Our condo building’s party Friday night went pretty well, in that I discovered our upstairs neighbor’s parents had taught at Kwansei Gakuin about fifteen years before mine did, so we spent some time trying to figure out what memories we have in common, and from there drifted to discussing Japan generally. Unfortunately we got into a mild but uncomfortable (to me at least) debate about abortion, but I guess that’s my fault for having mentioned the Pill in a cocktail-party conversation to begin with.
Saturday evening we went out to a restaurant for Yvonne’s sixty-fifth birthday. Andrew recognized some people, though he was pretty low. The early arrival of our Wheel-Trans cab home was partly compensated for by our fellow passenger, a cheerful young blind woman named Chelsea, on her way home from a concert and pleased by the driver’s taste in radio (Saturday Night Blues on CBC 2). I’ve no idea why I can recall the names of people I share cabs with on one single occasion more easily than those of people I actually know.
Sunday my parents wanted to take us for lunch and a museum trip, to celebrate my birthday (December 7th) and my brother’s (December 10th – he’s now forty); lunch was good but the Bata Shoe Museum turned out to not be the best choice – the displays were interesting enough, especially the one about traditional garments (including but not limited to footwear) of the Arctic*, but some of the rooms had patterned floor tiles that gave Andrew trouble, and in the end I decided to take him back down to the lobby rather than risk the black-and-white checkerboard pattern in the “Victorian Fashion Victims” display. Hoping things get better after his neurologist’s appointment tomorrow – at the very least, the appointment will be over and he won’t be stressed out in anticipation.
*I wonder if fans of Frozen get excited by the Sami garments?
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Date: 2017-12-11 11:37 pm (UTC)From:Okay, so it's not just me seeing the likeness in Anna's coat.
Happy belated birthday!