Greetings Bookworms!
It was wonderful to be together at Blu Fig for another lively discussion, dinner, and friendship. We were served by a blond beauty with a BMI of about 22.5. There were some early birds, and some latecomers. Sigh. Don would have approved of the wine.
The Rosie Project had many themes -- love, friendship, dating, change, rule breaking, Aspergers, connections to others, and trust - to name a few. While we waited for everyone to arrive, those of us that hadn't taken the Rosie Quiz did so. We had three "Rosies" in our group - Mary, Maria Rego, and Myrna. There were three Claudias (Gene's wife) -- Yvette, Irene, and Lourdes. If you haven't taken the quiz yet, click here to take it! I was quite distressed to turn out as "Don", and I'm going to retake the test and study harder this time. Just because I was wearing a jacket - a nice Gortex one - green and extremely useful too -- and because I don't have a lot of friends? OY! Don was way more organized than me -- organizationally challenged human that I am!
We talked about some of our favorite scenes from the novel. Some liked the bar scene best, and others the restaurant fight in the beginning. I laughed out loud thinking about Don dancing with his skeleton, in anticipation of the upcoming Bianca date, without music. We discussed things that make us happy - many of us (the majority) love relaxing time spent at the beach, while others enjoy time alone in Barnes and Noble (Nicole), one LOVES ballroom dancing (Maria R.), and one of us NEEDS to be outside hiking somewhere/anywhere - a mountain, a beach, a forest - any outdoors place will do (me). Romantic movies we liked included The Notebook, Shining Though, Annie Hall, and The Way We Were.
Dating memories - some disasters - were also discussed. It seems there are many socially clueless males out there besides Don! I envied Don's organized dinners and his shopping outings - no wasted food - unlike my refrigerator - full of science experiments waiting to get thrown out. All in all we laughed and enjoyed each others company, and I'm very grateful to have all of you to enjoy this time together. How wonderful to have our new members Jill and Myrna, joining us, and we were thrilled to see Nicole again, after an extended absence.
Let's plan to see the movie together when it comes out. Have a wonderful thanksgiving my friends, and I look forward to seeing you next month.
XXOO --
Love,
Robin
P.S. I retested myself today on the quiz, and came out as Claudia. Phew.
