mr. muse and I are back from a few lovely days away in New York, filled with food, sleep, and theater. It is crazy that being in midtown Manhattan is less chaotic than being at home right now, but it was an escape for all of us. The museling got to spend a few wonderful days with his grandparents, and we got to recharge away from contractors. Aah ( Read more... )

In my never-ending quest to get enough sleep, for the past few months I have been making myself step away from my computer/iPad/phone at night and read in bed (on my Kindle, but its backlight doesn't mess with my brain and make me stay up late). I finished Miller's The Song of Achilles the other day, which I both loved and was enormously ( Read more... )

Here we are, day two of this posting thing I'm doing. I had a plan for a post when I was falling asleep last night, but then my brain got scrambled by the late snow day announcement phone call that so helpfully woke me up just as I was drifting off and messed up my sleep for the rest of the night, and I've no idea what the plan was. I'm sure it' ( Read more... )

I was in New York last weekend with mr. muse for some intensive Broadway therapy (Something Rotten!, Hand to God, and the benefit reading of Gross Indecency with an exceptional cast). It was restorative and lovely. I got to nap and eat yummy food, mr. muse and I walked the High Line on a stunning fall day and went to the 9/11 Memorial Museum ( ( Read more... )

All of you, except for heresluck, are fired.

Why didn't you tell me about the hip-hop almost Shakespearean delight that is Empire? Why didn't you tell me about how much I would love Cookie? OMG COOKIE. And Jamal, too, very much, but COOKIE ( Read more... )

All of the Agents of SHIELD/Agent Carter cast hilarity coming out of SDCC has made me need to see Joss's Much Ado again for Clark Gregg in a role that isn't Coulson, and I watched the first half last night. I was reminded how very hard it made me laugh when I saw it in the theater and how much I love the little human teasing moments and bits of ( Read more... )

It is the time of the summer of 2015 when Darren's still rocking the world in Hedwig and Chris is kicking off his book tour. I see Hedwig again this week and will be at Chris's book signing, and even just the really great AOL interview with Chris has got me grinning like mad at my screen ( Read more... )

mr. muse and I have been having one of our whirlwind Broadway weekends. Three shows in two days. Of interest around here is probably that tonight we went to Hedwig and the Angry InchI’m still in a post-Hedwig delirium, but what I can say about Darren as Hedwig is that (compared to NPH, whom I saw in the role last year and who was great but a ( Read more... )

mr. muse and I enjoyed a rare date night out tonight, which consisted of dinner in Boston in the theater district (in a restaurant filled to bursting with girls going to see Annie - oh the irony of being out child-free but surrounded by them anyway) and then seeing Nick Offerman's stand-up. (You may know him better as Ron Swanson from Parks and ( Read more... )

In honor of my upcoming birthday in a few weeks: two nights in NYC, three shows (plus a copy of the hilarious fake playbill scattered in the audience before Hedwig), zero children.

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