Transit strike over. It happened overnight, though, so I still got up at 5:30 and caught the 6:46 train. F is a good, good man: if he wakes up early he can't fall back to sleep, and thus he was up at 5:30 with me, but he wasn't even grumpy! He fixed breakfast for us while I was in the shower. There are a lot of people who would've been grumpy, ( Read more... )

This week was crazy. It was not the best week ever. ( Read more... )

Today my mom and I went to see Coppelia. I was really excited about this one, and had been since we first heard the lineup of shows for this ballet season. I'd heard of it before, and I'd thought it was about a doll who comes to life. Actually, not really. It's really about a bratty popular girl.

( Here's the story. )

Back from NYC. Had a great time--might post about it in greater detail later, but I might not ( Read more... )

There's been a request for a picture of Dawn's Horrible Outfit on the BtVS calendar. I'll put it behind an lj-cut so you don't have to see it if you don't want to.

( Yuck! )

my buffy season 5 dvds arrived in the mail yesterday. this caused me to run around the apartment shrieking BUFFYBUFFYBUFFY!!!!!1!!!. dann says now he's only going to refer to the show as buffybuffybuffy. i watched the first two episodes with jorn last night. dann had planned to watch a hockey game because the washington caps were playing boston ( Read more... )

( adventures in nyc part one )

so i am all ready to go to nyc. last night i cleaned my room: put away all my clothes, paid my cell phone bill, did all my filing, put away the random books and papers that were scattered around, all that. now the room is nice and neat. and i packed up all my clothes and stuff, and i didn't forget my discman or extra batteries or my phone ( Read more... )

so yesterday, i had a few things to do right at the end of the day, so i didn't leave at 4:15 (or actually, i had thought about leaving early at 4:00 because i was bored); i ended up leaving around 4:23 instead. so i booked it out to the road, and when i got there the #70 is sitting there at the red light as i'm crossing the street! so i go ( Read more... )

so i give up on trying to understand the evening schedule for the #70 bus. last night i left work a bit later than i meant to but got out to the bus stop by like 4:23, and at 4:25 along arrives the #70! now, i know for a FACT that the 70 didn't arrive at that time two days ago. so was yesterday's 70 running early? late? just a fluke? how can i ( Read more... )