Easter parade

It was a quiet day at home, spent celebrating Easter with my parents, sister, and brother-in-law. We had a nice midday meal of filet mignon and some gorgeous, if a little too hot, weather all day. It’s only within the past hour that it’s started to rain again, hopefully cooling off but not returning to the genuinely chilly weather we had all last week. Today we actually took the covers off the air conditioners, and even used the one in the living room for a while.

Beyond that, I did the Sunday crossword, watched the latest episode of Doctor Who (which I think I may actually want to watch again), and went to the local nursery to buy my mother a plant for Easter. About it, really.

Earth daze

I’m not entirely convinced that today was Friday. Or maybe it was multiple Fridays, all stacked up on top of each other. It was a slow day, whatever it was.

In the lobby of our office building yesterday morning, they were handing out small flower pots, complete with wildflower seeds, in celebration of Earth Day. Which, for some reason, they seemed convinced — to the point of having made up a sign to declare this — was April 21st. Earth Day is, in fact, today, April 22nd — but maybe they just assumed, and not wrongly, that there wouldn’t be enough people in the office on the Friday before Easter, and so they just decided to move things up a day early. I didn’t get a free pot myself, which was sort of disappointing; a guy was still setting them up when I arrived at the office yesterday morning, and by the time I went downstairs for lunch, he and his table were gone. But the whole thing lent today a slight air of confusion: if Earth Day was on a Friday, and the buildings owner was convinced yesterday was the day in question…well, you can see how today might not feel like a proper Friday.

But it’s Easter weekend, and it finally does feel properly like a Friday — albeit one very rapidly approaching its conclusion. I’m looking forward to a nice meal with the family, colored eggs and candy, the whole shebang.

No three- or four-day weekend for me, I’m afraid, but it should be a nice one nonetheless.

Must be a Thursday

What can you say about a Thursday that hasn’t already been said, and better, by people like Arthur Dent? Not a whole lot, as it happens.

We had a short meeting, an informal Q&A really, with our books and journals CEO, who was visiting the New York office. I can’t speak to the later meetings held later in the day, but our early-morning one was surprisingly informative and interesting, giving a nice overview of where we’ve been as a company and where we’re headed.

Right now, though, I’m just headed to bed.