blue rope and chro­makey them so they were wear­ing fire rope, it was the first time I’ve been at a table with two trios.Having been part of a trio in the past myself, it felt very nat­ural to have these two rela­tion­ships there. A glimpse into a dif­fer­ent world.

Back to Naom­i’s for the most amaz­ing home cooked quiche ever and then more fun. Today was my grand­father’s 90th and my grand­par­ents’ 65th wed­ding anniversary. Very quiet by comparison.

Back in Mel­bourne tomor­row. 3000 thank yous to hermia8 and thun­der­chylde for look­ing after Jezebel.