|
cetera
four:eleven
games
heap
lunch
ginohnnews
pictures
poetry
pottery
wedding
|
Scrabbling Back
G:
Friday Kory and I took the metro downtown to meet Jenny at the Air
and Space Museum to see an I-Max movie about helicopters.
We were a little slower than we should have been getting out the door,
and then we just missed a train out of Greenbelt, so we had a nail
biting ride there, speculating whether we'd get there in time for the movie,
as the train seemed to take forever to get through the first few stops
and also had some unscheduled slows and stops. We exited the metro 3 minutes
before the movie and ran to the museum where Jenny was waiting at the entrance.
We only missed a few seconds, maybe a minute of the movie, but I was coughing
through most of it (as quietly as I could into my scarf) from running myself
to exhaustion in the cold, wet air. The show wasn't the swoopy ride I expected,
but was absolutely fascinating. We then went to see the Planetarium
show, which was pretty neat, sometimes awe inspiring. Just thinking about
the universe is pretty awe inspiring to me, though.
Afterwards
we went to Alexandria to eat at an Indian restaurant there that Jenny and
Kory have been frequenting. It was really cold out, and raining, so Jenny
wanted to take a cab there from the metro and offered to pay. Of course
it ended up costing more than she guessed, with traffic and extra people
in the cab and all. The restaurant wasn't quite open for dinner yet, so
we bade our time in a newsstand next door. I read an article in Guitar
magazine about George Harrison's new album Brainwashed, and an interview
with his son, Dhani. If I don't get that album for Xmash, I'm a gonna buy
it.
I enjoyed
the meal at the restaurant, but I didn't think it was particularly great,
and I tried a lot of their dishes with a sampler platter type thing. I
told the others that I probably wouldn't go out of my way to go back there,
but I changed my story later when I tasted the eggplant dish I brought
home for John. That was so good I hope we can go there again soon.
Saturday
night we had a Scrabble game with Kory and Jenny. We don't remember why
now, but we decided whoever won would get to decide what we did next. That
seemed like a good plan, and it was an exciting game, in which Kory came
from pretty far behind to suddenly make a 70-some-odd point move and win.
But then, of course, it was 2 and 1/2 hours later and dinner time. Kory
tried to decide on something to do, but Jenny was down for the count by
the time we got back from dinner. Kory gets to torture us another day.
On
Sunday I went to the University of MD to help move a bunch of stuff out
of the pottery studio since it will be closed and the new one won't reopen
until sometime in 2004. We brought a whole bunch of stuff over to the Greenbelt
studio. John came by to help after running other errands. As we were moving
stuff he warned me not to hurt my back. I turned around and warned him
not to hurt HIS back. Guess who hurt his back?
|
|