Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Play/work balance

With the newsletter out of the way having worked all day Monday, I scheduled a play day, starting with appreciation of the rocks that my housemate uses in her vase. The tulips had dropped their petals and the rocks were in the sink. What a pleasure to see the shades of beige and brown, feel their smooth surfaces. A last sushi trip before I go to sushi-less Argelés, and discovered I had left my money at home. Fortunately No. 2 son bailed me out.

I ambled into Sherlock Holmes only to almost walk out, probably the second worst movie I've seen. Song of Norway wins the worst movie. It was so bad I enjoyed its badness. Ah well, I will get an espresso brownie, I thought, but as I left the theatre the No. 27 bus was there, a miracle. I hopped on and planned to get the brownie at Rive. At Rive, the bus was there. The universe was against me having a brownie. I can live with that.
Over the weekend My housemate and I escaped the Geneva cold and grey. We trained through postcard perfect snowy mountains to Lugano. We are used to bilingual French-English living. However, our Italian is limited to raviolo, risotto, lasagna, prego. Her German is fluent, mine is mini-functional but we managed with lots of laughter between all the languages. We took boat rides and bus rides...we explored an antiques mini marché, we meandered through a park admiring all the statues. The blue skies and above freezing temperatures were wonderful. The picture above is a gate to nowhere, and I got a chance to add to my cow photo collection. Click to appreciate the originality.

So tomorrow I face paper work for dumb stuff like taxes, and setting up an email account for the woman serving as my associate editor with the newsletter and and and...

Not a complaint...I like the play/work combination.

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Peter Patau said...

Yes, exactly -- Sherlock Holmes, as bad as a movie can get, but in a way you can't even enjoy the badness. We didn't walk out, but only because we're masochists.

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