Friday,
February 1, 2002
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diva with flowers
"I do not mind lying but I
hate inaccuracy."
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LB's day off I got a good night's sleep. I slept quite hard. It was time for that. I don't get up all that early either. When I finally get around and get dressed, it's around nine. I call and get an appointment with the barber, Jane. For 11. I work on my place cards for the party and start picking stuff up. After my haircut, I go downtown to Austin Wine Merchant and to Wiggy's. I pick up Riedel glasses that they are holding for me and let both places sell me some wine. We are 'restocking' the cellar and I get some basic stuff (on sale champage, white burgundy) and some nicer stuff for FFP and I to have some time (a good Pinot, some vintage champagne). I take it all home and FFP puts the wine away and I start washing and polishing the glasses and getting china and place settings out. I have some lunch and the maid comes by to dust a little and I finish with the glassware. I realize I'm still short on Burgundy glasses. I think I got the Burgundy and Bordeaux counts mixed up. FFP calls Grapevine Market and gets a couple held for me. I am managing to support most of the local wine stores.
I clear up other piles of junk like my newspapers and work some more on the place cards. SuRu is early to pick me up for the evening and I'm not dressed. Since we have to stop by Grapevine Market, I call LG on SuRu's cell phone and tell her we'll be late. We have a Swiss 'mixed' salad and fondue and wine and a tarte with espresso and we talk and talk about stuff. Corporations. Unscrupulous contrators. Religion. At some point we invent a pun for an epitaph for me: "Käse Raw Syrah." This represents, of course, my love of cheese, uncooked food and wine and a certain 'whatever' attitude. Then we talk travel. First airplane rides, how much we spent on first trip to Europe (LG estimates $1000 for the summer of 1971 and I estimate about $1500 for the fall of '72), how we bought gifts for people. I bought my mother a tablecloth in Copenhagen that she still uses and LG bought her grandmother a tablecloth in Switzerland that she never used and now LG has it, neatly folded in a bag and with the price (98 Swiss Francs, I think) still on it. We decry the Euro. And SuRu and I limp home, a little bit late.
It seemed like Saturday since I didn't work. But when I went out the traffic seemed different than Saturday. And I kept wondering why FFP was working so hard.
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