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cheveux sable with earworm rampant's LiveJournal:
| Monday, May 21st, 2012 | |
| 10:22 pm | the NATO commute statistics commute in this morning: 1:45 commute home this evening: 1:10 yes, i thought that they were going to reopen lake shore drive at six and i was going home at 8:30, so i headed north, only to be shunted off at oakwood, over to state street. which was painfully slow. i think that i saw more policemen tonight on that trip home than i have in the entire rest of my life put together. i passed by one protest march accompanied by i can't tell you how many cops on bikes. i believe that it's supposed to be normal tomorrow--here's hoping. |
| Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 | |
| 11:04 pm | %$##@^%% new gmail format!!!! if i had a nickel for every time i've hit "Back" instead of "Send" with the new gmail format, i'd have a steak dinner by now. maybe i should write google and ask them to buy me a steak dinner. thank god the thing saves a draft or i'd be flying to california with a torch and a pitchfork. |
| Monday, April 30th, 2012 | |
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| Monday, April 23rd, 2012 | |
| 2:14 pm | alas, poor gmail--i knew it, horatio apparently the option of continuing in the old style left us today. god, everything is 17 extra clicks or hidden somewhere i can't find it. i changed to a less obnoxious color scheme but it's still ugly as hell. *sigh* |
| Monday, April 9th, 2012 | |
| 10:41 am | reliving childhood traumas there will be posts of substance soon, but in the meantime, i have a bag of little peeled carrots that i am eating (someone, who shall remain nameless, forgot to bring her breakfast today) and they are mostly fine but some of them are terrible. i used to hate raw carrots as a kid and eating some of these, i am wondering if i had an experience like these carrots and it put me off carrots for my entire youth. cause let me tell you, some of the carrots in this bag of carrots might put me off them again. |
| Sunday, April 8th, 2012 | |
| 11:06 pm | home from minnesota and almost a week behind. we'll see how attempts to catch up go. had a great time at minicon. reports of all sorts will follow. |
| Sunday, April 1st, 2012 | |
| 9:21 pm | "angels in america" my review: go see it. okay, maybe i should say a little more. written in the early 90s, set in 1985-86, this is a masterpiece of theater, which makes it sound stuffy, but it isn't. it's about seven and a half hours of theater set across two nights. you follow a few characters as they deal with AIDS and love and betrayal and angels and hallucinations and death and reagan and a million other things that were confronting people in the mid-80s. eight actors play all the parts and thinking about what that must entail boggles the mind--two plays worth and no one plays just one character. this production was at the court theater in hyde park. we saw the first previews--the very first time with an audience, so there were technical glitches, lights to be reset, a few snags. surprisingly few, really when you consider all that is going on. the acting is superb. the directing, the set choices--i had one quibble and everything else i just went with. (i won't tell you my quibble unless you see it--there--how's that for motivation? plus, i stayed later to give feedback to the director and the dramaturge both evenings, so maybe they'll change it.) the script holds up really well--depressingly well, even. it's a depressing topic but there are many funny moments. some of the main story lines: prior has AIDS, how will his lover, louis, deal with it? harper is popping pills because her mormon husband, joe, is never home and not really there when he's there. joe gets an offer of a job in washington from roy cohn--will he take it? (yes, roy cohn is a character in this and the actor who plays him does an absolutely brilliant job.) the characters and their lives intersect. their hallucinations intersect. parts of this play rely on knowing other stuff, some of which i know and some of which i don't. what went wrong with the mourner's kaddish, i know. what the hell the bolshevik is talking about, i'm not sure i know. it doesn't really matter--you get on, you hang onto the rails and you ride the ride. it's grandiose and so specific and human at the same time. it's just an amazing production and two amazing evenings of theater. go see it. |
| Friday, March 9th, 2012 | |
| 1:41 pm | as i suspected spell check on LJ is no longer working for me. yes, changing to style 2 would probably fix that, too. however, i changed for a day and a half and i HATED it. so i'll just use this as a chance to keep those proofreading skills in tip top shape! |
| Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 | |
| 11:33 pm | "hugo" i need to hurry up and review this movie while i still remember something about it--i saw it almost a week ago. a friend and i saw clips of it during the oscar telecast and were similarly moved to try to get to see it in a theater. so last friday we planned and executed an outing. first of all, it is gorgeous. amazing attention to detail, spectactular visuals. i am so so glad to have seen it in the theater. on the other hand, the plot is a little thin. i wasn't astonished by this because the plot of the book on which it was based was a little thin, but still. on the other other hand, scorcese has fleshed it out a bit by inserting historical footage from various old movies, but i don't want to say too much about that for fear of spoilers. hugo is an orphan who lives in a huge train station. his uncle used to be in charge of keeping the clocks wound up but his uncle has disappeared so hugo is keeping up with the job, in the hopes that no one will notice that his uncle is missing and send him to the orphanage. he has a hostile encounter with a shop owner at the station and loses something that is precious to him and sets out to get it back. the shop owner is ben kingsley and what's not to like? the kids are adorable though perhaps we see too many closeups of their adorableness--but i did love the character of the girl who befriends hugo who has a very precocious vocabulary and she's not afraid to use it. the villain of the piece, the station master, is played by sasha baron cohen--i think at least two scenes were improvised in part by him. the film is a little self-congratulatory about how wonderful movies are but it held my attention and it thrilled my eyes. i do know people (respected film critics, even!) who didn't like it and i know people who liked it much more than i did, so i can't speak to who amongst you might enjoy it, but i knew right away that my dad would love it, so i recommended it to him. |
| Friday, March 2nd, 2012 | |
| 3:23 pm | oh for those of you coming to my concert, and trying to find me i think i will be easy to spot, for once, but anyway, i am on the third riser from the top about five women from the stage right, audience left end. so the best place to sit and see me is in the audience right half of the house but i think i should be visible from almost anywhere since for once there is no organ in front of me. (fine, fine, make your own joke here.) v. v. excited!!!! |
| Monday, February 27th, 2012 | |
| 12:12 pm | could this possibly be a coincidence? people who watched the oscars last night will know why i'm amused that i got an e-mail from cirque du soleil, encouraging me to buy tickets, in my in-box just now. (i've been on their e-mail list ever since i went to a show in 2006--they keep hoping i'll come back--and i will, just as soon as $100 i have no other use for turns up at the right time.) |
| Sunday, February 26th, 2012 | |
| 12:05 am | it was ten years ago, today or if you'd rather have a different earworm, what a long strange trip it's been. ten years ago i started this livejournal on a whim. i think my first week was entirely quiz results. but then i had the bright idea to put some of my trip reports up, and then i started talking about things that occurred to me, and the next thing you know, i've made almost 3700 journal entries, and ten years have gone by. the ten years i have recorded here are the most amazing ten years of my life--i've been looking back at a lot of this as i do a retagging project (remember when there was no such thing as tags?). i wanted this journal to help me remember things i did, places i went, people i met--and it's done all of that and more--happiness, grief, loss--it's all in here. and through it all there are a bunch of you who have come with me on this journey--commenting with advice or comfort or congratulations (or bad puns)--whatever the situation warranted. i met a bunch of you through LJ, too. however far away you are, however seldom i see you--the things you write in your journals and the comments you've made in mine have helped to keep us a part of each other's lives. when i do get to see you, we can pick up where we left off without a break. my life is richer for the presence of all of you--thank you for spending this time with me. and yes, thank you to livejournal--it's not the perfect tool, but it's done pretty well by me. |
| Monday, February 20th, 2012 | |
| 4:05 pm | why i hate when people mass delete all their comments mind you, people should do what they're comfortable with. but i was just looking at a post where people were making recommendations of something. and the top of a thread is a deleted comment and then there are like five comments saying "yes! that's what i would do, too!" only no one repeats what the deleted recommendation was. argh. |
| Sunday, February 19th, 2012 | |
| 8:54 am | any theater-going toronto people? just got off the phone with my dad. he's planning a trip to toronto with his group that follows the cleveland indians to remote cities to cheer them on. the saturday game is an afternoon game so he was thinking that he'd try to go to the theater saturday night but when he looked into prices for a show, they were $332 a ticket! (this is a show that would be touring from london, to be fair.) is there a half price ticket booth in toronto? are there less expensive theatrical gems that he might explore? does anyone really pay that for a theater ticket? |
| Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 | |
| 8:46 am | oh LJ, why so weird or is this a firefox problem. i was trying to use the "next entry" arrow to page through a section of my LJ and instead of taking me to the next entry, it decided to take me to the first entry of the next month. same deal with the arrow in the other direction--it skipped me to the previous month. NOT A FEATURE |
| Sunday, February 12th, 2012 | |
| 11:33 am | caught a squirrel not sure if i caught ALL the squirrels cause i'm not sure if there's more than one, but a squirrel is in the garage in a live trap, waiting to be taken for a little ride.... |
| Friday, February 3rd, 2012 | |
| 3:51 pm | aaaaahhhhhhh!!!! i can't tell you how long this has been bugging me so periodically when i am waiting for something to run or build, i have been reading the "mark reads the LotR" website. for years and years, i have been convinced that there was a chapter in "the hobbit" that was titled "flotsam and jetsam" and then i looked and there wasn't one and i was mightily confused, not to say bewildered as to why i had conjured such a thing up. because it was in "the two towers!" mystery solved! http://markreads.net/reviews/2012/02/ma (that link is to the "flotsam and jetsam" chapter but of course you should start back at the beginning of "the fellowship of the ring" if not all the way back at the beginning of "the hobbit." also, he's not done reading yet. also, OMG spoilers so don't read it if you haven't read the books and you ever intend to do so.) |
| Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | |
| 5:07 pm | "the cloud roads" and "the serpent sea" by martha wells these are the first two books in a series that will continue. i don't know if it's a trilogy or more than a trilogy, but i love this world and i will read as many books as there are set in it. i don't want to say too much because part of the delight of these books is discovering things as they are revealed to you. the protagonist is moon. moon has never found a place to belong and part of the story is his search for same. but there is a whole world and various societies within that world for a reader to discover here. wells is a genius at world-building but also has great characters. i loved her "the fall of ile-rien" trilogy and this is very different but equally wonderful. i can't wait for the next book. |
| Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 | |
| 12:41 pm | komen/planned parenthood fiasco this is a link to a petition to the susan g. komen board asking them to restore funding to planned parenthood for breast exams. http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/kom they'll ask you for your e-mail address and send more petitions to you if you don't unsubscribe, but unsubscribing is not hard. |
| Friday, January 27th, 2012 | |
| 2:17 pm | ask dr. LJ what is the best site to use to find inexpensive hotel rooms? i won't be flying, and i don't have a smartphone or something to look up stuff on the road, so i'll be making plans in advance. |
| Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 | |
| 7:02 pm | the onion strikes again this is pure genius--and sick as hell: http://www.theonion.com/articles/je headline: "Jerry Sandusky: I’ll Never Forget All The Things Joe Paterno Did For Me" |
| Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 | |
| 9:56 am | program of our march 4th concert chicago people, here's the program for our march 4th concert--i would love it if you can come to this--i can't tell you how much fun we're having singing all this great music: University of Chicago University Chorus Program Sunday, March 4th, 3pm Harmony: Supply Belcher PSALM 42 Sicut Cervus: Palestrina (1525-1594) Taunton: shape note song, William Billings (1746-1800) Njengebhadi Libhadula: South African Xhosa song BOGORODITSE DJEVO Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian Arvo Pärt (b.1935), Estonian Petar Liondev(b.1936), Bulgarian Death devours Death/Christ has risen Krist’e Aghsdga, traditional Georgian chant Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg, from Cantata 4, J.S. Bach (1685-1750) TANTUM ERGO Picardy Hymn (French Carol), as performed by Daughters of Mary Four Motets on Gregorian Themes, #IV, Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Corsican traditional as performed by Jean-Etienne Langiani RIDE THE CHARIOT Koloi ya Eliya, South African Sotho folk song Let me Ride, based on an arr. by the Wingman Quartet Swing Low, Curtis Gulledge PSALM 23 Adonai Ro’I, Gerald Cohen Bobby McFerrin (b.1950) Ke Na le Modisa, South African Sotho gospel song |
| Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 | |
| 10:47 am | a hint from gmail? every message in my gmail in-box has the word "no" in front of it (i believe where the opportunity to mark an e-mail with a star would go). i guess i don't want any e-mail today? |
| Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 | |
| 1:42 pm | what's this in my in-box? package has arrived for me--my copies of martha wells' the serpent sea and carol berg's the daemon prism!!! will finish the maisie dobbs book that i'm reading and then, book orgy! |
| Thursday, January 5th, 2012 | |
| 11:03 am | nose pressed against the window i've ordered copies of martha wells' the serpent sea and carol berg's the daemon prism. should be here by early next week. can't wait. (well i could have ordered them on my kindle and have them already, but i'm probably going to have to order the cloud roads in hard copy at some point because my kindle copy isn't satisfying my desire to flip through and find parts easily, so i'm going to wait it out.) in the meantime, i'm finally reading more of the maisie dobbs mysteries that kerstin loaned to me--i got sidetracked into a run of sf/f for a while there. they're good, but not "roll around in an orgy of reading delight" good. |
| Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 | |
| 9:51 am | new style for gmail as best i can tell, the new style=sucked all the color out. |
| Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 | |
| 4:42 am | *sigh* guess which idiot of your acquaintance forgot that she had set her alarm for 4:00 a.m., last week and is now unable to get back to sleep. |
| Friday, December 30th, 2011 | |
| 3:01 pm | obscure references R us i run with a very pro-snogging crowd. |
| Monday, December 19th, 2011 | |
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| Sunday, December 18th, 2011 | |
| 8:03 am | ack! _the serpent sea_ isn't out yet, and i've finished _the cloud roads_! |
