Reasons to be Cheerful

[StephanieL]

Got 2 free bags of Anson Mills Carolina Gold rice at the potluck we went to yesterday!

[StephanieL]

N GOT TENURE AT LAST!!!!

[Sneakeater]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sneakeater]

YAY N!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[voyager]

👏👏👏👏👏    Give her a hug from us!

[small h]

4 hours ago, StephanieL said:

N GOT TENURE AT LAST!!!!

[Wilfrid]

Happy day ❤️

[StephanieL]

Thank you, everyone.  What a relief.

[bloviatrix]

I'm so thrilled for her - I know preparing for it is extremely time consuming and stressful. I hope you do something to celebrate.

[StephanieL]

18 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

I'm so thrilled for her - I know preparing for it is extremely time consuming and stressful. I hope you do something to celebrate.

We'll do some small things now--she doesn't want anything big until the summer.  How nice that that coincides with our Copenhagen trip. 🙂

[Wilfrid]

Yesterday was the perfect day to be blessed with extraordinary weather. I had brunch with a friend in Long Island, outdoors on a patio watching ducks on the lake. Then a browse through the Nassau Museum of Art and a wander around its outdoor sculpture gardens. The grass was a little too soggy to tackle the nature trails. I didn't need my jacket.

Imagine doing any of that the previous day, Saturday, with the cold, relentless rain.

[bloviatrix]

It's a lovely small museum. The grounds are great.

[Wilfrid]

New to me. Lovely exhibit on “The Gilded Age,” and I had not realized the extent of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s work as an artist, not a piece of glass in sight.

[bloviatrix]

Played tennis this morning for the first time in forever. I'm going to be so sore tomorrow but it felt great to be out there.

[Wilfrid]

But it’s okay, the sources of trauma resolved themselves, quick intervention with anti-inflammatories calmed my arthritis and I had a wonderful day with the new Himalayan artists at the Rubin and, improbably, a fantastic show about sleeves at FIT.

[small h]

https://gothamist.com/news/lirr-commuter-classic-tracks-bar-to-be-mtas-first-grand-central-madison-tenant

I miss the old one. Not that I went that often, but I miss it anyway, and I look forward to not going to the new one that often, but enjoying it when I do.

[Sneakeater]

It took me a long time to convince myself I could eat raw shellfish in Penn Station and not die.  But I could, it finally turned out.

I never had such misgivings in Grand Central proper.  But then, Grand Central proper isn't disgusting like Penn Station.

Edited March 24, 2024 by Sneakeater

[Wilfrid]

That new Penn Station with its bars and dining options is a new Penn Station.

[Sneakeater]

Yeah obvs I'm not talking about Moynihan.

[bloviatrix]

Kids went undefeated and won the March Madness Squirts C group championship in double OT. They played amazingly well and left everything out there on the ice. I'm so proud of all them. And the boy came thisclose to scoring his first goal of the season but ended up with the primary assist.

[small h]

15 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

It took me a long time to convince myself I could eat raw shellfish in Penn Station and not die.  But I could, it finally turned out.

I had conveyor belt sushi in Penn Station, and here I still am, mostly.

[Wilfrid]

Because it’s something like 72F, walking out in a t-shirt and up to Washington Heights to Penny Jo’s, a cocktail bar with big, sunny windows, drinking my first Clover Club in many years, then wandering back down the hill finding many people so happy and smiling in the sunshine.

 

[StephanieL]

Our favorite tiki bar hosted a Gosling's Black Seal Rum tasting, with Emily Gosling (8th-generation owner) running the show. We had 2 cocktails (N had mocktails) and tastings of 5 different Gosling's rums.  Those of us who bought bottles were allowed to take home one of their RTD Dark & Stormy cans and taste a special blend that's only available at one particular hotel in Bermuda.

[backyardchef]

My wife was just offered a managerial position at the Frick Collection. So proud of her and so excited! 

[Wilfrid]

Congratulations.