From The Friday Five:

1. Would you rather have the unpredictability of live theatre or the predictability of a movie?

I would choose a live play every time - I love live theatre. Live experiences in general. Not that I don't like movies, though I find that there are not many movies I am interested in these days

2. Do you prefer the symphony and ( Read more... )

Woke early enough, and with energy enough, to entirely clean the apartment. Well, almost entirely. After I thought I'd finished I found spilled birdseed under one of my tables. How does that happen ( Read more... )

In Turkey, I kept hearing the phrase "boutique hotels", which was not a phrase I knew. For instance, in Cappadocia, there are a lot of cave dwellings where people lived until the 1960s, but the government made them move out because the housing was substandard.

Now, those cave-houses have been renovated as "boutique hotels" like the Giramisu Cave ( Read more... )

Today was the longest birthday I have ever had - a 31 hour day.

It started in Istanbul at the Taksim Gonen Hotel, and continued through the long drive to the Atatürk Havalimanı Airport, and the long flight on Air Transat to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, and then the drive from Montreal to Ottawa - hampered by a ( Read more... )

I'm all packed. I've double-checked everything I need, knowing I'll have forgotten to pack something. I've gone over the schedule for the Dunnett Siege...

And now I'm waiting for my friend to drive me to the aiport to go to Istanbul, Turkey. Turkey! So exciting.

Topkapi Palace, here I come.

• Went to the gym; got measured. It went well. Some days are easier than others.
  
• Met gamergrrl and Tasia for lunch at Sushi 88. Had their lunch sashimi dish; as nice as one might expect. And wakame salad as appetizer.
  
• Went to Ottawa U to return library books, and made notes on Court, household and itinerary of King Henry II (1878).
  
• Met up with friends ( Read more... )

Today I saw Jesus Christ Superstar at the Avon Theatre in Stratford, Ontario ( Read more... )

There's an annual flash-film festival. Who knew? Anyway, I came across this site: Subway Life, and found it quite fascinating.

I love subway lore. Scenes in movies that take place in subways. People chasing through subways. Scenes like the scenes in the subway in Ghost, with Patrick Swayze moving the penny ( Read more... )

I haven't found time yet to write about FanExpo in Toronto - and yes, I plan too - but I did make up a scrapbook page from the program book. Geared to the people I saw, the things I did.


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I'll be out of town for a week starting tomorrow, and probably won't have Net access till I get home. Hope everyone here has a good week!