Thursday 11/28/2024
It’s a holiday so I get to do what I want, right? No imagination. I went down to the dining room to pick up my sack supper at 8:30. Then off for a walk to Midtown where I had a snack and walked back, so, 3.5 miles for the day.
Lunchtime was the dining services fancy presentation, with a table of little puff pastries and deviled eggs at the entrance, a glass of wine if you wanted it (I took sparkling cider instead), and a fancy menu. I had been invited to join Mildred, Florrie, and Phil and a couple others at a table. Phil, who lives at the opposite end of the 6th floor, has had a rough time lately. His wife has been in skilled nursing for some time, barely aware. Then a couple weeks ago Phil got Covid, which developed into pneumonia so he had to be in the hospital. He came back from the hospital three days ago to our skilled nursing, where I gather he was next door to his wife, who died in the night. Now he’s back in some degree of health and back on the 6th floor, at any rate. And seemed chipper enough at lunch.
At 3pm I was invited to a party on the 11th floor. This was mostly a big family bash for Gloria’s family. Gloria is Chinese so of course the majority of the guests were of Chinese extraction, but she had invited a lot of Channing House neighbors too. Of course the haoles all congregated at a couple of tables, but you know? Gloria could have worked harder at mixing people up, too. Anyway I stuck around for 45 minutes and made conversation and had a wine and a coffee, then split.
At 5:45 I took my sack supper down to the dining room and there were only four of us, total. I guess a lot of people had been invited out to family parties. Or just were partied-out.
Codgerville 