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Radio silence this weekend was caused by me going down to mom and S.'s place in NYC to be a foodie. We met up with P., mom's boyfriend's sister, and J., her daughter, and went to Flushing for Chinese food from a food court. Highlights included a mango drink, a plum green tea that tasted more like prunes than plums, salt and pepper fried chicken, four or five kinds of dumplings (egg and chive was my favorite, though the lamb ones were good too), and fried noodles with chicken and greens. Non-highlights that were still good included bottled green tea I drank on the train, white rice, potato and pepper salad, pig's blood cake coated in peanuts, and a basil chicken that everyone else liked a lot more than I did.
Conversation included food, relative's love lives, and J. and I bonding about how terrible Hillary Clinton is on gay issues. (Queen of unforced errors, hurrah.) She's a lesbian and goes to a lot of pride things. I've never explicitly said I'm bisexual, but I generally don't in person because I don't talk much in person period.
Then dinner, bought at the Chinese restaurants and brought home on the train, with S., his daughter E. who is getting married to E., and mom. That was nice, but I was falling asleep because I'd been up until 2 AM watching House of Cards and wasn't much company. They talked about wedding planning and more about my brother's love life. (He has a Russian girlfriend who's coming to the wedding. It's fascinating to everyone.)
Today I slept in, partially thanks to the time change, had tea, took a walk by the Hudson, read part of On China by Kissinger, read an article in the Atlantic by Goldberg on Obama's foreign policy, and thought about the week and writing and work and not that much about gardening.
Weather this weekend was warm, but still required a light coat. I spent a great deal of time on trains, all of which I caught successfully and were on time, though the air conditioning did fail on the last one for about half an hour until they brought an engineer on board. Wildlife included ducks, swans, and other assorted birds I didn't recognize. All the crocuses are up already in New York, though they aren't open yet.
Conversation included food, relative's love lives, and J. and I bonding about how terrible Hillary Clinton is on gay issues. (Queen of unforced errors, hurrah.) She's a lesbian and goes to a lot of pride things. I've never explicitly said I'm bisexual, but I generally don't in person because I don't talk much in person period.
Then dinner, bought at the Chinese restaurants and brought home on the train, with S., his daughter E. who is getting married to E., and mom. That was nice, but I was falling asleep because I'd been up until 2 AM watching House of Cards and wasn't much company. They talked about wedding planning and more about my brother's love life. (He has a Russian girlfriend who's coming to the wedding. It's fascinating to everyone.)
Today I slept in, partially thanks to the time change, had tea, took a walk by the Hudson, read part of On China by Kissinger, read an article in the Atlantic by Goldberg on Obama's foreign policy, and thought about the week and writing and work and not that much about gardening.
Weather this weekend was warm, but still required a light coat. I spent a great deal of time on trains, all of which I caught successfully and were on time, though the air conditioning did fail on the last one for about half an hour until they brought an engineer on board. Wildlife included ducks, swans, and other assorted birds I didn't recognize. All the crocuses are up already in New York, though they aren't open yet.
