When we got our food he seemed to make a point of offering me some of his food and then I offered him some of mine. Also, there was an adorable dog at the table behind us who kept trying to nuzzle an adorable little boy at the table next to us and B and I laughed about it. later he told me that when I was in the bathroom, when the little boy and his dad sat down at the table next to us, the dad picked up the little vase of flowers and shoved them under the little boy's nose and said, "smell this!!!" and the little boy said, "I *knew* you were going to do that!" And B smiled a lot and said that they had a good [father-son banter] thing going on.

I also told him about my new business plan (!!!) [NEWS FLASH: I just had my first paid session with a real student a few days ago!!!!!! She is so awesome, a private school goth who loves to talk about geometry with me]. I hadn't told him anything about it but I explained the technology I'm using. He asked me if I'll be using paypal and then we talked for a while about the pros and cons of that and how I'm finding out that getting paid online is actually really complicated. He also asked about my web design plan and I told him i was planning to hire a good designer, and he told me what he's learned from making websites for himself and his quartet, and their plans to hire a designer. I also mentioned that my business-planning-partner has encouraged me to charge a lot more than I'm currently charging, and that I'm excited for how that could completely change my life. And that I'll be interested to see how if money is no longer as much as an issue, how that will affect my desire to go to longy school or not. (he didn't ask me what my plans were as he usually has, and I think that's because i pre-emptively told him I still didn't really know what they were).

He also told me some really awesome news. He got a call from his friend who contracts the musicians for the Mark Morris Dance Group, a modern dance group in NYC. (B LOVES Mark Morris and I do too--when we were still together we watched one of his performances and we both cried). So Mark Morris's contractor contracted B's quartet to play the fourth bartok string quartet for a particular dance piece. And they're performing together this summer! If it goes well, the quartet might get to play with the dancers every time they perform this particular piece. Amazing, B's dreams are coming true!!!