Well, here we are again. Monday morning. I was in the office both days this weekend working on an appellate brief, so I'm feeling all rested and refreshed and raring to go for the four days of depositions I have this week. [insert hollow laughter here]
The weekend was not a total loss, however. On Saturday night I attended the New York Philharmonic's performance of Mendelssohn's oratorio, Elijah. It was a superb performance all-round, but the real stand-out was Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley. After the concert, we (as in my concert buddy Susan and I, not me and Mr. Finley) had a late dinner at Nougatine. When I hopped in a cab to head back to the East Side, I found an empty Smirnoff bottle on the seat. A quick reconnoiter revealed that no one had vomited in said back seat nor did the driver seem drunk, so I continued on home. A classic evening in the Big Apple.
When I trudged home from the office late Sunday afternoon, I sank into a light comfort read, The True Memoirs of Little K: A Novel, by Adrienne Sharp. "Little K," a Russian prima ballerina assoluta in the waning days of the 19th century, becomes the mistress of the last tsar before his marriage to Alexandra, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and carrier of the hemophiliac gene that plays its part in bringing the imperial family to its doom. Good for ballet lovers, Romanov aficionados, mentally exhausted lawyers, etc.
Had one of those weekends too so I sympathise. I wont go into the gory details (it involved an unexpected early start, mopping up a car sick toddler and battling round the very busy shops with said toddler in a pushchair - by the end of which I was tempted to have a tantrum!)but the longed for weekend passed by in a blur of work and child minding and now here I am back stuck in the office for a further five days with no time off for good behaviour!
I think I had better go and get some more coffee - I sound decidedly cranky!
Posted by: Liz F | November 15, 2010 at 04:24 AM
Hi LizF: Grrr! I don't blame you for being a wee bit cranky. We ALL need some "down time" free from the office, the blackberry, the cellphone. (And car sick toddlers. Poor thing -- I used to be the kid who threw up on every car trip my parents ever took . . . )
Posted by: Karen | November 15, 2010 at 07:26 AM
I'm putting this for obvious reasons!!
Posted by: Madame B. | November 15, 2010 at 10:57 PM
Hi Madame B: Good to "see you" -- I figured you would sympathize.... Talk soon!
Posted by: Karen | November 16, 2010 at 07:54 AM