Periodicity

Well, having maundered on previously about how bleak the restaurant business looks here, I have to say that this last weekend kinda revised things - both the cafe's we visited for brunch over the weekend were busy, and Mimi's (last night) was so full we had to wait for a table.

mind you, after saying a 5 minute wait, we wound up waiting 25 minutes: then, after ordering, we waited a full hour, then walked out without ever seeing any of the food we'd ordered. So if they were busy, I guess it was an unanticipated rush. Oh .. of course, I've just realised Sunday was Fathers Day, so lots more people out doing ritual celebrations (or is it ritual sacrifice, haha)

So maybe that was just a temporary bobble.

It does make me wonder how things are going elsewhere in the world, though. I know from Sarah's comments that Chicago doesn't seem to be much touched, but both New York and DC seem to be hit very hard (per other blogs), and Glynn says west London is suffering a real rash of closing shops, both chains and boutiques. Grim times all over, I guess.

We took the weekend very quietly, otherwise: it was Cat's menses, and in the last couple of years these seem to have been hitting her harder and harder, to the point of writing off at least one day each time to total pain/disability.

Times like this, being a woman just doesn't seem like fun at all: so many of the women I've known seem to have crushing, appalling periods (probably none as bad as Rosemary's, but mostly pretty bad), and it just seems so ... cruel, I guess. Thirty or forty years of that and -then- you get to deal with menopause (and .. menopause? you mean it's gonna start again? ).

Never mind, at least women get to spend some of their time not awash with hormones, unlike men, who seem to always be on a hormone high (or low, depending on your viewpoint). And, yanno, external genitalia aren't the worlds greatest invention either (he said, crossing his legs nervously).

Enough of that for the day. I was going to write something about anger, but that'll keep for another time.