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I spent three days of this weekend in Arlington with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
adrian_turtle, for general moral support, specific spare hands and random manual labor, and enjoying each other's company. (In the end, she went to her lab Sunday but not Saturday, and I went with her, which was where most of the manual labor came in: I lifted this and carried that and opened the other; thus, I neither went to the gym nor called any of my Boston-area friends.) Other than the work stuff, we hung out in the ways that we will, and did no cooking beyond a pot of oatmeal for Sunday lunch and a rather nice salad as part of Sunday supper (to go with the previous night's leftover barbecue). I think we got enough sleep; I woke her around ten this morning, so we'd have a bit of time before I headed out.
The trip up was annoyingly long, but at least my bus wasn't in either of the accidents that led to major traffic jams. The trip down was smooth, and noteworthy because I added another bird to my life list: a peacock, standing on the grass next to I-84 in eastern Connecticut. (I'd seen plenty in zoos, but by the generally accepted rules of birding, captive birds don't count, and ferals do.)
It's a four-day weekend, which gives me all of tomorrow withcattitude.
adrian_turtle, for general moral support, specific spare hands and random manual labor, and enjoying each other's company. (In the end, she went to her lab Sunday but not Saturday, and I went with her, which was where most of the manual labor came in: I lifted this and carried that and opened the other; thus, I neither went to the gym nor called any of my Boston-area friends.) Other than the work stuff, we hung out in the ways that we will, and did no cooking beyond a pot of oatmeal for Sunday lunch and a rather nice salad as part of Sunday supper (to go with the previous night's leftover barbecue). I think we got enough sleep; I woke her around ten this morning, so we'd have a bit of time before I headed out.The trip up was annoyingly long, but at least my bus wasn't in either of the accidents that led to major traffic jams. The trip down was smooth, and noteworthy because I added another bird to my life list: a peacock, standing on the grass next to I-84 in eastern Connecticut. (I'd seen plenty in zoos, but by the generally accepted rules of birding, captive birds don't count, and ferals do.)
It's a four-day weekend, which gives me all of tomorrow with
cattitude.