Most funny/sad vignette heard on Thursday evening – Karen Gadbois arrived at Elizabeth’s on a wind where Laureen Lentz and I awaited her. “You want to hear something great? I was at a planning meeting, and this guy walks up to me, offers his name, credentials and who he’s with and asks who I am. I say to him, ‘I’m Karen Gadbois, a citizen attending this meeting.’ The man replies, ‘Oh, just a citizen, huh?’ and then begins to apologize and recant because that’s ‘not how he meant it.'”
Laureen and I rattled Elizabeth’s we laughed so hard. What else can you do within this sham of a “democratic process” called planning in New Orleans? Too late, dude. Perhaps it isn’t apparent to you, but that Freudian slip has been sticking out from under your collective skirt for many moons now.
To finally meet Laureen Lentz was a pleasure; she is a phenomenal woman who runs her wisp of a self ragged over preservation and other issues in this town. Catch her Metroblogging New Orleans and at her very own site, New Orleans Renovation.
Has anyone else noticed that sleep – a good restful sleep, not just 8 hours of nocturnal recline – is a precious commodity in post-K New Orleans? There is also sleeping too much and being tired from that exercise, but that hasn’t happened since September of 2005. Well, this weekend, I began to practise it. At last afternoon’s Bouligny Riverside Neighborhood Association (BRNA) party to which Adrastos kindly invited bloggers from other neighborhoods (naturally, I wore a red coat), Julie Graybill remarked to a friend and neighbor, “This is Maitri. She’s a very busy person.” Not today – today, I’m attending an estate sale, playing horseshoes at a picnic and cooking dinner. Never mind that it’s a side dish for 7 and I’m driving it and a friend across the river to a dinner party …
If you’re someone like me who can’t slow down, here’s the secret to a restful weekend: Do a lot, but do it on your own time without deadlines and promises. And have fun.
— and have a Badger/Packer weekend!