With Kevin's departure this morning, the Great Visitor Firehose of 2011 has finally dried up. Next up: Southern California!

1. I am home in the Bay Area. My parents have a new dog. He is INSANE. He's a shepherd mix of some kind with wayyy too much energy, and he gets the other dog (who was high-energy to begin with) worked up, too. Maybe, just maybe, my parents will take a dog to an obedience class for the first time in three decades of pet ownership ( Read more... )

She had to leave
Los Angeles
( Er, except for the racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism. Stet on the idle rich, though. )

Lebowskifest last night was really fun, even though, to my great irritation, yet again public transit forced me to leave before the night was over. (I left after Donny fails to bowl a strike. "The man in the black pajamas.") I get something new out of the movie every time I see it, and last night was no exception. (Finally, on the big screen, I ( Read more... )

Yes, I am the Transit Queen for taking Metrolink to the game last night in Anaheim, then taking Amtrak back to Union Station and the MetroRail home. Sadly this plan did mean leaving 10 minutes into the third period, but everyone had scored all they were gonna score by that time so I apparently didn't miss much. Got to see a Ducks player get injured ( Read more... )

It's my last week in town ( Read more... )

I have a Lebowskifest ticket for this coming Thursday, yes I do! At long last! And on the Dude's home turf, even.

Saw Gran Torino at the cheapie theater on Thursday, thought it was a little long (some extraneous scenes) but pretty good. It was a bit simplistic/obvious in its some of its lessons, and I didn't totally like the ending. The guy ( Read more... )

Just got handed two tickets to the L.A. Philharmonic tonight at 8 PM, i.e., 2.5 hours from now. Called friend #1 of 3 in L.A., can't go. Called the other two, left vm. Apparently going to have a Highbrow Cultural Experience BY MYSELF.

This will be a slightly different tenor from last week's Friday night.

5K last night in 30:54, 4 seconds faster than Sunday's time. And I drank water later, so I avoided the pounding headache and nausea that came later on Sunday ( Read more... )

Ran 5K in 31:04 30:58* today, knocking off 1:58 from my previous best. I can do a 10-minute mile! 3 times in a row! WOOOOOO ( Read more... )