Ezra and I have lately been engaged in our normal summertime activity of reading Harry out loud to each other. I have to admit, though, that I’ve been doing most of the reading this time. I love to read it… It’s addictive or something. We re-read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix first–to refresh our memories since so much happens in that book–and now we are in the midst of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I’m enjoying it immensely. In just a few hours when Ez is home and we’ve had our dinner and everything, we will likely be reading it again!

On the “what I’m reading on my own” tip, I carry Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem with me to the gym. It’s slow going just reading it at the gym, but it’s really quite good. Ezra read one of his other books, The Fortress of Solitude, and he really liked it. I will have to read that one as well, because it sounds excellent.

We saw Rita, Brian, Cheri, Matt, and Kirsten last night… for the first time in ages (well, it was the first time I actually got to meet Matt in person!). It was really nice to see everyone. Ladies, if you’re reading this (that means you, Cheri!)–hello, dears! I don’t expect that Matt and Brian ever drop in here, but I could be wrong! Hello everyone! Anyway… a lovely rainy night in a pub was had by all. AND Ez and I were finally able to give Rita the life-size Austin Powers talking effigy we’ve been meaning to give her for about a year now. It was truly a memorable evening. (K. Bates, unfortunately, had a migrane and had to stay home. Literally, a raincheck, for we must get together soon.)

Kim’s Virginia shower is this weekend. I’ve been cooking up a storm in preparation–trying out recipes and whatnot. A little while ago I made yummy scones (not really hard to do!), and last weekend Ez and I worked on our egg salad recipe. Mmm. Food.

A few weekends ago, we went to the DeCordova Sculpture Park in Lincoln with our wonderful friends Amy and Doug. It was one of the first nice days we’d had weather-wise in a long time. It was much fun to wander around the sculpture park, and I took entirely too many pictures, of course. We realized after a bit that we were all pretty dehydrated, though. Afterward we went to see Broken Flowers, which was pretty good–definitely worth seeing. And then we wandered in restlessness unable to be decisive on dinner… which was I think one part tiredness (at least, on my part), several parts too-nice-ness (everyone deferring to everyone else), one part not-knowing-too-much-about-the-area, and several parts general lack-of-decisiveness and wander-ment. Anyway, it was a lovely evening, and I was happy to be out among friends. When hunger took over, we ended up having just the nicest dinner and drinks at Laurel on Berkeley Street in Boston. Thank you (a bit late) Amy and Doug!

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