We're back from Brooklyn. Got home last night around 9:00.

Helene's birthday dinner was interesting for me. it was populated by designers from her days at Parson's. We met one guy, spouse of a Parson's grad, who runs a website revolving around scopitones.

We enjoyed Brooklyn. It's the first time I've gone to New York and not spent the majority of my time in Manhattan. So that was a nice change -- exploring new parts of the city.

Saturday we met Molly and Larry's son, Foss, who is three months old. Babies make me nervous. If they're crying I don't want to hold them, figuring their parent is probably better at comforting them. Then when they're quiet I don't want to hold them for fear of making them cry again. We hung out at Molly and Larry's Brooklyn apartment for a few hours with a trip to the neighborhood park at the end. Luckily as we were leaving Foss was calm enough for me to give him a kiss without freaking him out. He is so adorable with those big Molly/Larry eyes. It's amazing to see something so big that was in your friend's uterus 12 weeks ago. She said he's grown six inches since he was born. Still, six inches shorter = too big to come out of my friend's, er, birth canal. But whatever. They've been going through some rough stuff since he was born. He has some complicated, as-yet-undefined health problems which are necessitating multiple doctor visits every week. I don't know how they do it. Molly and Larry are my first friends who have had more than one baby (their son Henry just turned three years old this week). They were as stressed as you'd expect. We got some quality time with both of them, which was good since this is the first time they've met Drew. He loved them, as I knew he would, and really bonded with their son Henry.

I'd post photos of Foss and Henry, but Drew and I learned the hard way (from his family) that parents aren't super thrilled to have photos of their kids available for anyone to gawk at on the internets. Which makes sense. Drew played with Henry so enthusiastically that Molly said she couldn't believe he was the least bit ambivalent about having kids. I didn't press him about that afterwards, but I know that seeing how much time and energy both boys took and how difficult it is dealing with a newborn only reinforced his own feelings about how hard it is to be a parent.

Shit! It's late!! I have to get to studying. I have about ten hours of work to do today. If I start right now and don't take any breaks I'll be done at 10:26 tonight. Hehe.