While I feel I am kind of crashing into the end of the year I have managed to do some fun things! Last night I went over to the East Bay and had dinner with some new folks I have met and then went to a Tori Amos concert. It was very cool, she's amazingly talented, the light show was great and I was very taken with the string quartet that accompanied her. Before the concert we had dinner at Pican restaurant, which bills itself as a "taste of the south". It was very good.
Two of the people I was with are involved in real estate and the third an attorney for a union......so it was lively conversation as they are all variously smart and people orientated.
Funniest moment was arriving and realizing I didn't know the last name of the person who booked the restaurant, fortunately the two others had arrived (and no I didn't know them prior). The Maitre d pointed them out so I walked up and introduced myself. It's moments like these that have me realize how much more confident I am in my social world. Navigating life here has pushed me to be far more outgoing in my interactions with people (I could easily have waited outside for the host to arrive....but didn't).
Irene has left for Australia which also means Lotte has left for Santa Cruz.....although she did stay with me one night. Marcia and her friend are staying upstairs so there are folks around. Three more working days to go then I leave my work laptop behind and to NZ for summer adventures!
