August 2005 Archives

My mom opened a store! She's very excited, and so am I. If you or someone you know needs wedding favors, shower decorations, anything to dress up a special event, please check out TheFavoritePlace.com. It's her pride and joy. :) Well, after me and my sis.

I saw the - funniest - show last night. Sides, the tale of six actors auditioning around NYC.

All right, full disclosure: one of the actors is a dear friend's boyfriend. But that made no difference. They call it Sides, they say, because a side is the part an actor reads in an audition. Well, I think they really call it Sides because those are the body parts you end up grasping as you roar, as you struggle for breath.

It's really careful comedy, structured more around timing and pauses than impressions and punchlines. And the details - my goodness, the details. God and comedy are in the details, and that's where this show soars - in one segment a girl who is doing a god-awful audition dance screws up her face in major concentration to perform what must be a very, very difficult combination and is in reality as easy as snapping her fingers - see, it's the kind of comedy you just cannot describe. It loses it to describe it.

Anyway, it's really awesome. Go if you can.

(I will get to the youyous, I haven't forgotten!)

Taken from many - time for me to tell you about you (if I have the time which is entirely why this will take four years but I'll try and answer anyone that responds).

Respond to this with your name, favorite color and your birthday. In turn:

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a dessert with which you and I would have a food fight.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (maybe/maybe not).
5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of (your Patronus?).
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.

If I don't know you I'll make it up, but I'll tell you I'm making it up so you aren't offended when I say you should be a four-feathered peacock or something.

If you'd like, and I answer for you, continue it on by posting on your journal/blog/etc. for others

I finally said to Arjuna - the one who is responsible for all my Joss Whedony love, and was such a huge part of my Sondheim intro - that if he didn't read HP soon I would shoot him. He's finally past book three. This death threat thing? Works.

(Little kids who came here from TLC: kidding about the death thing. Don't try that at home, please.)

I finally said to Arjuna - the one who is responsible for all my Joss Whedony love, and was such a huge part of my Sondheim intro - that if he didn't read HP soon I would shoot him. He's finally past book three. This death threat thing? Works.

(Little kids who came here from TLC: kidding about the death thing. Don't try that at home, please.)

I'm home after a weekend in Colorado, during which Cheryl, Ben and I did the following things:

• White-water rafted
• Went to a rodeo
• Slid down a mountain
• Hiked up a mountain (Ben also hiked down)
• Swam
• Scrabbled
• Slept a lot
• Played minigolf
• Drank wine
• Watched Zoolander
• Laughed
• Read
• Listened to a lot of Elvis
• Swam
• Yee-hawed
• Ate loads
• Relaxed

It was this very odd combination of being very active and yet also very calm. Though we were fatigued and sore, the lack of Internet, schedules, alarm clocks and obligations - and presence of crisp (though very thin) mountain air - made for the kind of restful weekend you just don't get in many places.

And then there was also the hot whitewater rafting instructor. Um. He made things better, too.

Pics soon (hot instructor included).

They're up! And yeah, there were a few more that David and Kathleen vetoed. And some I did, too. :) But, there's a small sampling, a tiny recording of last month's trip.

Descriptions and such are below the pics when you click on them.