where for art thou, weekend?
It was a whirlwind weekend, but it's Monday morning and already I need to get my butt in gear so that I'll get to work on time. This should be a great week - on Tuesday I am going on a work trip for 3 days to the Armenian hinterlands on a photographic journey. Why haven't I done this sooner?
So let's see, what was I up to this weekend. Friday night was a b-day party (I think I mentioned this but I can't see what I wrote last time just now). Everybody got pleasantly drunk and had a lot of fun. Luckily nobody got injured by the darts. (Who's idea was it to put darts in a drinking establishment?)
Saturday... hmm, I spent much of the day laying around relaxing and recovering. At some point I went to Vernissage to buy a rug I had been eyeing all winter. They were asking too much, and came down finally - so I'm happy. It is a real fun and unique one with great colors. Over a dozen cute little people on it :-) Ara B. had liked it too and came over to see it en situ (sp?). Got some dinner and then we had a huge (read ridiculous) Monopoly game. I think you are not even allowed to play a 10 player game, but we did. Two people never even got to buy a single property, and the house rules were quite strange, but we all had fun nevertheless. There were Barsgahays, Hayastantsis, Americans and Western Armenians. Crazy deals were struck I tell you. After about 6 hours the last survivors declared a draw.
Sunday morning I worked some more on Armeniapedia (as I did this morning). Then I had an extended brunch at Sq1 - where it felt like the old days on the sofa. We all wondered what Rob was up to. Then a really great day at Vernissage, which I had never properly gone in to photograph. It was a perfect day for it, and I got lots of photos I just love. I'd share them but I haven't the time just now. Then an attempted nap, dinner and charagigiutyun with Arlen and then home for a much needed 8-hour sleep.
So let's see, what was I up to this weekend. Friday night was a b-day party (I think I mentioned this but I can't see what I wrote last time just now). Everybody got pleasantly drunk and had a lot of fun. Luckily nobody got injured by the darts. (Who's idea was it to put darts in a drinking establishment?)
Saturday... hmm, I spent much of the day laying around relaxing and recovering. At some point I went to Vernissage to buy a rug I had been eyeing all winter. They were asking too much, and came down finally - so I'm happy. It is a real fun and unique one with great colors. Over a dozen cute little people on it :-) Ara B. had liked it too and came over to see it en situ (sp?). Got some dinner and then we had a huge (read ridiculous) Monopoly game. I think you are not even allowed to play a 10 player game, but we did. Two people never even got to buy a single property, and the house rules were quite strange, but we all had fun nevertheless. There were Barsgahays, Hayastantsis, Americans and Western Armenians. Crazy deals were struck I tell you. After about 6 hours the last survivors declared a draw.
Sunday morning I worked some more on Armeniapedia (as I did this morning). Then I had an extended brunch at Sq1 - where it felt like the old days on the sofa. We all wondered what Rob was up to. Then a really great day at Vernissage, which I had never properly gone in to photograph. It was a perfect day for it, and I got lots of photos I just love. I'd share them but I haven't the time just now. Then an attempted nap, dinner and charagigiutyun with Arlen and then home for a much needed 8-hour sleep.
posted by RK at 8:05 AM
5 Comments:
Hi Raf,
Hope all is well. You always sound so socially busy. It will be fun to meet the people whose names are mentioned in your blog.
In fact, we'll have to start with Arlene and charagigiutyun. Would you care to elaborate ;-)?
Anyways, glad to hear you are having fun and keeping busy. I'm sure your count down is more and more exciting each day.
Have a nice week and I'll send a separate email regarding our upcoming visit.
Love,
Sis
I already replied to your email...
Anyone else out there actually reading this, or am I just excersizing my fingers?
I read...
Hey Raffi,
You could certainly persuade me to repat ... sounds like you all are having a great time out there. Madlene and I went to UCLA together, she's a wonderful girl. If you see her, give her my warmest regards.
Ah, cool. Glad to see ppl are reading this. Not that I have a problem talking to myself, but still.
We do have a good group here, and have a lot of fun - but the more ppl that come, the better! There were so few back in '99.
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