the weather today is beautiful, but i can't see it; amandine has chores today, and she has canceled our reservations to the promenade in chesterton-- I finished all that needs to be done, and yet it feels as if I have so much more to do; she visited the other night, and got what she came for, a night's release, but in the morning she had to open shop; later I discover she canceled our plans to dine with her fellow shopkeepers, and told me it was an event she had to attend. she didn't have to attend it.