It's been damp and foggy here with crazy temperatures around the country. It was far colder in Los Angeles this morning than New York. It's the new weather but  I often feel as if I've stepped into a scene from Blade Runner however the smells right now are of crushed Christmas tree which makes everything really wonderfully pungent.

Kate and I went to an open house yesterday at the Carlysle Hotel for her Summerfuel language immersion program in Nice. Oh, my god, her July is going to be so golden and every adult who knows about the program just starts salivating. I think she began to understand that it isn't going to be Maine in french when we stepped into the lobby of the Carlysle. Now she worries that everybody will be rich and snobby. I reminded her that in some circles she might be considered snobby...if not rich.

Went out to lunch today with some folks from the Middle School downstairs which was one of my first purely social outings..We went to the Jerusalem cafe which I knew would be small but I had no idea it would have only 8 seats and they would all be taken which made it imperative that we sit at the counter or run back to the school and try to find a quiet place to eat. Hummus, hummus and more baba ganoush. Everything that I like but eat so rarely. And why is that?