Playing Catch-up

Yikes. This whole new Blogger look is a little disorienting at first. Nice, though. Yay, Graham! (Because I'm sure you did it all yourself. :P)

Sorry for not blogging for a while. I've been kind of busy and kind of sick. Okay, more than kind of. Last week I was struggling to get a rough draft of a paper done for Friday (which I got back today with very little constructive criticism -- grrr), then Saturday I got sick and that's pretty much how the week went. Renegade Rose danced at the Portland Farmer's Market Garden Party on Saturday afternoon. We managed to get lots of the audience up for a dance, and drove the rain away, so it was a successful gig. And they paid us in "Market Bucks," which was even better! :) Hugo took me out to dinner on Saturday night for my birthday. We went to a restaurant downtown called Higgins, which buys only locally grown organic ingredients and makes fabulous desserts. Actually, everything we had was excellent. I had a (virgin) strawberry daiquiri made with the very first organic Oregon strawberries, which are like no other strawberries on this planet. (Honestly, it's worth coming to visit me this summer just to taste the strawberries.) Yum.

This week I've been alternating sleeping with tryng to catch up on the schoolwork I've missed while I was sleeping. I'm still pretty behind in several things, but I made it through my archaeology midterm this morning, which is all I was really worried about. And I'm feeling much better, so hopefully I'll catch up this weekend. We're going to the Farmer's Market tomorrow, then out to pick up a compost bin that's $25 special through a city program -- hooray for compost! :P And tomorrow night we're having a triple-birthday party at Anne's for me, Anne (whose birthday was yesterday) and Janet (whose birthday is Sunday). Should be oodles of fun. Sunday is a memorial service for Merritt Herring, a wonderful folk singer who passed away a few weeks ago. Hugo is making "Merritt badges" with a picture of Merrit to give to people who come. :)

On a slightly random ending note... Hugo and I went out to lunch today at a Thai restaurant. We got fortune cookies with our bill, and I still haven't quite figured mine out yet. It says "You will have an exciting addition to your life by being the warm to others." Any ideas? Have I been "the warm" to any of you out there? :P