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And while it is not Christmas yet it is, however, very much Winter. Outside my window right now I see pine (?) trees capped with snow and other trees (pathetically, I have no idea what they are called) with bare branches. Dusk is nearing, the sky is that eerie shade of Winter blue, and it's just four in the afternoon. Today has been one of those non-days which I desperately needed. And somehow I got Rafe to clean the bathtub, which was in a dire health-hazardous condition. Vince is in the office printing some photographs for this Night of 1000 Drawings event this coming Friday where anyone can submit photos and anyone can buy them for $50 a pop, with all monies going to charity. It's a nice event, very egalitarian. Everyone's an artist! Speaking of art, we all went to the Guggenheim First Fridays party on Friday. The line was wrapped around the block, and once we got in it was packed and there were selling cheese slices and nuts for $9 and $6 respectively. There was an interesting display of Russian art, mostly 18th, 17th century paintings. We spiraled up to the top and back down again and cabbed it all the way home. Kind of a weird night, everyone seemed a bit spaced out...

Yesterday we drove (ok, Rafe drove) to Connecticut to visit Rafe's former au pair, an Iraqi Jew who used to live with his family when he was growing up. He's now married and has kids of his own, and is a very sweet guy so I was easily persuaded to go despite the horrific prospect of spending a whole day in the suburbs. We had a good time, and played some rousing games of Balderdash. I was never one for boardgames (except Pictionary), but this is a good game. We also went to this hibachi restaurant nearby where three out of four patrons were under the age of 6, and the chefs prepared our whole meal before our astonished eyes. The food was ho-hum but the pyrotechnics and knife-whirling were very impressive. Anyhow, this guy had also just adopted baby from Guatemala. It's strange how certain countries are more trendy than others for adopting babies. I wonder what's the hottest kind of baby you can have right now- Sri Lankan? Zambian? Uruguayan? The possibilities are endless. Strange though how there are tons of babies in our own country, and that a lot of Americans won't consider adopting from within but will go thousands of miles away to get one. I suppose all adoption is a good thing but I find it very sad that people from other countries, such as Germany, England, the Netherlands and even Canada for example, are willing to adopt American babies but that a lot of Americans themselves are not. Most of these parents are white and most of the babies are black. There's a very good article about this phenomenon, which is a lot more complex than I've laid out, here

I digress...the Guatemalan baby yesterday was adorable and I want one.