Houseguests
We have houseguests from Saturday till Monday. Here is one of them:
They are not technically houseguests, since they are staying at D's parents' apartment (his parents are in Aruba), but close enough. N (pictured above) belongs to D's high school friend A, who is blind, and his wife, B.
A is in the civil service and multilingual. Both he and his wife are learning Thai in preparation for his next post. They want us to visit them there, but I balked at the 23-hour flight. Ugh. If only one could teleport...
After dinner (we went to the Dish, where the owner surprised us with a free slice of chocolate cake), we watched The Station Agent, another Netflix movie. I think I liked it better than anyone. B set the scenes for her husband, explaining what was going on when the dialogue didn't capture it. She would murmur, "Morning. He is on the sofa." Sometimes she would speak in Spanish; she is from Colombia, where they recently visited.
The movie is about a dwarf who moves to Newfoundland, New Jersey after coming into an inheritance, and how he connects with an artist (Patricia Clarkson, from Pieces of April) and a hot dog vendor (Bobby Cannavale, who used to be on SATC and is always fun). I found Michelle Williams horribly annoying...why would you shriek if you saw a dwarf? Otherwise, a good movie.
They are not technically houseguests, since they are staying at D's parents' apartment (his parents are in Aruba), but close enough. N (pictured above) belongs to D's high school friend A, who is blind, and his wife, B.A is in the civil service and multilingual. Both he and his wife are learning Thai in preparation for his next post. They want us to visit them there, but I balked at the 23-hour flight. Ugh. If only one could teleport...
After dinner (we went to the Dish, where the owner surprised us with a free slice of chocolate cake), we watched The Station Agent, another Netflix movie. I think I liked it better than anyone. B set the scenes for her husband, explaining what was going on when the dialogue didn't capture it. She would murmur, "Morning. He is on the sofa." Sometimes she would speak in Spanish; she is from Colombia, where they recently visited.
The movie is about a dwarf who moves to Newfoundland, New Jersey after coming into an inheritance, and how he connects with an artist (Patricia Clarkson, from Pieces of April) and a hot dog vendor (Bobby Cannavale, who used to be on SATC and is always fun). I found Michelle Williams horribly annoying...why would you shriek if you saw a dwarf? Otherwise, a good movie.
Comments
23 hour flight! Aye carumba! I'd probably balk too.
~Belle
I, too, balk at the 23-hour flight. I've already mentioned to several people how necessary a teleporter is. We should totally work on that. :)
If you had a long enough time in SF, I would highly recommend making the effort to go to Chinatown. One of my fave things to do whenever we went. And you can't go wrong with the food. One time in high school we saw a dead pig hanging out on the street (ewww!).
Also, we just got back from New Zealand and it was totally worth the insane flight. I'm sure Thailand is too. Maybe there's someway you can yoga-pose your way through it.
T