reunion

that's a new dessert from starbucks (new to me, anyway. i generally used to go for either the chocolate eclair or waffle with cream and strawberry or a clone of italianni's tartufo).

they call it a strawberry cheescake, but its more a fusion of cheescake (the lowest two levels) and a strawberry mousse on sponge cake (the upper two layers) glued together by strawberry jam.

suffice to say that i like it.

but that's not what this post is actually about.

anyway, she is one of those souls who were on the good ship 557 nueve de pebrero which at one point was sailing towards a date with some kind of destiny that was not to be -- courtesy of some ex-disney icebergs.

interestingly enough, she was the p.a. to the first director of the outfit; and then departing to come back as a liason to the animation council something-or-other.

either way, but more often in her latter role, we would have coffee breaks near the pantry - i'd have coffee, she'd have coffee and her smokes...

shooting the breeze with her was a particularly pleasant way to while away the time...

she departed for good; quite a whiles later the good ship foundered on the rocks of, oh, good intentions perhaps, but most likely sterling incompetence on the part of the captains thereof.

we've been in text contact on and off these past few years, and have met at least once in the intervening period. in the interim, she's had the recent expression of a genetic disorder that was (and probably remains) life-threatening; but is now under some sort of control by medication.

turns out that (and isn't this sometimes the case) it could have been worse; but as it stands, life can be good.

chance had it that she was going to the town center one fine day; and so we had a lunch meet - and i had that dessert during the time we spent.

...and it was a three-hour lunch, so to speak.

a pleasant reunion to be sure.