So, yesterday was all about seeing as many friends as I could and spending as much time with them as I could without being perfunctory.

First was my friend Teri, whom everyone has called Terese for the last twenty years or so, but I just cannot get used to it. Last year when I saw her she had just separated from her husband of ten years, and this year she is divorced.

It was a big difference. Last year she was happy that they were separated, but it was still a huge change, and they have a little girl. There was quite an adjustment to be made, and she was still in mourning for the relationship as it used to be. This year she had started her new life and had relaxed into it. She was all confident and shiny-eyed, it was lovely to see.

I had got her a meditation candle for new beginnings, which I thought appropriate, and she got me four floating candles and a bowl to float them in.

After seeing her, I saw Sally Ann, a friend from high school. We got back in touch at the reunion, though we were never very pally at school, and decided to see each other at my vacation.

And we did! We had steaks and mashed potatoes and talk, the best kind of lunch.

So, I had a breakfast date with Teri and a lunch date with Sally Ann. I felt like such a high-school slut when I got home, what with having an early date and a late date, but there was a call from Melanie to return, and we decided that if I was ever going to see the kids, I had better do so that very little minute, so I actually had a third date!

I guess that I could teach a high-school slut a thing or two!

I went over to her house and saw the kids and took their pictures (otherwise what on earth would I give her next Christmas?). Katherine is 11, and, like Katie suddenly turned from a child into a teenager. They both look 16, and not because of their clothes or wearing makeup or anything, but the sort of easy maturity on their faces. I don't remember anyone looking so grown-up when I was that age.

Wait, actually I do. There are kids that I remember looking about my age now, but they were ten or twelve. It may well be a trick of memory, but I don't know.

All of the kids are getting so big and so old. They say that kids grow so fast, that the years go by in a blink. I think that is only true with kids that you don't see all of the time, because the Callahans are taking just forever to grow up. Melanie's kids, though appear to be shooting up like weeds because I'm not watching every second.

After all this sociability, did I go home and collapse? Nope, I went to a screening!

Quills was playing at the Academy, so I went over there and sat down in my seat and the movie started and some very modern music was playing, and I thought, "Uh-oh, this doesn't seem like music belonging to a period film about the Marquis de Sade..."

And I was right, 'cause there was Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni and it was Family Man.

Now, I wouldn't have minded, except that I already saw Family Man, and I really wasn't that into seeing it again. I don't think that I ever told about seeing it the first time, though, so now I have the opportunity.

It's not a bad film, it's just a little trite and pat and corny, but the performances are just right on. Nicolas Cage is incredibly strong, always playing two layers of a character who is trying to find his way in this strange new life. Tea Leoni also was marvelous playing someone with only the one reality--it is hard to act as though you truly haven't a clue what is going on when you, the actor, have in fact read the script.

Worth seeing, but try not to see it twice--see Quills at least once instead. Or State and Main.

Today's horoscope:
You're inclined to do too much today--because you suspect others wouldn't be as responsible. Be productive, but don't overdo it!

One year ago today:
"Boy howdy, do I ever want to fuck that."

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