Yaay! I get to go to the Just Harvest Celebration Dinner tonight! Yaay!

Cocktails start in an hour, but since I'm having to leave work early to attend, I'll probably only go for the dinner and presentation (and I hear the dinner does not offer a vegan option, so boo).

But I was not expecting this when I got up this morning, so yaay!

And a few words about G20: Not Helping.

Hearing people mock protesters? Hearing people mock protesters while agreeing with their politics? Having friends harassed and, in one case, arrested? Seeing cop cars and helicopters everywhere I go? Hearing sirens wailing nearby at all hours of the day and night?

All of the above: NOT HELPING.

As certainly everyone who lives in Pittsburgh knows, The G20 Summit will be happening in town later this week.

I have to admit, I'm torn.

On the one hand, I feel like the biggest wimp in the world for even considering not going down there. I feel like it's 1969 and I live in Vestal, NY but I just don't feel like going to a concert this weekend ( Read more... )

Great news!

Guess what I found out when I went to see Rent today?

Xanadu is coming to Pittsburgh!!!

Who's coming with me?

Caveat: It's not until February. But I'm putting it in print: If I've moved away by then, I will come back.

Xanadu, baby!

I'm sitting on my couch with aaronbenedict, watching the Inauguration Pre-Game Show, and trying to figure out what we're going to do with our day. Women For Obama brunch? Rusted Root Inaugural "ball"? Just sit and watch from the heated comfort of my living room ( Read more... )

I checked the showtimes for Milk for tomorrow. I think either the 2:50 pm or the 5:15 pm would be the way to go, with dinner at The New Dumpling House afterward.

So who's in? Is it just _aqualung_ and me?

Please let me know ... hokay?

So, two weeks from yesterday will be my birthday.

Who wants to do something?

I have my free Mad Mex entree coupon -- who wants to go with me?

Other ideas?

Anyone?

Incidentally, I went and did this before work this afternoon. I had to leave before it was over, but it was still totally worth it. A handful of the old Pirates were in attendance, as was Water, the oldest, crunchiest, most poster-child hippie at The Co-op. Turns out he was actually at game seven as an 11 year old child.

All in all, it was pretty

These pictures are of the Petland protest, Sprout's black eye, the Co-op picnic, my many many cats. Hopefully, this will be the last of the Sprout pictures for a good, long while:

( The Petland protest )