it's a sunny day. the cats are asleep. this morning i baked chocolate chip cookies.
it was a fine weekend. saturday morning we ate breakfast at an infamous greasy spoon on "the corner" called the white spot. it was cheap and good and friendly. its name, by the way, has nothing to do with the color of your skin. there were plenty of brothers sharing the counter with us eating eggs & bacon & homefries & ham & sausage & toast. we took a little walk afterwards and felt like tourists in our own town. we're still getting used to being here.
we came home and undertook a variety of tasks, the best one being the enclosure dan built for loki on our deck. there is a little rectangular offshoot on our deck which dan surrounded and covered with chicken wire. so now loki has space outdoors to walk around and stretch and maybe even climb. the cage he was hanging out in before was just too small.
with each passing day we find his "quarantine" more and more absurd yet we are only a month into it with five more to go.
on saturday night we went to a nice dinner party at marga's house. marga is the director of studies at uva's international residential college. she is also a painter and an all around great person. we met some nice folks, ate delicious food and raised our glasses to the chinese new year.
i worked on sunday and so did dan. tashi spent half the day with me at the barnswallow and the other half of the day with dan on campus. poor kid. she did well though.
last night i watched a sad documentary by michael cacoyannis called Attila 74 -- The Rape of Cyprus. it was a compendium of testimonials from various greek cypriot refugees about the 1974 coup in cyprus followed by the brutal turkish invasion. it included some amazing footage of huge demonstrations that took place in greece and cyprus at the time, and some lengthy interviews with the very decent former president of cyprus (and coup survivor), archbishop makarios. it also included interviews with several of the greek nationalists who really fucked it up for everyone. i highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the cyprus problem and wants to learn more about the events leading to the turkish invasion. be prepared to shed tears with the refugees.
i picked up the documentary at an amazing film rental shop here in charlottesville called sneak reviews. this place rocks. it is a film lovers paradise, plastered with film posters from the kitschy to the historical, with great lighting and furniture and flags and enclaves and a toy box for the kids. the best part is that the films are arranged by director. i really have no reason to go there because dan can rent most films for free from the university library, but every once in a while i'll stop into sneak reviews for the pure joy of it.
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