The Westside Community Folk Song/Gospel Choir concert was tonight, and other than the church getting hotter and stuffier by the minute, everything was going fine until the next-to-the-next-to-the-last song ("The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy", a calypso "traditional West Indian carol" which had replaced the last two songs on the original list) when I ( Read more... )

Tuesday I was back in the dentist's chair for the fourth time in recent succession. It started a month ago with sore teeth and a checkup, broccolipwns hanging out reading in the waiting room so we could shop for Halloween costume supplies afterward. Then on election day, after riding my bike to the polling place as previously mentioned I rode it downtown for ( Read more... )

Sunday the 14th having been the last day of the Santa Cruz County Fair, on Monday the 15th broccolipwns and I went over to the fairgrounds to pick up his contest entries. He had won a first place ribbon for his Mentos collection, second place ribbons for his Neopets collection and "Tall" photograph, and third place ribbons for his "MySpace photo" and "Applause ( Read more... )

Early one morning a little over a month ago, violetclm and I were pushing a wheeled desk chair down the street in the rain, trying to keep it from tipping over despite the heavy 2'x2'x1' garbage-bag-wrapped box balanced on its arms. violetclm rejected the first grocery cart we passed due to questionable content, but when we came upon a second one we transferred the ( Read more... )

So in my beginning piano part I class fall semester I could basically do no wrong, but with part II this semester, although I continued to be the default person to get called on to answer/demonstrate various things, I was finding the class in general more and more frustrating, because my abilities had improved enough to be able to play more complex ( Read more... )

Today is the 33rd anniversary of the day I moved to Santa Cruz, back when I was about 32 months older than violetclm is now. And speaking of the juxtapositioning of such numbers, 33 is how old I was when violetclm was born. And as I walked through the Cabrillo cafeteria this evening I was having strong flashbacks of eating many not-too-great meals there with violetclm 31 ( Read more... )

This evening I was walking by the Cabrillo cafeteria on my way to the music lab, when I was pleasantly surprised to see not only all the tables wearing white tablecloths and seasonal decorations, but also Barak wearing a crown of helium balloons and flowers (unfortunately I didn't have my camera along this week), and plaidsupersquid and nitoya2 were with him, getting ( Read more... )

As usual I haven't been managing to get around to writing about most of the things I've been supposedly intending to post about, so in that vein the first mention you get of the beginning piano class I've been taking this semester is that tonight was the midterm already.

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I'm sitting here eating sliced peaches out of a can (what can I say, for some reason I got a craving for them when broccolipwns and I went down that aisle of the supermarket last night) and shopping for a Vista laptop.

violetclm is in the dorm-overnight stage of a visit to Linfield College up in kightp-land, another school he was accepted to with scholarships and grants ( Read more... )

I was going to mention the great Shakespearean insult coincidence, but I see that broccolipwns already did. Wednesday he and violetclm went to the second of two pre-production workshops for Henry IV part I -- basically getting some background on (and playing around with) the play before the actual rehearsals start next month. violetclm was at various times Falstaff, Prince Hal ( Read more... )