Last Weekend
Apr. 23rd, 2003 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeI flew home Good Friday and promptly napped for 4 hours. In fact I did a lot of sleeping last weekend but not enough, as I'm still catching up. (The showcase is kicking my ass currently--we open next week and I'm still working on a lot of my stuff. I did have a breakthrough last night with my Miranda monologue though so I feel good about that.) Saturday I drove Mom to work and then tried to get back to sleep, unsuccessfully. Finally I got up, showered, and went to a cute little family-run coffee shop in Falls Church called, appropriately, Caffeine. Very appropriately, as it turned out--they must have snuck in a couple of extra shots into my dulce de leche frozen thingie. I felt like I'd been clobbered by a box of No-Doz.
Anyway, I met with Cami at the Fairfax Museum, where she works. We chatted for a couple of hours, a lot about what I'm doing and how we're both planning websites. The museum is in the City of Fairfax, which is older and nicer than the general County of Fairfax. The City is actually quite historical and has some lovely houses and structures, as well as a few alluring Confederate tales. I have to say, I was struck anew at how beautiful Virginia is this time of year. Flowering dogwoods with their folksy connection to the True Cross, redbuds in their startling purple glory, white petals flutteringflutteringfluttering down everywhere, on your car, in your hair, on your steps. It's such an organic manifestation of abstract concepts like Easter and rebirth and new life.
Saturday night after his show Ryan came over and we went out to TGIFriday's where I was disappointed to see they have stopped making the 9-Layer Dip. That was my favorite item on the menu! :( Ryan asked after Duncan, Jason and Paula--he wanted to know about Sleeping in Tomorrow and when Jason and Paula were getting married. He's very good about that sort of thing. I myself have to kick myself to remind me of some social pleasantries, especially when I'm meetng a very close friend.
Sunday morning Mom and I went to church, at St. Mary's in Arlington. We saw Mrs. Austin there (I went to college with her daughter, Patricia--in fact, Patricia was one of the Kit Kat girls in Cabaret with me) and spotted a few others but didn't really linger. I was a bit...unsettled by the fact that there were very few other women wearing a sleeveless top, as I was. It's Virginia, Clara. People dress differently down there. Bows and pastel suits are perfectly acceptable. Sleeveless slinky black tops, maybe not so much. Although at least I wasn't wearing the hoochiemama short skirts I saw on a couple of teenagers. Ah yes, the true meaning of Christian fellowship--critiquing what everyone else is wearing.
Afterward, Mom and I did the brunch thing at home where she got to show off her omelet skills in her new kitchen. We had quite the gourmet brunch--bellinis, orange sticky rolls, and omelets with salmon cream cheese and caviar. My God. Words can't describe the deliciousness.
Anyway, I met with Cami at the Fairfax Museum, where she works. We chatted for a couple of hours, a lot about what I'm doing and how we're both planning websites. The museum is in the City of Fairfax, which is older and nicer than the general County of Fairfax. The City is actually quite historical and has some lovely houses and structures, as well as a few alluring Confederate tales. I have to say, I was struck anew at how beautiful Virginia is this time of year. Flowering dogwoods with their folksy connection to the True Cross, redbuds in their startling purple glory, white petals flutteringflutteringfluttering down everywhere, on your car, in your hair, on your steps. It's such an organic manifestation of abstract concepts like Easter and rebirth and new life.
Saturday night after his show Ryan came over and we went out to TGIFriday's where I was disappointed to see they have stopped making the 9-Layer Dip. That was my favorite item on the menu! :( Ryan asked after Duncan, Jason and Paula--he wanted to know about Sleeping in Tomorrow and when Jason and Paula were getting married. He's very good about that sort of thing. I myself have to kick myself to remind me of some social pleasantries, especially when I'm meetng a very close friend.
Sunday morning Mom and I went to church, at St. Mary's in Arlington. We saw Mrs. Austin there (I went to college with her daughter, Patricia--in fact, Patricia was one of the Kit Kat girls in Cabaret with me) and spotted a few others but didn't really linger. I was a bit...unsettled by the fact that there were very few other women wearing a sleeveless top, as I was. It's Virginia, Clara. People dress differently down there. Bows and pastel suits are perfectly acceptable. Sleeveless slinky black tops, maybe not so much. Although at least I wasn't wearing the hoochiemama short skirts I saw on a couple of teenagers. Ah yes, the true meaning of Christian fellowship--critiquing what everyone else is wearing.
Afterward, Mom and I did the brunch thing at home where she got to show off her omelet skills in her new kitchen. We had quite the gourmet brunch--bellinis, orange sticky rolls, and omelets with salmon cream cheese and caviar. My God. Words can't describe the deliciousness.
