I am happy with the Riviera Bakehouse (which is also very conveniently located on my way home from work), but I feel I should explore the other area bakeries... Nothing ventured, nothing gained ( Read more... )

Make a plan, make God laugh, right? I thought I would have a nice simple day at work today, and leave with plenty of time to spare for my yoga class. Of course, instead the day turned out to be fairly busy, but the worst thing was, the documents I needed to get and I was promised would be e-mailed to me "early morning" did not, in fact, arrive ( Read more... )

Saw "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" today. I can understand why some critic called it "pornophony". :) I am not the fan of the staging in this production at the Met - satire only works when you are clear about what you are satirizing, and here they mixed three very different things, old Russia of the original novella, the 1930s Russia of the opera ( Read more... )

О будущих путешествиях в края достаточно отдаленные ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like I scored tickets for at least one event for the London Olympics. That means, that I shall finally set a foot on English soil for the first time next year. Not that I haven't wanted to visit Britain before, but other countries took priority ( Read more... )

OK, I figured out what tickets I am going to be applying for at the London Olympics. My parents decided they enjoyed Vancouver Olympics so much, they want to go to the London Games as well ( Read more... )

The cocktail dress I am going to wear tomorrow is driving me nuts. I swear every time I look at it, it looks different. Of course, the fact that it looks like a Jackson Pollack painting gone live, and in a rather whimsical cut, too, accounts for it - but still. One day it feels orange, another day - black, now it looked pink. Whatever. I am ( Read more... )

I have three days (I decided to take my Special Holiday on Monday), and lots of things I am considering doing. Namely ( Read more... )

It's a mini-reunion in the making! Something must have died somewhere, because my two best friends from pharmacy school and I are going to be in the same place at the same time! I am going to visit my parents this weekend, and I was planning to have dinner with a friend who lives there. And I just got a phone call from the other friend that SHE ( Read more... )

I just learned there is an airport with the code AVL. Just like my initials. I have to go there! It belongs to the town of Asheville, North Carolina. I have never been to North Carolina. Which makes me think... what if that recruiter who called me in October about a job in North Carolina was talking about THAT area? Maybe that was a match ( Read more... )