Today featuring Boston and Bristol and Minneapolis-St. Paul.

First, and farthest away, I would go and wade through books in Bristol and bring home bags and bags full.

Next, and nearest, I would attend one of the last two performances of Caligula at the Red Eye Theatre, put on by my brilliant friends at the Walking Shadow Theatre Company. I know ( Read more... )

in no particular order!

1. hanging out with damselfrog and enabling each other to buy nifty things (at the Midtown Global Market, Kitchen Window (mostly because Penzey's was closed already), Dreamhaven (after finally finding the new location), and Surdyk's). and being gifted with her annual truffles, yay!
2. hanging out with draconline and my two younger brothers ( ( Read more... )

Empirically-speaking, I think I must be pretty stressed out. I can't seem to sleep more than 5 hours at a time, which is highly unusual for me -- sometimes I fail to sleep more than 5 hours at a time, but that's usually by design. This is just... mood? And yet I'm consistently sort of up and functional and running at the mouth and cheerful, ( Read more... )

Imagine you are on your deathbed. Recommend to those who remain in your life...

1) One book to read.

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
(runner-up: 1984 by George Orwell)

2) One movie to watch.

Rashomen
(runner-up: The Breakfast Club)

3) One food to eat.

A perfect egg custard cup (dan ta), fresh out of the oven ( Read more... )

There has been a lot of awesome in the past few days.

I spent most of the weekend staying up stupid-late putting movies in my Netflix queue and ordering lots of books because the prof teaching the fall quarter of the modern Japanese history course sent out his working syllabus. Plus someone in historystudents asked for advice about medieval Japanese history ( Read more... )