And yet more inane babble...
So, ever since recovering from my stomach flu of a couple weeks ago, my stomach has not been the same. I have gone way down in my capacity for both amount and greasiness of food. I suppose I could look at this as a bad thing, but I've chosen to make mental lemonade and accept and revel in the fact that I have lost at least three pounds in the past two weeks. Woohoo. So hopefully I can keep this up and shake some of the weight. And hopefully, my inability/lack of desire to eat greasy food is a permanent thing.
Last night Dani and I went to the movie theatre to see an opera. They have been doing this for awhile, the operas are filmed at the Metropolitan Opera (the only reason I have ever entertained the notion of moving to New York City) and they broadcast them in HD to movie theatres across the country. The one showing last night was Barbiere di Siviglia, which is in my top five countdown (or so) of favorite operas so I thought it would be fun, and I managed to convince Dani to join me. It was pretty awesome, which is to be expected of one of the world's premier opera companies. I had somehow never heard Juan Diego Flórez sing before, and he was absolutely incredible as Count Almaviva. Everyone in the cast was fantastic, but he really stood out for me.
I do think it speaks to my lack of experience in opera and musical theatre that for all of Almaviva and Rosina's love scenes all I could think about was how loud the other person was probably being in the other's ears. But honestly, it doesn't matter how many plays I've sung in, all I can think of is my first lead in a musical (which was Brigadoon, FYI) and how loud the dude playing Tommy sang in my face. And then I start thinking about how lame Brigadoon is, and how much of a tool in general Tommy-actor was, and then I go off in a wholly different direction from where I started. Kind of like now.
Anyway, I'm contemplating another mass-internet-name-change. The last time I did this was in like 2003 or something when I changed everything from selonie to toxic fairie because I was trying to shed the stigma of the whole otherkin thing and I wanted to disassociate myself with that bunch as much as possible. Toxic Fairie was a good name then because it was trendy enough that it made me come off as "normal"...but more than anything it was sort of a joke because I was at the time tending toward the bitchy end of the spectrum and it was like "ha-ha get it toxic fairie" and yeah. Long story short, I'm over the name and I'm thinking about changing it again. Of course I have no idea what I want to change it to, it seems like the made-up names tend to not lose their charm as fast as word-names...but part of me really wants to go with monadology because...I don't know. Just because. Because I love Leibniz and having a nice obscure word like monadology as my name would entertain me.
I don't know though, we'll see.
Last night Dani and I went to the movie theatre to see an opera. They have been doing this for awhile, the operas are filmed at the Metropolitan Opera (the only reason I have ever entertained the notion of moving to New York City) and they broadcast them in HD to movie theatres across the country. The one showing last night was Barbiere di Siviglia, which is in my top five countdown (or so) of favorite operas so I thought it would be fun, and I managed to convince Dani to join me. It was pretty awesome, which is to be expected of one of the world's premier opera companies. I had somehow never heard Juan Diego Flórez sing before, and he was absolutely incredible as Count Almaviva. Everyone in the cast was fantastic, but he really stood out for me.
I do think it speaks to my lack of experience in opera and musical theatre that for all of Almaviva and Rosina's love scenes all I could think about was how loud the other person was probably being in the other's ears. But honestly, it doesn't matter how many plays I've sung in, all I can think of is my first lead in a musical (which was Brigadoon, FYI) and how loud the dude playing Tommy sang in my face. And then I start thinking about how lame Brigadoon is, and how much of a tool in general Tommy-actor was, and then I go off in a wholly different direction from where I started. Kind of like now.
Anyway, I'm contemplating another mass-internet-name-change. The last time I did this was in like 2003 or something when I changed everything from selonie to toxic fairie because I was trying to shed the stigma of the whole otherkin thing and I wanted to disassociate myself with that bunch as much as possible. Toxic Fairie was a good name then because it was trendy enough that it made me come off as "normal"...but more than anything it was sort of a joke because I was at the time tending toward the bitchy end of the spectrum and it was like "ha-ha get it toxic fairie" and yeah. Long story short, I'm over the name and I'm thinking about changing it again. Of course I have no idea what I want to change it to, it seems like the made-up names tend to not lose their charm as fast as word-names...but part of me really wants to go with monadology because...I don't know. Just because. Because I love Leibniz and having a nice obscure word like monadology as my name would entertain me.
I don't know though, we'll see.