You presence is needed: Where will you be Saturday June 14th? If you don’t know its time to make plans to be in Seattle. We are having a joint birthday/MFA completion party for Mandy and me. I think both Mandy and I would prefer to not be the center of attention so with this plan we can both say the party is really for the other person. Let us know – it’s only a few weeks away.
Capitol Club frat party? So last week was the first nice Friday of the year and we tried to get out on the deck but there was a line of 14 people well before 5. Mandy noted that it looked a bit like the group should be at a frat/sorority party, not on Capitol Hill. They filled the outside so we went to 611. As we were leaving we ran into Terry and Rebbecca (Ann’s friends that you know) going to 611. Terry noted that stopped going to the Capitol Club. “It’s become a little frat party over there”, he said.
Then I get an email on Monday from a mother of a former student asking about the Capitol Club because she has thought about going and wanted to know if I knew the place.
So now we have frat boys, sorority girls and suburbanites. What's next, Republicans?!
What else? That’s about all I can think of. Other conversation has been somewhat sad, and/or serious and/or too personal to put up on the web. You’ll just have to get back here.
Question Answered: Do we watch the Kentucky Derby? No way, we only drink the appropriate cocktail for that weekend.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Babies, Babies Everywhere
Attendance: Robin and I
Drinks: Mint Julep (for the Kentucky Derby) for me, A Southside (another mint drink) for Robin
Well, last week Wendy and Mandy were involved with Opening Day boat stuff so they did not come out on Friday. Robin and I did venture to the 611 and spent an hour talking with Matt the bartender. We mostly got updates on his new married life (happy but trying to adjust to wife’s messiness and generally scattered nature) and a baby update. He is dreading the baby shower but is otherwise as ready as can be expected.
In other baby news:
We had Sean and Matt over for dinner last Saturday and they have a baby on the way too! Assuming all goes as expected they will be bringing the little one home from Oregon in October. (The deliver is in Oregon because of adoption laws that allow them to adopt as the sole parents before delivery.) They do not yet know the sex or if it is Sean or Matt’s the biological dad.
To go with the new kid they now have new home in Leshi near grandpa and grandma (Sean’s parents). It is a huge place, new construction with a lake view. They have lesbian neighbors – but, they joked, they like them anyway.
The menu included roast peppers, fried zucchini, eggplant rolotini, grilled halibut, seasoned mango, asparagus-fennel-arugula salad and a new Robin chocolate dessert.
(I am having a hard time proof reading as I listen to another Obama speach that I find inspiring.)
Answers: 1. Angelo is 18 2. yes, we are adorable 3. the class folks have yet to break into adolescent private part jokes, but when they do I am ready:
" Let all your crew pull strong, come what will.
There's hogsheads of sperm ahead, Mr. Stubb, and that's what ye came for. (Pull, my boys!) Sperm, sperm's the play! This at least is duty; duty and profit hand in hand!"
Drinks: Mint Julep (for the Kentucky Derby) for me, A Southside (another mint drink) for Robin
Well, last week Wendy and Mandy were involved with Opening Day boat stuff so they did not come out on Friday. Robin and I did venture to the 611 and spent an hour talking with Matt the bartender. We mostly got updates on his new married life (happy but trying to adjust to wife’s messiness and generally scattered nature) and a baby update. He is dreading the baby shower but is otherwise as ready as can be expected.
In other baby news:
We had Sean and Matt over for dinner last Saturday and they have a baby on the way too! Assuming all goes as expected they will be bringing the little one home from Oregon in October. (The deliver is in Oregon because of adoption laws that allow them to adopt as the sole parents before delivery.) They do not yet know the sex or if it is Sean or Matt’s the biological dad.
To go with the new kid they now have new home in Leshi near grandpa and grandma (Sean’s parents). It is a huge place, new construction with a lake view. They have lesbian neighbors – but, they joked, they like them anyway.
The menu included roast peppers, fried zucchini, eggplant rolotini, grilled halibut, seasoned mango, asparagus-fennel-arugula salad and a new Robin chocolate dessert.
(I am having a hard time proof reading as I listen to another Obama speach that I find inspiring.)
Answers: 1. Angelo is 18 2. yes, we are adorable 3. the class folks have yet to break into adolescent private part jokes, but when they do I am ready:
" Let all your crew pull strong, come what will.
There's hogsheads of sperm ahead, Mr. Stubb, and that's what ye came for. (Pull, my boys!) Sperm, sperm's the play! This at least is duty; duty and profit hand in hand!"
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