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social weekend
Aug. 11th, 2003 12:23 pmThe weekend was good but not productive in an academic sense.
Friday afternoon we ate Ethiopian food with some friends from Providence. Saturday we spent in Providence itself with some different friends (yet still from the same social circle) who are about to move to the Northeast Kingdom in Vermont. We went to the zoo to see monkeys and bats and so forth, then had a tasty vegetarian meal at the Garden Grille, followed by ice cream at Maximilian's (the employees of which scooped our sundaes to a This Ascension soundtrack). It happened to be a festive night in the Renaissance City: there was some kind of Portuguese feast-and-carnival at a Catholic church around the corner from our friends' soon-to-be-ex apartment; and of course there was a WaterFire, so we walked along the river and watched numerous burning logs attempt to quench themselves and escape downriver to the sea.
Most of Sunday we passed pleasantly at a friends' wedding-related party out in south central Massachusetts. We took the scenic (and toll-free) route there, the mighty Route 20, which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
julishka informs us would take us even unto Cleveland were we to let it. It passes through several affluent towns clinging to their rurality in an upscale sort of way and then, when it reaches those lands falling under the Worcester hegemony, offers the traveler access to a seemingly endless buffet of automotive dealerships and strip clubs.
Last night, after returning home (this time via the Mass Pike, if you must know) too full of cake to bother with dinner, J. and I watched the Clooney etc. remake of Ocean's Eleven, a heist movie in which the protagonists risk imprisonment and/or death so that they can each take away slightly less money than Arnold Schwarzenegger pays yearly in income taxes.
Happy birthday, current and belated, to Kevin and Jen, but not the Kevin and Jen that you might think of as "Kevin and Jen" (or, if you like, as "Jen and Kevin"), although that other Kevin had a birthday very recently, and that other Jen's is not far off.
Friday afternoon we ate Ethiopian food with some friends from Providence. Saturday we spent in Providence itself with some different friends (yet still from the same social circle) who are about to move to the Northeast Kingdom in Vermont. We went to the zoo to see monkeys and bats and so forth, then had a tasty vegetarian meal at the Garden Grille, followed by ice cream at Maximilian's (the employees of which scooped our sundaes to a This Ascension soundtrack). It happened to be a festive night in the Renaissance City: there was some kind of Portuguese feast-and-carnival at a Catholic church around the corner from our friends' soon-to-be-ex apartment; and of course there was a WaterFire, so we walked along the river and watched numerous burning logs attempt to quench themselves and escape downriver to the sea.
Most of Sunday we passed pleasantly at a friends' wedding-related party out in south central Massachusetts. We took the scenic (and toll-free) route there, the mighty Route 20, which
julishka informs us would take us even unto Cleveland were we to let it. It passes through several affluent towns clinging to their rurality in an upscale sort of way and then, when it reaches those lands falling under the Worcester hegemony, offers the traveler access to a seemingly endless buffet of automotive dealerships and strip clubs.Last night, after returning home (this time via the Mass Pike, if you must know) too full of cake to bother with dinner, J. and I watched the Clooney etc. remake of Ocean's Eleven, a heist movie in which the protagonists risk imprisonment and/or death so that they can each take away slightly less money than Arnold Schwarzenegger pays yearly in income taxes.
Happy birthday, current and belated, to Kevin and Jen, but not the Kevin and Jen that you might think of as "Kevin and Jen" (or, if you like, as "Jen and Kevin"), although that other Kevin had a birthday very recently, and that other Jen's is not far off.
