Averting an Egging

Didn't do too much today--price shopped for TV's, read e-mail, took Cinder for a walk, watched a dvd of a sad, the elderly Who concert at the Royal Albert Hall, done shortly before John Entwhistle's death. I went in the hot tub to watch a salmon and purple sunset. The dirtiest secret about air pollution is the way it makes the sky beautiful at sunset.

   We went to a work party tonight, which was quite a feat (going to the fete was a feat) since I never want to go to any social gathering and only go because Wendy makes me. This time, however, we went despite the fact there was ample reason not to: Wendy worked, I am getting over being sick, we live so far away, etc. We went because it is against my nature to go. I tend to be a hermit, so it's easy to end my workweek by locking myself up in our little island fortress.

First we went out to a nice date dinner at a pan-Asian place, and then we couhdn't find the place (this has happened at least three times in Seattle, and each time was because there are two sets of numbers on either side of a dividing street). Right after calling for directions, a couple of eggs splatered in front of us. I turned around in time to avoid the other eggs headed our way. I chased the kid for half a block, but I was never close enough to see more than a couple of silhuettes in the street lights. Like most boys their age, they shot their wad too fast and ended up missing both of us, even though they took us totally by surprise.

The party was nice--great food and wonderful mixed drinks--but by following my policy about avoiding work-related conversations at parties, it felt like we had little in common with the other guests. It was pretty intimate in both the size of the apartment and the number of people there, yet it felt like Wendy and I were the odd people out--like everyone knew everyone and some of them knew us. But that's okay since that's pretty much the way I feel at any party I go to, as well as some of the parties I've hosted. It's one of those things that is better for me if I assume everyone pretty much has the same difficulties as me, and that some cope better while others cope worse.