July 21, 2008

• a midsummer night’s stream

  MINNEAPOLIS, MN | SYMPHONY PLACE, 13F »

  as quickly as they come, they go. (warning: posterity post.)

  paul was here this past weekend.  he arrived thursday night and departed earlier this evening.  taking the hiawatha line is pretty nice, as is pricelining a hyundai sonata from hertz for $10/day.  jacuzzis, $25 gift cards to palomino, and tours.  the walker art center, cafe lurcat, and red bull’s illume on the stone arch bridge.  the diving bell and the butterly, the dark knight.  brunch on a cloudy saturday morning at lake calhoun, then a wild ride to stillwater, just along the st croix river (and just across from wiscon-ser-in).  bumping into chris.  antique stores and downpours.  driving at 20 mph and the st paul supertarget.  a $150 dinner at jean georges’ chambers kitchen.  will, paige, and allison.  even the laundry on a late saturday night.  canceling hell’s kitchen.  the drive to champlin and michael’s fantastic grilling.  final packing and farewells to ruby.  the mall of america, nickelodeon universe, and the search for a mcdonald’s (arby’s instead).  and the lonely light rail home.

  ruby’s curled up into a ball right next to me, her stomach gently expanding and contracting with each slumberous breath.  earlier, i realized i had lost count of how many weeks it’s been here.  perhaps i’ve acclimated.  perhaps things are starting to feel like home.  but let me do the counting–mm–when i went to SF that was after week three, and paul would come two weeks later, aha!  week six.

  week six!  and not much more to look forward to, other than–in the short term, at least–project, project, project.  my presentation date is a mere 2.5 weeks away, meaning the next ten days are going to be a sprint to the finish.  several of us have resigned ourselves to the data-delay-driven nights we’ll spend crunching and charting target’s next big thing in X.  these are no petty questions, for sure.

  three weekends left.  a local, a lake, and–duluth?  mount rushmore was punted around and finally abandoned.  midweek activities are still in play but quickly being panned.  it will all depend on how good everyone feels about their projects.

  the end of a good weekend, the start of a new day.

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