Just for the sake of completeness:

I have no luck with the iHome alarm/iPod docks that are becoming standard in hotels, and thus slept through my alarm Wednesday morning and got, again, a late start. But I spent a couple of hours at the American Museum of Natural History, taking a nice leisurely look at the evolution of vertebrates through ( Read more... )

Last night I saw the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie. I highly recommend it.

I don't really understand why I like The Glass Menagerie, since ordinary people doing ordinary things and being unhappy while they do them is really not my usual kind of thing. But it was my favorite of the Williams ( Read more... )

Got a later start today than I would have liked and then had a big hole put in my afternoon when the nice person at the TKTS booth downtown told me that they didn't get tickets for The Glass Menagerie there, they got them in Times Square, and I should go there at 2:30. Since I was having lunch in that area at 12:30, well, that pretty well accounted ( Read more... )

Sunday, brunch at Bee Desserts (formerly/sometimes still Cafe La Palette), which had a shady back garden, very nice savory crepes, interesting honey cakes, and crepes Suzette that were not as good as they should have been.

Then to the World Science Festival, where Chad's book signing went well and where the street fair was really impressively ( Read more... )

Good Mexican, very attentive service at Ofrenda with leighdb, scifantasy, and richboye.

I, uh, kinda blew off the talks associated with stargazing in Battery Park without really consulting Chad, for which I have apologized. When we got there, it was about 9:30 and cloudy, so no stargazing. But we headed toward some bright light and found a small cluster of people at a ( Read more... )

Frozen yogurt at Pinkberry, really excellent vegetarian food at Gobo, and overpriced tea and snacks somewhere I can't remember, in the company of many excellent people. I imagine the people around us may have been a bit traumatized by some of the topics of conversation, but oh well.

Night at Staybridge Suites in Times Square, which is very nice ( Read more... )

The suitcase and shoulder bag are packed [*], and SteelyKid is off to daycare. I've got a few more things to do around the house, a couple quick errands, and then I get on a train to go to New York City for a week.

Or, in the words of a rejected song-lyrics title for this post: vacation, all I ever wanted. (Woo!)

[*] Trivia: this is the first ( Read more... )

But not this one. Alas.

To make up for it, I'm taking a four-day vacation to NYC sometime in the last half of June, all by myself. I'm thinking during the week of June 20, because I'd like to see the New York Classical Theatre do Richard III in its roving-around-Central-Park fashion. But if there's anything else coming up in NYC in late June, or ( Read more... )

1. Chad has real books! (On shelf Dec. 22; see dogphysics.com for more information.)
2. Rubin Museum of Art: excellent new (2004) museum focusing on the art of the Himalayas. Explanatory text that comes close to the Asian Art Museum's (in San Francisco) for clarity and informativeness. If you like that kind of art, go.
3. Bronx Zoo on an unseasonably warm ( Read more... )

An extreme miscellany this time: tigers, lemurs, Amazonia exhibit, wolves, and a beaver.

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