Encountering Lisa

I met up with Lisa yesterday. She stays in NYC with Laura, a friend of her, pending a hearing of her complaint about her UK visa refusal. After some general hanging about in galleries, and even more general watching the old (Dutch) masters, we waded through Central Park and I got to see fireflys for the first time. Fireflys must be one of the coolest inventions in nature ever. It's even more spectacular when you run into a tiny swarm (though they don't appear to be the swarming kind of insects, in general).

A bit later, we went to a piano bar near Times Square where some of the Broadway washouts are reputed to hang out. As one might expect, they were rather excellent (and funny!) singers. Most of the songs were Broadway classics, and most of the singalongs were entirely unknown to me, but smiling and mumling melodically gets you a long way when you don't know the words.

It came to my attention during the evening that Laura had worked for IBM Research at Hawthorne about six years ago. She now works for Sotheby's. Small world, eh?

Update:Lisa's appeal went through. She's now in the UK with her fiancé.