Blast from the Past...

Elysian Lobby Chandie (love!)

S and I had a lovely time in the city last weekend, as I wrote about here.

Funny thing though, when we went to the Elysian for dessert and caps, we ran into an old friend of mine, who is the GM at their restaurant, Ria.

B is my age and was the GM at North Pond Restaurant when I was a hostess there (& lived across the street) in 2003. I was working in consulting by day and hostessing every night to pay for having moved back to Boston in 2002 to work in non-profit development (oh the joyful first few years out of college). We got along very well (he’s a political junkie like me, and a former Hill staffer), but our main connection, besides him being my boss, was that he was the childhood best friend and roommate of my boyfriend at the time (who besides being an actor, was also the bartender at NP). So incestuous and stereotypical, I know.

I left NP later in 2003 to go to law school (which I ended up changing my mind about, unfortunately only after having taken the LSAT). He left at the same time to go to grad school in Madison. A (the bf) and I dated well into 2004, when I realized I needed to get my shit together, we took “a break”, I went from contractor to FT at the consulting firm, and I had a disastrous long distance relationship with a guy I met at my 5 year college reunion. Anywho, so things with the bf didn’t end the way he wanted and the last time I saw either of them (after spending ridiculous amounts of time w/them at work and at their coach house) was around the time I met S. So it was a little strange to introduce him to my husband, though it has been six years...

But he was very gracious and I will likely reach out to him (at some point) to see how A is doing and for help finding S’s brother V a job in the industry when we eventually get him a visa to come over from Dubai (where he manages catering at the Le Meridien Hotel).