Here it is, Wednesday, the middle of the week already and the second full moon after the winter solstice.

The days are getting longer. And warmer. It was a beautiful spring day today, mid 70s and sunny - the kind of "winter" weather that makes you glad you live in Atlanta.

Yesterday, as you could tell from the previous post, was L.'s birthday. I arranged for a bouquet of roses and lilies to be delivered to her at work, and bought her a Japanese vase as a birthday present. I offered to take her out to dinner at Bachannalia, but she wasn't feeling quite 100% and requested that we make it some other night when she felt better and could enjoy it more.

No problem.

Instead, we went to the movies and saw "Bad Education," the new Almodovar. According to IMDB.com, Almodovar attended a Catholic boarding school in the 1960s where some of his fellow students were abused by priests, although he asserts that he himself wasn't. However, he spent 10 years writing the script for "Bad Education," which is based upon a short story he wrote as an adolescent about his experience at boarding school. "Bad Education," then, is about the making of a fictional movie about the experiences of two former boarding school students. In the movie, the script was written by one of the former students and directed by the other. Not to give anything away, but obviously the clergy doesn't come out looking too good in the film.

But anyway, L. and I had a great birthday night together. We had spent some of Sunday afternoon together over lunch and shopping after the morning service at the zendo, and Monday she showed up at the evening service and we had dinner (take-out Thai) at her place afterwards. Saturday, I stopped over and helped her clean her place up for an office party she was hostessing.

As I'm writing, the rumble of thunder outside signals an approaching storm. I should have known this pleasant weather was too good to last.