Monday I think I just came home after work (must’ve, because I was writing about the Packers), but Tuesday I went to yoga. Wednesday we had an outing to Milwaukee to see a photography exhibition, and hear Alec Soth. The show was good, portraits from the Haggerty Museum’s collections, Soth was a good speaker, and the questions from the assembled arty types were not as excruciating as they often are at that type of thing. It was good timing because Soth had just done a feature for the previous Sunday’s NYT mag. John came to meet us, and I gave him his Christmas books, Lee Friedlander, and another one I just bought on a whim. Andy said he’d looked through it, and it’s good.
The talk was in the appellate classroom in a newish law school building at Marquette – Mark said it was really similar to a business school building he and Ethan had toured last summer at Georgetown. We had to sign in, which slowed things down considerably, but they got all the people in eventually. John ran to his car to get a book for Soth to sign, and then we all rendevoused at a Chinese place that Andy & Deena recommended. we were the only customers, but the food was really good. The place was empty because it’s right across the street from the Pabst Theater, we got there at almost 8:00, and everyone had already eaten and left to go across the street to see ICarly – or I guess that should be Miranda Cosgrove of ICarly.
Thursday I had a dinner – not as hectic as the week before with 10 kids – there were only 6 – but there was a lot of coming and going. One of the moms had to leave her kids with another family and go down the street to open her studio for a class, so she and her kids ate in shifts. And two spouses got doggie bags taken home for them. I made lots of little things – pumpkin breads, one from the freezer and one from 101 (that came out a little dry, I think I mis-measured the flour) applesauce muffins; veggies and dip; cheesey toasts – with Jacque Pepin’s cheese spread made from the ends of all the cheese in the drawer, broiled on homemade baguettes. Two kinds of soup, cream of brocoflower, cauliflower and potato – which was good, and vegetable beef, my mommy’s, beef stew meat cooked in tomato juice with veggies added – which was even better. Spinach salad, with a tomato-ey dressing. Blueberry crisp, and grape-apple-strawberry crisp, with ice cream. Lots of good leftovers – and we’ll be having vegetable beef soup & spinach salad for dinner.
And Friday night I was in pjs by 8:30, with berry crisp for dessert, and tea, in front of TV. I watched an odd movie that James Franco acted in, wrote & directed, about 2 brothers and their problems with drugs, Good Time Max – Franco is Max.
Berry crisp topped with ice cream, and a cup of herbal tea
