Total hours slept: 8
Total number of classes signed up for: 4
Total number of items on TO-DO list: 6
Total cups of tea drank: 0
Total number of emails processed: 12
Total number of boxes sorted: 4
Considering that it is currently 10:08am, I would say that the stats are still, so far, in my favor. Alright, onwards:
Yesterday, as most of you who read this know, was Kate's birthday. We had a movie day at her house (the last one this summer, I think, since Berkeley starts today and all other schools follow). Kate's rabbit was...'rambunctious' is nicest word I can use for her behavior. For some reason she had decided that her litter box was an enemy worthy of her foil and thus spent an admirable amount of effort headbutting it. I'm not entirely sure why she was doing that, since I AM pretty sure that she knew the litter box was (and still is, I hope) not alive.
Anna arrived next with a hug for Kate and the opening phrase "happy birthday!" which was immediately followed by the comment "Kate, your hair's wet." (Kate had just taken a shower.) We put out food. There was a lot of food. We put out more food. Kate chased Anna away from the kitchen. Well, not 'chase', exactly. It was more along the lines of Kate giving Anna one of her patented looks and Anna announcing that okay, she'd leave the kitchen now. (It was just as effective as a spatula.) Kate's mom came and they went to pick out movies. Kateryna came in the midst of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and aside from Anna, we all agreed that the science-defying movie of twitchy people was incredibly creepy. Kateryna brought "orangenade" soda which is, apparently, suppose to be like lemonade except with oranges. After about two seconds of consideration, we decided that healthy soda is an oxymoron and (I forgot who said it) anything that ends with the 'aed' sound is probably bad for you.
There was lunch (more food). Kate made us sandwiches. There was a very nice green table cloth that we, during the course of the day, redecorated with pineapples, mayo, and orangenade.
Soniya came in the middle of MIRRORMASK which I believe did not help her understand what the movie was about. It was not one of those movies that you can pick up in the middle and still figure out what happened. It WAS pretty though. And then there was (but of course) cake and the choir of "happy birthay", afterwhich Kate blew on her cake (because there was no candle) and wished that she'd never have hear us sing "happy-birthday" again. (I don't know, Kate. Do you think if I wrote it down here, for the records, that we'll remember it in time for next year?) Then there were presents and now that I've thought about it, Lucy, I am sorry that I didn't take pictures of Kate's expression. You'll just have to ask her what she got and imagine the expressions she must've had. Use that imagination. (Hem.)
We saw photos those of Lucy in Armenia (we were all very puzzled, by the way, with the one picture where Lucy dressed up and pretended to be an old woman) and we saw photos of Chicago, with occasional photos of Kate's mother in Chicago and one (yep, one) picture of Kate in Chicago. Soniya (and the rest of us) demanded to know why there wasn't more pictures of Kate and (Soniya) introduced us to the phrase "pristine beauty." In otherwords, the phrase "your photos need more 'pristine beauty'" meant "your photos need more you in it and less of the other stuff/people." I found (and still find) the idea of Kate as 'pristine' highly amusing and continues to wonder if I'm the only one who finds it funny.
Malvina came just as everyone was leaving (at around five). When she found out that we were all leaving, she ran back out and signals for Aaron to stop (eventually the signaling had to revert to the o' cellphone method) and wait for her, since she was not going to stay long then, either. At this point the rabbit was tired out (or bored out of her mind, couldn't say which) and could be found stretched out on the floor of her cage.
This was about the point when I left. As I was about to leave Kate went and got the box of soy-cracker-things that I brought, so now I have a box of soy-cracker-things and I really do think, Kate, that you will be seeing them in Davis.
Haunted by soy-cracker-things.
Still here: Ladies, come pick up your gents.
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