Tom & Alissa

Truth be told, this hasn’t been my week, between the sickness and some of my own strange floundering. I sat ripping pages out of a notebook and scribbling on them, then folding them up and frowning for two hours on Monday. That pretty much sums me up right about now.

But, the sunny weather beckons with beauty and life and the small things I do so love. If only one could make a living just appreciating the small things. Maybe I should become a socialite.

Anyhow, the weather has been truly lovely and it does me good to see it. On Tuesday night I got home and Tom whisked me off to buy some salami and ham and apple chutney and mayonnaise for sandwiches, and we ate on the roof and watched the planes fly over and under the moon, then came inside when it got too cold and watched Down By Law, which was made wonderful by the very presence of Roberto Benigni (what is he doing in this strange little Jarmusch movie?).

And last night Tom poached some eggs and toasted some ciabatta and cooked some pancetta and blanched some white asparagus, and somehow it all came together and was elegant and savory. And we watched Closer.

I may actually take a lunch break today and eat something outside. It’s too nice to be cooped up under fluorescent lights without a small recess.