[Didn't manage to post this yesterday, owing to unexpected narcolepsy.]
Movies: <none>
TV: Peep Show [series 1], Burn Notice [3x01] [spoilers], The Sopranos [1x14] [spoilers]
Books: Twelfth Night [Arden, 3rd ed.]
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Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/ankthinkg.gif){kind=small} contemplative · Music: none |
This week's Sketch War theme is "Pirates!"
(This was fun. :) )
( "The Great Ship in the Sky" )
(I've cross-posted this to the Sketchwar site.)
Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/ankhappyg.gif){kind=small} arr! · Music: none |
Welcome to this week's installment of "Spanish for Everyday Situations".
( This week's situation: "You've been contending with extensive illness." )
Mood: amused · Music: none |
Hello there, real life. How have you been?
For those of you keeping score at home, the last month and a half has been: sick, trip to Chicago, sick, two weeks packed with improv and dancing, then sick again. Also, work has been gearing up to a software release, so employees at work have been running around in circles with their heads on fire.
Now I get to resume normal life. I finally shook off the coughing and fever of the previous week. This past weekend, I went dancing, I did an improv-Shakespeare show (in drag, no less), and I went to a game night at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
majcher's[1] Since then, it's just been a quiet life for me. I go to work. I fix bugs. I go home. I putter.
The coming week looks a bit busier -- I'm busy with theater stuff for the next few nights -- but hopefully I'll spend the rest of my time sitting at home and doing artsy stuff. At the very least, I get to not-be-sick and not-travel-anywhere. May I never have less.
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[1] ... whereat I somehow lucked into a victory at Ca$h'n'Gun$. Nobody pays any heed to the quiet guy who patiently accumulates a big pile of money, I guess.
Human beings are the only primates who open bananas from the 'top' (or 'stem') end. (Other primates open bananas from the 'bottom' end.) |
Mood: quiet · Music: none |
wanderlust_atx asked me for the recipe for the apple-and-sweet-potato casserole that I prepare on occasion.
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Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/anktiredg.gif){kind=small} bored · Music: none |
[Missed one week where I didn't watch anything, and then a second week where I was .]
Movies: Brokeback Mountain
TV: The Sopranos [1x09-1x12]
Books: <none>
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Mood: contemplative · Music: none |
Well, I suppose this week is easy to summarize: I got sick. I pretty much spent Saturday through Monday in bed, feverish, and sometimes pukey as well. Exciting. Today I'm still a bit goopy, but all the more dramatic symptoms are gone.
Apart from that, there's not much to report. I spent an improv-Shakespeare rehearsal practicing tech, which in my case meant "inflicting near-random sound cues on the hapless rehearsal performance". I went dancing on Friday and caught up a bit with friends in the dance scene.[1] And that's about it. Now I'm quietly nursing myself through recovery.
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[1] Jeez -- I hope nobody caught this beastie off of me....
Of the 97 people aboard the Hindenburg on its last, disastrous flight, only 35 died -- and most of the deaths happened when people jumped from the ship instead of just riding it to the ground. |
Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/anksadg.gif){kind=small} sick · Music: none |
( Okay amount of links this month. )
Mood: amused · Music: none |
May feels like it was short periods of fun separated by long periods of illness.
At the start of the month, I recovered from a nasty cold just in time to visit Chicago. Nominally I was going to Chicago for a dance event, but I mainly just visited old friends.
After that? Bronchitis. A good, long week of puttering around the house coughing up colorful goo.
Once that went away, I traipsed off to some event or other nearly every night. I went to a bunch of blues dances. I performed in a long-form improv show for the first time. I even went on a couple of dates.[1]
So that's how life was for a couple of weeks. Then I got sick (yet) again, which has led to yet another week of lying around in bed, coughing and being feverish.
Other bits of bad news: I didn't write anything longer than three pages, and I scraped a truck to the tune of $1,500 worth of damage.
If I can ever kick this latest illness (which currently seems impossible), June should be pretty pleasant. There are plays to see and dances to attend and improv shows to perform. I doubt I'll really accomplish anything this month, but it'll be nice to be not-sick for a while.
p. s. Yesterday was my birthday. If you haven't yet, ALL MUST SEND BIRTHDAY GREETINGS.
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[1] For some reason, this seems to be 'chicks dig Peter' month. I'm enjoying it while it lasts.
Mood: sick · Music: none |
Okay, I got meself over to the health clinic and got checked out.
( Things aren't so bad. )
Mood: sick · Music: none |
For those of you who don't follow the twitter: I'm sick yet again.
It's bizarre: I was pretty much fine for four months, and now I've had three different ailments in the last four weeks.
I was tired for a few days, but thought nothing of it. Then yesterday I basically slept all day and wound up with a fever that peaked at 102°.
The fever broke overnight, but then I started out today with lots of dry-heaving.
Today I mostly lolled around in bed and slowly reacquainted my digestive tract with the notion of eating food.
:(
Mood: sick · Music: none |
I'm posting a first draft of my Sketchwar entry, mainly so judovitch can look at it and perhaps cure it of some of its desperate inaccuracy.
This week's Sketchwar theme is "Twisted Children's Shows."
( "Quantum Physics" )
Mood: amused, but I suspect this isn't everyone's cup of tea · Music: none |
Welcome to this week's installment of "Spanish for Everyday Situations".
( This week's situation: "Somehow, you're watching the film _Batman & Robin_." )
Mood: amused · Music: none |
Well, the big news this week is that I managed to scrape someone's truck while parking yesterday, which damaged it to the tune of $1,500.
*sigh*
Apart from that, I suppose the week went fine. I went dancing... jeez, *four* times?, acquitted myself okay in Improv Shakespeare and Micetro, and checked out the latest Austin Shakespeare production with phylomath. At home, I passed the time with the usual reading & writing[1] & playing guitar.
The coming week looks fairly ordinary. More improv, more dancing. Work should quiet down a bit. Oh, and I have a birthday coming up. Apart from that, just the usual quiet puttering.
Hopefully I won't hit anything else with my car.
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[1] I churned out another Sketchwar entry and another Spanish post and that was it. *shrug*
Germans purchase more board games per capita than any other nationality. (source: Wired, April 2009) |
Mood: regretful · Music: none |
This past Saturday, I performed in the Hideout's "Improvised Shakespeare" show. I figured I'd let folks know how that went.
Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/ankgeekg.gif){kind=small} accomplished · Music: none |
This week's Friday Sketch War theme is "The State of Health Care."
(Eh, I don't know what to make of this one. Ah well.)
( "Medicine of the Future" )
(I've cross-posted this to the Sketchwar site.)
Mood: disappointed · Music: none |
Welcome to this week's installment of "Spanish for Everyday Situations".
( This week's situation: "Oh no! You didn't get enough sleep!" )
Mood: amused · Music: none |
This week, I'm restored to health (hooray!), so I've been out & about most of the time.
I went dancing three times (jeez), and also dropped by the swing society's annual picnic. I went to four different improv shows, another improv-Shakespeare rehearsal, and majcher's IfE-anniversary party. I watched the pun-off with phylomath, and saw wackyengineer vanquish his first two opponents on his way to ultimate victory (huzzah!). Oh, and there was the LOST finale, which was great fun.
Perhaps I overdid things. Last night I went home and just stared into space for a few hours.
This week looks similarly busy. I'll go to more dances, and catch up with college types who are returning to the local dance scene for the summer. I'll put in my first (of two) appearances with the Hideout's Improvised Shakespeare show on Saturday (at 8pm), which is exciting and scary. I'm also hoping to check out Romeo and Juliet at Zilker before the weather gets awful.
So: still busy, but it should be pleasant. I'll squeeze in artsy stuff whenever I can.
Vincent Connare designed Comic Sans for Microsoft Bob; he based it on the two graphic novels he had kicking around his office: The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. |
Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/anktiredg.gif){kind=small} tired · Music: none |
Movies: A Very Long Engagement
TV: Andy Richter Controls the Universe [2x09-2x13], LOST [5x16] [spoilers]
Books: Richard II [Arden, 3rd ed.]
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Mood: contemplative · Music: none |
Here are the improv photos I took this past weekend...
The Improv for Evil three-year-anniversary show: facebook, flickr.
Rise and Shine, the improvised morning talk show: facebook, flickr.
Improvised Shakespeare: facebook, flickr.
Micetro: facebook, flickr.
Mood: tired · Music: none |
