I've mentioned it on Facebook, but I'm probably going to be telling as many people as I can in whatever arenas present themselves for the next couple of years: I HAD ABSINTHE!!! On Sunday, the Salisbury group went for dinner to this lovely Mexican place. We were browsing through the alcohol list when Helen spotted that they had absinthe. Without further ado, six of the eight of us, me included, ordered shots. (The waitress raised her eyebrows, and the waiter/bartender came over just to make sure that that was what we really wanted. "Do you have this stuff for breakfast, then?" he asked.)
Not for breakfast. Just for AWESOME TIME!!!
When we got back, we went - oh, lord, where HAVEN'T we gone? Monday we just walked around - I took her to the Bodleian, and we sat on benches in the Divinity School (which they used for the hospital wing in Harry Potter). Tuesday we went to Blackwell's and found a copy of this version of "The Lady of Shalott," which I credit with turning us both into Tennyson lovers:
We also went to the Botanic Garden on Tuesday. They marked Tolkien's favorite tree on the map, and looking at it is like reading his mind when he conceived of Ents and mallyrn. (There's also a tree there that was planted during the English Civil War!) And we saw Will and Lyra's bench. I'd never really had a clear picture of what that looked like, but the minute we saw it, I could imagine everything from that scene, down to where everyone would stand and where Will cut the window through into Lyra's Oxford.
*If you don't know what I'm talking about - go find "The Golden Compass." Now. Read the series. Cry until you can't cry anymore. Then we'll talk.*
And yesterday, Helen got to go see "Julius Caesar" at the RSC! (Yes, the one I raved about.) As of right now, I haven't talked with her about it. I cannot wait to hear what she thinks!
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