wine & cheese redux: my favorite Russian redhead

The Siberian Siren invited me on short notice to a wine & cheese party at her place of business; I hadn't seen her in ages. I didn't get to talk to her much, but she does confirm that her business is good and her love life is crazy, more or less as usual. The partner that I thought she'd recently broken up with was there, and the two of them were acting distinctly not broken up. There's a story in there somewhere, but it didn't seem like the time and place to ask the SS to tell that story. She looked fabulous as always.

The point of this party, as near as I can gather, was to sell art. Fancy building, fancy drinks, hipster people. The art was... not what I was looking for. Kind of anodyne, I thought, but considering that the SS buys art for the properties she rents, that makes good sense from a business perspective. The Siren is nothing if not an excellent businesswoman, which she got one way or another from her mother.