3.11.02 – buffalo gal, won’t you come out tonight?

the past few days have been filled with laughter and old friends and good food, and i feel very fortunate indeed.

met sumit for dinner; we went to an indian restaurant near his office where he’s something of a regular. apparently he usually goes there after working late and brings work with him, so when he showed up at 8 o’clock on a saturday night with a girl, there was a flurry of excitement, a quiet table for two set up before we could get our coats off, free deserts and much conversing in hindi. later my stage-manager-turned-law-student friend emily called in search of a study break. we ended up drinking pints of bass in some bar in the village, yelling at one another about theatre and men and politics, and a good time was had by all.

yesterday i met amanda at penn station and we hung out; the aim was to shop but we mostly ended up chattering and walking in the wrong directions. she brought me home to randolph, nj, for a home-cooked meal with her family and a chance to finally meet winston (pronounced “WEEN-stun”, with the first syllable very high pitched, the second very low) the chocolate lab who reportedly spends 98% of his energy growing and losing fur on everyone and thing. winston didn’t seem quite as hairy as one might have expected, but he had beautiful, chocolate brown eyes and a big doggy smile.

tonight i am packing; i fly back to buffalo early tomorrow morning and plunge straight in to tech for Buffalo Gal.

i seem to be having a semicolon phase in my writing these days. i don’t know what that means.