Let’s start with the good news. I did succeed in:

• Seeing the Toulouse-Lautrec and Lichtenstein exhibits at the National Gallery
• Making strawberry shortcake
• Watching a good number of baseball games on tv
• Getting to the farmers’ market
• Putting a new water filter on the kitchen faucet
• Doing some cleaning around the Burrow
• Buying batting gloves and a pot and soil for the tomato seedling
• Watching Bridget Jones II — it started off terrible, but got better after it moved to Thailand (and the Bridget Jones-Colin Firth interview in the bonus feature was very funny
• Knit about 64 rows on my current project

On the other hand, I did not succeed in:

• Buying a couch
• Getting out on the bike — just too hot for me
• Potting the tomato
• Going to the Pride parade — again, too hot
• Watching Kitchen stories
• Enjoying the exhibits at the National Gallery — it was just too crowded (a friend compared it to standing on the Metro at rush hour) and I forgot I don’t particularly care for Toulouse-Lautrec’s style (although the rooms that focused on how TL and his contemporaries portrayed the same subject were interesting)
• Making the apartment look like we’d done any cleaning

I don’t know. It just seems like the weekend should have been better than it was. Too many expectations, I suppose. But this week holds the promise of a sneak preview on Thursday and cooler weather towards the end of the week, so I suspect I will lose the funk that’s been hovering over me since August temperatures arrived a week ago.