So last Saturday, Andrew and I went down to the grand reopening of Arena Stage, because since I used to work in their costume shop, I'd been invited to their alumni brunch. It's been a while since I last walked around SW DC, beyond the baseball stadium, but I'd seen the new Arena from the road a few times and I was very much looking forward to ( Read more... )

I have over the last few days been taking the CUE bus either to the Metro or returning home from it. Mostly it's the latter, because I've been getting home around 7.30 or 8 and it's dark and cold, and while it's only a fifteen-minute walk, it's also a three-minute wait for the bus. Thus, bus. Yesterday I took the bus to the Metro but only ( Read more... )

Well, so ends another Contest - pardon to those of you who blinked and missed it. The meeting at Arena is nearly over, I am home awaiting a plumber to deal with the master bathroom, and I am happy to announce the winner of the Yak is cecelle with what has to be the most ingenious and cleverly devised play ever.

"Zwei Huehner auf them Weg nach Vorgestern ( Read more... )

Today was a...well, it was a day. The commute into work was hard, not because of any trains breaking down, but because it afforded me time to think and thinking wasn't exactly what I wanted to do today. I find myself thinking about the wrong things entirely.

Today was spent getting set up for the Costume Sale. I am happy to say that the space ( Read more... )

Good News: Our HHE - that is, all our worldly belongings that have been travelling to the US via the slow boat, or when that fails, a yak - are reported to not only be IN the US, but they've cleared customs, which was supposed to be a long and ardous process due to the whole let's-look-through-all-the-boxes-because-of-terrorism issue.

Bad News: ( Read more... )

Carmen and casapazzo were over for dinner tonight - honey mustard chicken, broccoli, and some sort of tomato-based rice product. Oh, and homemade brownies for dessert, soaked in Bailey's, because they brought it with them ( Read more... )