welcome to spring

On Monday morning Sam remarked that it felt very springlike and then yesterday we woke up to this:Which gave me cause to fall in love with my car all over again. I got up at 5am to go to boot camp and just popped it into 4 wheel drive and navigated the unplowed side streets with no problem whatsoever. When I got back from furious exercising at the crack of dawn I put the icing and sprinkles on this:
What is it you ask? Why, it is a 'king cake' - something they make down in Louisiana at mardi gras time. It looks like a large bagel and must be sprinkled with those three sugar colors. You are supposed to bake a plastic baby doll inside and whoever gets it is "king for the day." We didn't have a plastic baby. Oh, and we didn't eat it. Catherine took it to school for extra credit in her French class.

potpourri of activities

Yesterday was a varied and excellent day. It began with some skiing up at Alta with friends. I dashed back down to meet up with another friend to watch a broadcast of the National Theatre's production of King Lear with Derek Jacobi among the fabulous cast. Afterwards we had middle eastern food and then I came home and Craig and I watched Sunshine Cleaning on Netflix. At some point in the car I listened to an interview with Lisa Kudrow and they mentioned a series she has been doing on the internet called "Web Therapy" where she plays a therapist who has "limited patience for other people's problems." She limits her sessions to a few minutes and does them over the web to minimize contact with actual patients. Brilliant. I highly recommend checking it out Ali and Sian!