Hi all,
At Jil's request I am starting a blog. It will, in all likelihood, be painfully lame and include many accounts of what we had for dinner and what Vincent said today. Actually that sounds kind of awesome, so I take it back. This will likely be the BEST BLOG YOU'VE EVER READ. After, Jungle Jil, of course. ;) It will also be a way for Jil to keep up with life here in Chicago.
So my grad school friend and housemate Tara has been in town from Glasgow, Scotland for the last two weeks for work. She came up for dinner last night (clam sauce! Green beans! Vincent-made chocolate chip cookies!) and then back tonight for dinner again, this time with Nate, a great friend of ours from grad school as well, who is finishing a long (five year) postdoc at University of Chicago. U of C is really far from here psychologically, though only 40 minutes by car, so I have seen Nate twice since we moved here six years ago. We are also in utterly different places in life, so maybe things would be different if he were not single and living a sort of bare-bones intellectual Hyde Park life. At any rate, it was great to see them and Vincent had a blast once he decided he liked Nate. After dinner we took Ivan for a long walk around the neighborhood and it was so great to be around friends. I have almost no social life here, it's always just work, dinner with the boy and Dan, then TV or read until bed while Dan works. But now that I have tenure maybe that will change...
The sitter is off this week so I am exhausted and going to bed now. :)
2 comments:
Hi Nance - so good to read your blog. Glad Tara visited, and you re-connected with Nate. I shall start one as soon as I study how to do it. You and Jil will be so proud!
Mom
nice job Nancy, Loved the story line and the characters are my favorites. Dad M
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