Pretty darn proud

On our girls night out Kate came up to the Museum to have dinner with me and hear our good friend Richard Ellis talk about Polar Bears and their status as endangered animals. I was amazed that kate agreed to come and it had to do with the fact that she loves Richard more than anything else. She is highly ambivalent about the Museum, inspite of the fact that she is virtually growing up in this place, and often blows off any attempt on my part to involve her in coming here to see new exhibits, go to lectures, or participate in programs, etc. When she does come, she has a great time but the effort of luring her in is often tedius. She and I both had a good time. The next morning when I asked about how her HUR class was shaping up, she said, "Oh, it's boring and we're talking world issues like global warming." "But," I said, "we just went to a lecture about global warming." "No, it was about Polar Bears!"

I took the day off yesterday and had time to have a leisurely breakfast, play with Miss Murray, to the gym after the early morning rush there and Miss Murray and I walked kate to the Bus stop. Always makes me feel very suburban but of course if that were true I'd be driving rather than walking. At 12 noon I met Arnie and we went to her parent teacher meeting with her advisor Eric Quinones. He said this will be simple and easy: She's doing a great job. Everybody knows and loves Kate. She is doing well socially and academically. She is doing well in every subject and I'm happy to hear that she loves Latin.

How can you not qvell....?

Arnie and I went on to enjoy a celebratory lunch together at some wildly esoteric restaurant that I could find by using Google directions. Freemans restaurant is down on the lower east side tucked into an alley that runs off of Rivington Street. when you finally get there it's like being in a London mews. I thought immeidately: oh oh too charming and so the food will be terrible. But the food was really excellent and I would go back again providing that I could do it during the week at an off time. Then we ducked into a New Museum down on the Battery. A totally satisfying day.

Today we are going to take Kate and Grandma Dot out for a celbratory dinner to acknowledge her good work in school which is basically life...