Day 1231: Friday fun
Aug. 4th, 2023 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeThis afternoon, I had the vague idea that at 5:30 pm I'd go to Z's office for the First Friday art walk, as they were hosting some of the art, and then make it home with ample time to see the Friday movie, which was going to be either Edge of Tomorrow or Return to Oz. Then I got an email from SDH, the head of our psychology department and also my friend - she was part of the activities of that research group that had included me this week, and she was telling all of us that she'd reserved a big table at McMenamin's for 5:30 pm, as a last activity for them all before they head home. Fun! So I went to that instead.
I sat at one end of the big table, and the people near me on the left were two young Italian women named Marta and Elisa; on the other side of them was Paul S. On the right were Paul's son SS, SDH, and the Israeli woman, Tehira. Further down were more Italians, a German, a local faculty member, and SS's wife, whom I suppose is also an SS. The fact that I've known SDH for so long was very useful every time the conversation flagged, because I'd just ask her a question. She's very chatty, and the conversation would again become lively. "Will your string quartet be performing this year?" "Does your brother still live in Taiwan?" etc. Elisa is spending a year in the US, but Marta flies home to Italy on Monday and then heads to Sicily for a vacation in the town of Trapani; she showed me photos and has her recreational reading all picked out. She's also planning a vacation in Jordan next year.
They were all reluctant to say goodbye after their week together - they've been meeting in Eugene for years, most of them - so when J. called to remind me that the movie was starting (Edge of Tomorrow, not to be confused with the soap opera Edge of Night, though I did so), I was still sitting there with them. Eventually we all got up and went outside, with SDH making a quip about decision-making researchers having a hard time making a decision, and then I went home.
I was 40 minutes late for the movie, but... it's very much like Groundhog's Day, with the man's day repeating endlessly every time he dies (in a war of humanity against invading aliens), and with a sentence or two of backstory from J, I felt I hadn't missed a thing. Turns out it was a major action movie starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, and we quite enjoyed it.
I sat at one end of the big table, and the people near me on the left were two young Italian women named Marta and Elisa; on the other side of them was Paul S. On the right were Paul's son SS, SDH, and the Israeli woman, Tehira. Further down were more Italians, a German, a local faculty member, and SS's wife, whom I suppose is also an SS. The fact that I've known SDH for so long was very useful every time the conversation flagged, because I'd just ask her a question. She's very chatty, and the conversation would again become lively. "Will your string quartet be performing this year?" "Does your brother still live in Taiwan?" etc. Elisa is spending a year in the US, but Marta flies home to Italy on Monday and then heads to Sicily for a vacation in the town of Trapani; she showed me photos and has her recreational reading all picked out. She's also planning a vacation in Jordan next year.
They were all reluctant to say goodbye after their week together - they've been meeting in Eugene for years, most of them - so when J. called to remind me that the movie was starting (Edge of Tomorrow, not to be confused with the soap opera Edge of Night, though I did so), I was still sitting there with them. Eventually we all got up and went outside, with SDH making a quip about decision-making researchers having a hard time making a decision, and then I went home.
I was 40 minutes late for the movie, but... it's very much like Groundhog's Day, with the man's day repeating endlessly every time he dies (in a war of humanity against invading aliens), and with a sentence or two of backstory from J, I felt I hadn't missed a thing. Turns out it was a major action movie starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, and we quite enjoyed it.
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Date: 2023-08-07 11:04 pm (UTC)I may not be very chatty, but if I know how to get the chatty person going, that's useful too! :)
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Date: 2023-08-07 11:41 pm (UTC)that is a special talent you have. :)
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