The Griddle Breakfast Menu is perfection. I say it probably twice a week but particularly today I again (again) woke up extremely needy, desperately missing our old routine. Jeremy? V? Coffee, Peanut Bubba or Black Magic, fruit bowl, maybe a mimosa, the back room if we can get it or the back table if not,…. and invite EVERYONE. Or, we could do Toast, Lulu’s (or LaLa’s Lilo? Oooh Lola’s! hahahhaa),… maybe sneak over to the Grove for crepes and reading at B&N in the afternoon? Ha. Back ever farther,… let’s just go to Hoffman’s. Or the Bistro. No, Hoffman’s. Dan? Lisa? Whatdya think? It’s not that I don’t love my people here - because believe me, I do and they know it - but no one understands. A woman like me has NEEDS. I want my Sunday brunch! Guess I’ll be making myself some banana pancakes and singing along to Jack but I’d so much rather be there with youse guys.

P.S. Will someone buy me a scratch-n-sniff “Hotcakes” T-shirt??

It’s belated but for everyone who remembered and sent wishes, as well as those who actually participated, thank you for helping to give me a wonderfully happy birthday. I couldn’t and wouldn’t want to do it without you.

wanted to use that heading before I went and saw “The Prestige” by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan. (actually, by Christopher Priest but I haven’t read the book; don’t have time for novels these days.) Am very glutinous, attending a movie on a Saturday night when the first of my exams is tomorrow and the others are just two weeks away. TWO WEEKS! Birthday celebrations….. more of the same? Was chatting with the fabulous Ms. Sue Kempson and she assured me: 1) the first exam is easy b/c it’s open book, 2) we’re all faded in the 11-week mark, and 3) she’s confident I’ll slam in a home run. Perhaps I’ve read into what she was saying a bit. Personally, I would have to say I dropped back a few weeks ago. Probably at least a month, maybe more. Am pushing forward again but definitely have neither maintained my competitive edge nor my place in the pack. It’s okay. I never was alpha dog. My task these next few weeks is simply to apply painstaking attention to detail. If I can master my 10 enzymes, then I can master the PA/Pa, and I can master the haemolymphatics, so I can definitely master the spot exam.

Rapidly approaching next year’s resolution: always do your best.

She used to let me share her bed.
Now she shares her bed with Rocky.
They will be happy playing together.
Both are missed.

Blossom
12/98-10/06