Author: Doris

An extended family portrait.

Yes. I am blogging from my iPhone.

Donald and I spent the day after Thanksgiving walking around NYC. Here’s the main reading room NY Public Library, it’s closed stack so you have to go to a little window to request a book. So beautiful I almost couldn’t bear it.

The weather was perfect on Thanksgiving.

Hooray! We survived our first day with both parents working! Edda was threatening to throw a wrench into the works with a fever spiking up to 104 F on Saturday night, but lady luck visited us yesterday and she recovered on our lovely drive home from NY and was good to go to school today keeping us on our tightly planned schedule.

Updated with a picture.

We always optimistically think it will take 5 hours to go from upstate NY to the burbs of Washington DC. Of course – we left at 9:30 am and got home at 6 pm – what’s that? Hmmm… eight and a half hours.

We did find a roadside diner – Funck’s… Funny name, fried food.

Well it’s been a pretty good couple of days in Paris I must say.

The conference was alright. I got some contacts for some of the systems that we want to put up, but quite honestly, schmoozing that much makes me tired. I know conferences are all about talking and helping each other out, but it seems to happen at such a high level… I really live in the details and the nitty gritty. I still can’t believe i paid 27 euro 3 times over for an internet connection during the meeting. Oye.

I’ve been hanging out with Nasreen a lot these past couple of days. We’ve gone to the cinema. We’ve eaten at one of the restaurants on the Eiffel Tower for her birthday. We’ve gone off shopping (for her a cream or red jacket, for me a euro scarf.) I’ve met up with Ann’s friend, Elin, who lives in Paris. She’s a very … straightforward person. 🙂 We all sat at her apartment drinking wine and vodka. 🙂 The transit strike in Paris is still going on. Sigh.

Nasreen is really coming into her own here living on her own in Paris. I feel like she’s more in command of her life. It’s really the first time that she’s been totally on her own… All the best for finding everything you want in Paris, Nasreen.

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Things always happen, and I end up blogging about them like a week later.

Anyways, Ted came by SF 2 weekends ago. We had a pretty good time. It’s usual for the course. Do whatever. No planning. He go it on Thursday night. I took off on Friday, and we walked from my place all the way to Sausalito – about 7-8 miles. It was a beautiful day. Of course, all the beaches were closed due to the oil spill.

Saturday morning, we went over to the farmer’s market at the Ferry Building. It’s pretty crazy there – and it’s not really all that cheap like you’d expect a farmer’s market to be. Still pretty good fruits. Later that night, we met up with Frank and JT and went off to the Boom Boom Room to listen to some funk band. That was fun. It was good to see Frank up in the city.

Sunday was just a lazy day. We made our way down to Palo Alto to hang out with Arif and some folks. One of Ted’s friends was setting him up with someone. 🙂 laff.

And Monday was off to Paris.