It being Sunday, I walked to the co-op and bought a few things, then crossed the street to Westman’s Bagels, and took my spot in the long line that you have to wait in, even if you’re buying whole bagels to take home, and not a sandwich.
The line looked pretty much like this when I got there, maybe a tiny bit shorter. Most people had little clipboards with the sandwich descriptions on them, including the couple right in front of me. I had just asked them if it was all the same line, and they had said yes, and we’d all gone back to minding our own business, when I heard the guy say, “I feel really dizzy”, and he went down. The young woman he was with got him sitting/lying down on a kind of wall around a flower bed (I think you can see it in the pic above; it’s red brick), and somebody called 911. First a firetruck came – they always send whatever vehicle is closest – and three EMTs got off the truck to help the guy. Then the ambulance came with several more EMTs. The bagel line briefly parted to let the EMTs in to help the guy out, then closed ranks and got back to ordering bagels.
I enjoyed getting bumped up in the line, but by the time I got home, I felt a little guilty that I hadn’t ordered something for the young woman who is likely to still be sitting in an uncomfortable chair at the ER right now, two hours later.
I got my bagels and walked to the bus stop where there was a lovely view.
In the words of Robyn Hitchcock, “The Space Needle Points to the sky”
I made bagels & fruit salad for breakfast. Half a cinnamon-currant bagel with honey goat cheese, and half a pumpernickel everything with cream cheese and sautéed peppers and Siracha. When eating half bagels, it’s important to divide them across the circumference, so you get both a top and bottom piece.
Saturday I went and worked on campus at UDub – got my eduroam login updated. My laptop did it automatically, but I had to reinstall the profile on my phone. I last used eduroam at TIFF 2017, I think. And, I don’t think I’ve been on campus at University of Washington for close to 10 years, since the trip I made here in fall of 2009. I’ve been here more recently, but just didn’t go to campus. The ramps that go over Montlake Blvd. from the light rail to campus were all new to me. I don’t think the light rail even went to campus in 2009.
Mount Rainier looking like it’s painted on the sky, above reflecting pool at UDub
Thursday I worked at home – I had two meetings to call into, although I felt much more of a participant in the second one than the first. It ended at about 3:00 (almost 5:00 at home) and I went downtown to see On the basis of sex. The movie was playing at AMC Pacific Place 11, which I’m pretty sure is where I saw The Age of Innocence, the first time I was in Seattle. In 1993, before my brother had moved here. I was here for the Museums and the Web conference, or I think actually some kind of precursor to Museums and the Web, to take a digital image workshop with Howard Besser. Anyways, On the basis of sex was just OK – I guess I really need to watch the RBG documentary. I think it’s on Amazon.
Friday I treated myself to breakfast out at Serious Biscuit, one of Tom Douglas’s joints. I did a build your own biscuit with bacon, egg, and pepper relish. And a cup of drip coffee. Then I walked to the Central Branch of the Library and worked there for a couple of hours. On the way home this time I shopped at QFC for the ingredients for this gratin, because my niece was arriving that evening. Since I photographed all those peppers I’d bought at Whole Foods, I wanted to get them eaten. As it turned out we didn’t eat the gratin until Saturday – Friday I had peanut butter toast and Mimi went out, so we had it for dinner after my visit to campus, and it was good then, too.
