ANY GIVEN TUESDAY

both pois café and café tati are closed on mondays, but having missed them just means more reason to go back. kaffeehaus might have been open, but my things had already been deposited in a coin locker at the station beyond the praça de espanha and so it was away from rua anchieta and back to the place on cruzes da sé. and it was probably for the best that i had a tea with my cake instead of a second cup of coffee -- which, if you ask them, they'll serve you in a really big mug at that place on cruzes da sé (just up an easy hill and around a bend from pois). as it was, even after sharing that bottle of wine and having a beer with the sandwiches i made from the bread and things i bought from the convenience store, i was still in a panic at the station throughout the hour i spent between opening the coin locker and finally deciding not to change my ticket. and it's possible that the melancholy of that night has just lingered, or that maybe it's just finally setting in, although it could be too that after passing two consecutive sundays evenings in such oblivious enjoyment it was just time that the melancholy caught up. it sounds as if the architectural association is going to change its name to something less hazardously abbreviated, and at the party i met someone else for whom the city recalls san francisco. and it might also have been the aftereffects of the party, but it's good that today was off for the commemoration of the establishment of the autonomous community of andalusia, because that at least made it easier to explain away not straying too far from bed. for a tuesday, it was almost overwhelmingly infused with that sunday feeling. lucky for me that the things that needed doing needed a day spent not so far from bed. and that may not mean what you think although it turns out after i write it that there's an irony there (although not necessarily in my bed), and although, ironically, it meant not straying too far from bed, i would like the record to reflect that i showed up for my part of the job.