A Nice Day!...

It's started to get very warm here during the day, it's cracked the 90's already. But this morning, I opened the windows and was greeted with a gust of deliciously cool air! I switched off the fan and just threw the windows open wide. Ahhh. Perfect 70 degree gusts of cool breeze in my 73 degree apartment. Even the air looks semi-clear and you can see the horizon between sky and sea. Boy, this is the life. I'd better enjoy it before pre-monsoon heat waves kick in.

Today, I finally have nothing pressing to do (or at least, I can schedule myself a break) so the paints are coming out. It couldn't be a nicer day for it, I'll have the windows open wide to let all the light in, at least until the sun swings westward and heats things up.

Lacking an easel, I'll have to use my coffee-fueled brain to come up with some resourceful alternatives. I'llll just... get to that script reading... later in the evening when the sun goes down. Yeah. That's a good plan. :)

News from L.A. is good - Amit wrapped on Friday and says he is very happy with most of what went into the can. (That means it's excellent.) He had a brilliant Director of Photography who inspired him as well. Telecine on Saturday was "a disaster" (direct quote), the colorist apparently had no idea what he was doing, so they walked out. Sunday he had a day off, and went to church with Dyball. Editing starts Monday, and they'll try again for telecine then too. He'll be staying on a few extra days to cram some meetings in, which is wonderful. (I had hoped to do this in December, before he had to return to Bombay for a shoot.) So he should be back in a week now.

I feel like I've managed quite well without him, thanks in great deal to Tanya and Karan, our best friends here, and it's been nice having my own way all the time. ("Tonight I want to watch... a musical!" or "For dinner, I'm just going grill some veggies in garlic and butter.") But make no mistake, I'll still be leaping for joy when he gets back!

Speaking of dinner, Kathryn's Mushroom Risotto has been a hit everywhere I've made it. Karan in particular had been drooling over distant memories of the time I made it here. So last night, I had them over, and fortunately, the risotto lived up to the memories of its glorious past. Kathryn, you got any more stove-top recipes for me?? I'm looking to expand my repertoire!