Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

Around noon today, I came back to my computer after playing Scrabble to find a message from porcinea asking if I could make it to dim sum. Well, it would take me a while to get there. She had no problem with that, and we agreed to meet at Jing Fong (20 Elizabeth) at 1:30. Much good food, possibly too much, but I introduced her to bacon-wrapped shrimp, and we had two orders of those flaky pastries filled with roast pork, and I got really fresh hot water chestnut cakes.

Then we walked up to the West Village, continuing to talk, and did some window shopping. She bought whole bean coffee, I bought a cup of tea, and we rendezvous'd with elissaann, and walked to a place called Point, which combines yarn/knitting shop with cafe. The young man running it liked us, because we were serious about chocolate. At one point, I mentioned that I didn't want to take up knitting while I was still finding my way with another new-to-me craft, jewelry making. By luck, I was wearing the wandering wire earrings I'd made when elisem taught me a bit of the technique, so I was able to show them to him.

It had been too long since I'd been for dim sum; I should do this more often.

*Spending time with my beloveds is wonderful and necessary, but feels like it's a different category: in that sense, this is the second social thing I've done since getting back from Montreal, the other being having roadnotes over.