Birthday and General Insanity

My birthday celebrations turned out to be quite lovely, in a sort of classically absurd manner. The family party, scheduled to go from 2-4, started at 1, and people were still around just after 4, when we left home to go to East Rock for my party with friends. Although I ran out, basically, so that no one would get to East Rock and be totally puzzled as to where we were, none of my guests showed up until about 4:30 or 4:45, where, classic to the way these things work, my guest coming from the furthest away showed up. Nevertheless, there was food, conversation, word games, and a lot of general fun. Afterwards, we kept my best friend from growing up with us at home for snack and hang-out time en famille, as it were. It was tremendously good to see him again (of course I haven't since before I left for Israel- not knowing that he's home, doing an internship and some other work locally, this summer) and to catch up. His girlfriend is also local these days- she's doing a PhD at Yale, and the last time I saw her was when I met her, about 3 years ago. So now I can look forward to a chance to actually get to know her some this summer.

Today: wedding rehearsal, a bit of my sister's bachelorette party, and a Shabbat with H amidst my family.