Citizen of the World

In this order, my day ended: art, wine, and good-byes. At work, we have bi-monthly or tri-monthly gallery showings of artworl either from local, national, or collegial artists. Last time around they brought in an installation from a "local" Israeli artist, whose work I found fascinating but macabre. When they have the Friday-night openings in our cafeteria, the Flik staff caters it very nicely. We always have a couple of choices of white and red wines apiece, and lots of hors d'ourvres.

We stand around and chit chat, get toasty and laugh and then go home. But tonight there were TWO happy hours - at the same bar!! At Pound & Pence, one party (essentially mine) met to congratulate a colleague on her new job closer to home and the other party was for a guy who works weekend hardware at the firm (yea, baby!! Lovin yer weekend hardware!!).

So after a few pieces of finger food (hummus, veggies, shrimp, and chicken satay) and three glasses of wine, I said good-bye to a very sweet, wonderful, lively young woman with whom I took great pleasure in working. Sad, toasty, and happy - all in one.