in an article that i read in a health and fitness magazine last week, i found that the all-important pilates workout session can be maximized by sitting in borders an hour beforehand, with hot chocolate, feverishly copying little appliqué patterns out of a nicky epstein book. (hey, these magazines are available to everybody -- you do the legwork.)
since october was highlighted by some very splashy and autumnal events -- the very fall-themed wedding of our friends, and an afternoon of pumpkin picking, ice cream eating, carousel-riding and loudly singing hebrew songs for an hour in the car with a considerably younger set of friends, i have made both sets of friends a little album, with photos from those events included. i haven't handed them over yet, so don't think of the surprise as "ruined" so much as "current".