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Jun 7 03: checking in
Right. Another couple of weeks go by. If I were sure there were anyone out there reading this, I’d wonder if I was worrying my audience. The upside of this, of course, is that when I don’t post anything for two weeks it’s generally because I’ve been too busy to check in. Last weekend, I was in Vegas for John’s bachelor party. Oh yes. We stayed at the Tropicana, whose glory days have passed but whose rooms are plenty clean and suitably cheap. This weekend I’m in Ithaca—not for the John-Kathleen wedding, which is next week, but for Cornell Reunions. It’s not my reunion year. The only reason I’m here is because my friend Heather is in from Sydney and demanded that I meet her for a drink, which I have now done. Don’t know if I’ll make it back up the Hill at all this weekend. Paul and I are staying with Tom and Genevieve. The house is full of animals: two dogs and two cats in permanent residence, plus a pair of (very cute and fluffy) kittens being fostered for a week or two. Charming little fluffballs. Genevieve continues to be a drop-dead fabulous cook.
The week between the weekends featured a visit from an aunt and uncle, in from California; and then Mom arrived in Long Island for a week of ‘helping out the new parents,’ which you can read as ‘making goo-goo noises at my new granddaughter.’ I went out there on Thursday to see them all. Avery is doing fabulously. At last weigh-in she was 5 pounds 12 ounces, which sounds like not so much at all but is still a pound-and-a-half more than she weighed at birth, just five weeks ago. We are very proud of her. She’s beautiful and endlessly fascinating, which is no mean feat given that she doesn’t do much beyond eating and sleeping and making little creaky noises. Her actual due date is next weekend. I feel like we should throw her some sort of ‘supposed to be your birthday’ party.