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May 06, 2005

Friday night; Moo and Herself and Spike and I in the office. I'm ... well... doing this; Moo is playing Diablo; Herself is drawing pictures of cats. "Spike, you're my inspiration!"

On Monday morning when I woke up I thought it was Friday morning, which made the week seem to stretch out to infinity, but here we are at last at the end of it and we're all okay. It's 10:30 and we should all be in bed, but here we are anyway, and it's been about fifteen minutes and Herself is still talking to me. It's a nice interlude.

I went to the dentist yesterday and don't have any cavities, and that's nice, too.

On Wednesday I went out for a sushi lunch with my friends T. and C., the Birthday Princess. We sat on the third floor of the Singapore Bistro, where it is usually either too hot or too cold, but that day it was just right. We ordered edamame and spicy tuna rolls and tuna with avocado and eel and crunchy shrimp.

A woman was seated at the same time we were, at a table by the window. She was of indeterminate age; thin, black sweater, a hat. Or a cap. She looked tired. Or ...sick. Sick, I think, maybe. And maybe the cap was because she was losing her hair, since it wasn't cold out. She was so pale. And sad. She had a book with her but she didn't read; she sat and looked out the window and looked sad. Ordered and didn't eat. A bowl of soup sat on her table, getting cold. She looked out the window.

Afer about ten minutes or so, a man--not so tall, gray hair but a boyish face still--walked by us and went to her table; she looked up and didn't smile--he must have been late. I watched them. She said something, sternly. He looked at her, and then he leaned across the table, cupped the side of her face gently in his palm, and gave her--oh, the most tender kiss. Oh. It actually brought tears to my eyes to see it, and I pretended it was the wasabi. The most tender kiss. He sat down next to her and she put her head on his shoulder. Her face was transformed.

So people still love each other, I guess.

Posted by JudyLa at 10:17 PM | Comments (0)