In Which There Is A Lot of Food in Our Fridge

I spent a good chunk of Friday in the kitchen, as I had a rather substantially sized (for me) Shabbat lunch here- the first time that I have hosted a meal here (roommate 1 had a meal a couple weeks ago, and the other hosted a small dinner which I attended Friday night, but this was My first).  The guests included a college friend, a JTS friend, hotshot2000 , both roommates, the guest who was staying with us through one of said roommates, a friend I met here through zodiacmg , and a young man I met Wednesday night who needed a place for Shabbos lunch.   Somehow this wildly random crowd managed to have what seemed like quite a nice time, and there was sufficient food to go around- and also to leave us with a significant amount of leftovers for the week, which I am quite pleased about.  Lunch was primarily salads and then dessert, following my usual inability to think in terms of a main dish, but plates were full, and things went well.  After we finished eating, a good number of folks adjourned to play games in the living room, and I and another friend hung out and talked, and someone else managed to nap on our couch, just a yard or two away from the folks with the game.  The shabbos nap is a very powerful thing, that way. 

After Shabbat, I walked over to another friend's house and watched the first Harry Potter movie in Hebrew with a delightful mix of people, talked for a while afterwards, and then walked home and even had company for much of my walk.  It meant that I got home rather later than I perhaps should have before the first day of school for the week, but oh well- tonight I will hopefully call home and then go to bed early.