Oh, that's so much better.

Cool, so now I've seen West Side Story--and I've had exposure to another famous musical. Whee. It was actually quite well done, except the lack of communication between the dance director (who had a lot of dances with guys crouching down near the floor) and the set designers (who could have told that person about seating in that room, and how it doesn't slope enough to let anyone but the front row see those dances). Anyway, it was good, and afterward I finally got to see my bug. There was one bit of weirdness( which I handled pretty calmly )

and then HLM and I went home--together! yay!--and collapsed exhausted into bed and talked about SF stories for a little bit. It was soooo nice. :) Sex would've been good too, but I think I needed the talking even more.

So tonight is another show, but I'll be busy with a cookfest--I plan to go grocery shopping and cook up a few things to carry us through the weekend and bring to the recipe party. The other interesting thing about today is that I'm spending an hour tutoring a friend from the DC class in the very basics of software--more trying to just make it non-scary for her, than actually trying to teach her to do it. I'm curious how that will go... it should be fun, at least.

A silly moment

Forgot this--as I was walking down the stairs into the subway this morning, I saw a headline saying "27 Die in Turkey Blasts." I remembered the number 27 from hearing some news the day before, but I still thought of Thanksgiving, and... bombs stuffed in turkeys, or something, maybe?... for several long stupid seconds before I remembered Turkey the country. I'm torn between thinking "no wonder people hate Americans" and thinking that with Thanksgiving being next week, I could hardly be expected to correlate the words differently before 9 AM. Siggggghhhhh. :)

I couldn't resist...

1. List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.
* Wrap Xmas presents
* Talk to B about magazine idea
* Do the splits--ha ha, every year I think this'll be the year, and as always by November... no chance.
* Get a goddamn professional massage to ease my amazingly painful back!
* Make at least some progress toward blue belt in TKD, and towards condo-buying

2. List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again.
* Tom--first love, and mutual friend of kfb's
* Carolyn from high school, maybe
* ?
* ?
* ?

(Editorial note: I don't miss a lot of people, apparently!)

3. List five things you'd like to learn how to do.
* Flash and applets -- or maybe just get way better at OpenGL
* Play piano
* A really good wheel kick (TKD again)
* Speak more languages... at least pick up German again and add one more
* Be honest and really myself at work without ever offending anyone (and while I'm at it, if I could flap my arms and fly, that sure would rock).

4. List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit).
* Buy and revamp a house in Cambridgeport (100% down payment! Mwhahahaha, there's a dream.)
* Let HLM have more time to develop his language
* A trip to space actually would be pretty cool, now that webrat mentions it
* Donate oodles of money to animal shelters
* Buy that pretty watch I saw a few weeks ago

5. List five six things you do that help you relax.
* Read read read... out on the porch, or in bed, or on the subway, or during sex... whups, kidding there. Really.
* Blog :)
* Get back and feet rubs
* Stretch
* Make & drink tea or hot chocolate
* Sex & snuggling