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This was one of the busier (and better weekends) that I've had in a while. Lots to write about so I'm going to break it up by day.
Friday:
Friday I went on the WCMA summer fieldtrip. First we went to DIA Beaconwhich was absolutely amazing! Truly incredible. Then to see Bard College's new performing arts building designed by Frank Gehry. We got a tour and even to see part of a rehearsal for their upcoming opera Osud. Then we went to a field full of bugs and sort of mediocre sculpture, but we didn't stay too long.
Afterwards Denis picked me up and we went to Eleven (the trendiest restaurant in the area) with everyone from our other job at Agora Media. We got to meet everyone from the Brooklyn office as well as some other North Adams people and spouses/significant others/children. It was great to meet a whole new group of intelligent young (20s through early 40s I'm guessing) people. Not to mention that dinner and drinks were great (and free), Denis is still talking about how good the hanger steak was. I hope there are more company events in the future (our boss mentioned something about Las Vegas, depending on how things go?).
Saturday:
Saturday Denis worked 7:30am-10:30am at Best Buy, then we worked 10:15-4:15pm at Agora, then he had Best Buy again from 6-10:30pm. I went to a co-worker's (from WCMA) birthday party which was right down the street. I wasn't feeling great and didn't expect to stay long, but I ended up chatting with a lot of people and having a good time. There were a lot of people from work there, plus some older graduates of my grad. program (one who is at NYU and offered me a place to stay if I want to go look at the school this fall) which were great to talk too.
Then I went home and watched movies (must take advantage of expensive HBO). I saw Kissing Jessica Stein, which was cute and funny, and I identified with the neuroticism of the lead character, and then got kind of depressed because started thinking that this would be the only way that I would become best girlfriends with someone (I never had a "best" female friend, even as a kid, something I've often wanted), of course Denis didn't take kindly to this idea. Oh there I go again talking about things you're not supposed to talk about publically when you're married, except to your best girlfriends, which I don't really have, sigh. The next movie on, High Art, which I've seen before, didn't help cheer me up at all, just made me nostalgic for college and the Breakfast Club. Went to bed kind of sad.
Sunday:
Sunday we did a bunch of errands (I even did some sewing, who knew I would actually get around to mending). We went and saw The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which was a fun 2-hours although not an earth-shakingly good movie. Had fun identifying the literary references to the idiot high-school kids in the lobby. I also talked to my sister for over an hour and found out that my parents (and maybe now Denis and I too) will be going to an island in Texas for a week next January. Not sure how exciting that will be, but Melissa is now 21 so the three (or four if her boyfriend comes) of us can head either to Austin or Mexico and go out at night. Now back to work, it's Monday, ho hum. Didn't do any grad. school/Fulbright stuff this weekend which I feel kind of guilty about, but not horribly.
Friday:
Friday I went on the WCMA summer fieldtrip. First we went to DIA Beaconwhich was absolutely amazing! Truly incredible. Then to see Bard College's new performing arts building designed by Frank Gehry. We got a tour and even to see part of a rehearsal for their upcoming opera Osud. Then we went to a field full of bugs and sort of mediocre sculpture, but we didn't stay too long.
Afterwards Denis picked me up and we went to Eleven (the trendiest restaurant in the area) with everyone from our other job at Agora Media. We got to meet everyone from the Brooklyn office as well as some other North Adams people and spouses/significant others/children. It was great to meet a whole new group of intelligent young (20s through early 40s I'm guessing) people. Not to mention that dinner and drinks were great (and free), Denis is still talking about how good the hanger steak was. I hope there are more company events in the future (our boss mentioned something about Las Vegas, depending on how things go?).
Saturday:
Saturday Denis worked 7:30am-10:30am at Best Buy, then we worked 10:15-4:15pm at Agora, then he had Best Buy again from 6-10:30pm. I went to a co-worker's (from WCMA) birthday party which was right down the street. I wasn't feeling great and didn't expect to stay long, but I ended up chatting with a lot of people and having a good time. There were a lot of people from work there, plus some older graduates of my grad. program (one who is at NYU and offered me a place to stay if I want to go look at the school this fall) which were great to talk too.
Then I went home and watched movies (must take advantage of expensive HBO). I saw Kissing Jessica Stein, which was cute and funny, and I identified with the neuroticism of the lead character, and then got kind of depressed because started thinking that this would be the only way that I would become best girlfriends with someone (I never had a "best" female friend, even as a kid, something I've often wanted), of course Denis didn't take kindly to this idea. Oh there I go again talking about things you're not supposed to talk about publically when you're married, except to your best girlfriends, which I don't really have, sigh. The next movie on, High Art, which I've seen before, didn't help cheer me up at all, just made me nostalgic for college and the Breakfast Club. Went to bed kind of sad.
Sunday:
Sunday we did a bunch of errands (I even did some sewing, who knew I would actually get around to mending). We went and saw The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which was a fun 2-hours although not an earth-shakingly good movie. Had fun identifying the literary references to the idiot high-school kids in the lobby. I also talked to my sister for over an hour and found out that my parents (and maybe now Denis and I too) will be going to an island in Texas for a week next January. Not sure how exciting that will be, but Melissa is now 21 so the three (or four if her boyfriend comes) of us can head either to Austin or Mexico and go out at night. Now back to work, it's Monday, ho hum. Didn't do any grad. school/Fulbright stuff this weekend which I feel kind of guilty about, but not horribly.
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I think that's why I cling to my Amarna friends so much - the close connections felt really natural there, whereas right now with my work friends for example, we're all friendly to each other but it feels more superficial like you were saying. It's not that we don't care about each other - it's more like it somehow doesn't seem as appropriate to talk about more serious and meaningful things. It's like there's some invisible barrier or something.
It really struck me one time at college when I went to a discussion about depression that was happening in my dorm cluster. We got a random smattering of students from the dorm, and the person leading the discussion was talking about the various signs of depression and how to approach someone that you think might be depressed. A couple people (they were boys, but I don't think it's limited to boys) remarked, "But...I don't really talk about feelings to my friends. It would be weird to just go up to someone and say 'Hey, are you feeling okay?'" This just baffled me - in my opinion, if you can't talk about your feelings to your friends... what's the point? I mean, I you can have activity partners and stuff, but what really makes people your friend if you're not somehow emotionally connected?
Anyway, sorry to ramble. I don't really know where I'm going with this, other than to say I agree about Amarna friends being uber cool. *sigh* =)
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For the record, it was totally affectionate.