28th Anniversary

Today is our 28th wedding anniversary. Some day I should scan in some of the wedding pictures so that you can laugh at the silly 1980 clothes everyone was wearing. We went to dinner at Da Vinci's in Eagle--which is a local Italian restaurant a step up from Carino's or Olive Garden in ambiance, without quite the expense and pretense of Asiago's, the high end gourmet Italian restaurant in Boise.

An interesting twist is that like my wife, the waitress's undergraduate area of specialization was Victorian literature, and the two of them probably spent more time discussing Vanity Fair, Jane Austen, and related subjects, than they really should have.

You may recall that in the 1980s TV series Cheers, Shelley Long played Diane Chambers, a neurotic English literature grad student who worked in the bar. Alas, the world is full of overeducated English literature specialists working in food service. Along with the waitress tonight, my wife worked as a hostess at a country club when we first moved here. Her fellow employees kidded that she was the most overeducated restaurant hostess that had ever lived.