Working backwards

well my biggest "news" is that I tripped on the street last night and slid into the pavement on 86th Street & Madison Avenue. No sprained ankles or wrists but everything went flying and as I went along like a bat, somehow the road came up to meet me. Eureka. I look like a victim of domestic violence or you could ask how the other person looked. I scarped my face and was bleeding profusely. so many really nice people helped me to move out of the way of the number 86 crosstown bus , gave me kleenex to staunch the profuse bleeding and made sure that I wasn't just left on the street. I took a cab up to Island Restaurant to meet Jill and as I was waiting there a man came by to ask if he could help. All so very nice. i had no idea how ghastly I looked until we got to her house. Kate was initially pretty kool and then I think she worried. How could her indomintable mother be dumb enough to trip and rip up her face. And of course today I look increasinly ghastly and have to be at work because we are doing a huge TV shoot for a pilot called Ringer that has the usual crew of 75 plus 240 extras. Pain in the neck but fun.

Kate and I spent one week of her spring vacation in Key West where the weather was 80 degrees and sunny. Oh, so sunny. And Kate has another week of spring vacation which she is spending here in New York where it is raining again. Last week it was cold and snowy. I was thrilled that I was there and not here for that. We rented bikes and toured around all the back streets of Key West and actually I found some areas especially around the Cemetary that I had never seen. I'm thinking 6 months every year in Key West would be great.

The beaches aren't great there and in fact they are man made but by the time we lugged our books down to the water, settled in our beach chairs, we were very happy campers. Every morning we biked to a new breakfast place and then back to the hotel where we installed oursevles by pool or the beach. Kate read 5/6 books on this vacation and me, too. I read all of my books and some of hers. All great. We stayed at the Casa Marina which used to be avery dumpy hotel with dumpy people but it has morphed into a really nice family hotel where all the women of a certain age appear on the beach in one piece black bathing suits while younger women wear bikinis. Made me laugh after I saw the pattern.

But most of all I was glad to get away from the office where I continue to do a Munch silent scream.