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Jun. 1st, 2005 10:18 pmGah, life! Too many things to post about! I could mention them and promise to post about them later, but I've noticed that every time I promise to post about something (e.g., Memphis, parallels between 9/11 and The London Plague, the Great Cricket Escape) it's almost a guarantee I'll never do it.
So, um, briefly:
FRIDAY: Made 100 chocolates for the fundraiser. Making them in bulk, it turns out, is only 10% more difficult than making smaller batches. And while I was afraid it was overcharging, it turns out $2 (3 for $5) was perfect--the way it averaged out, each member of the audience bought two. And there were good people there. So yay.
Packed up the car from there and flew to the other side of town for the Buffy Sing-a-Long which...wow. There's something so cathartic about singing at the top of one's lungs in a giant room full of people all doing the same thing. It was like church, but with people popping little champagne bottles during an orgasm. And a giant bunny running up and down the aisles at the appropriate moment. So, really, exactly like church.
One thing I hadn't really ever encountered before, and which surprised me...duets are teh HOTness.
SATURDAY: We had the Newburyport Ren Faire, and the sun shone for the first time in weeks! It must've been my magic tights. I teamed up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bellsm, who usually stage manages, and we spent the day trying to out-dimwit each other. Oh my god, she's good.
SUNDAY: I caved in, I admit it: we went to see Episode III: Imagine What I'd Be Like WITHOUT Stoppard and Spielberg. It was...well, it was better than expected. Better action sequences, prettier planets, fewer bad jokes, not a single 'yippee!'. No one else has mentioned this, that I've seen, but what is it with Lucas and people dangling from/falling from high places? They should issue each Jedi a parachute with the robe and lightsaber.
MONDAY: After playing far too much 'X-Men: Legends', had a dream that Jimmy Carter, criminal mastermind, was blown twenty years into the future by the energy unleashed when a nuclear plant melted down, and discovered the X-Men and other mutants had enslaved normal humans. Colossus andronsonbeck had created a game called 'Hummer Jousting', which was exactly what it sounds like; when they got bored, they picked up their trucks and bashed each other. There was a resistance, of course, with noted neurosurgeon lolalovesu leading it.
TONIGHT: Just back from a sneak preview of the new Ghibli film, Howl's Moving Castle PRETTY!!! The original Diana Wynne Jones story has been expanded in some odd ways (World War One?!?), and I still need to ponder just how well it all got wrapped up, but woo. Dazzling.
And now I sleep.
So, um, briefly:
FRIDAY: Made 100 chocolates for the fundraiser. Making them in bulk, it turns out, is only 10% more difficult than making smaller batches. And while I was afraid it was overcharging, it turns out $2 (3 for $5) was perfect--the way it averaged out, each member of the audience bought two. And there were good people there. So yay.
Packed up the car from there and flew to the other side of town for the Buffy Sing-a-Long which...wow. There's something so cathartic about singing at the top of one's lungs in a giant room full of people all doing the same thing. It was like church, but with people popping little champagne bottles during an orgasm. And a giant bunny running up and down the aisles at the appropriate moment. So, really, exactly like church.
One thing I hadn't really ever encountered before, and which surprised me...duets are teh HOTness.
SATURDAY: We had the Newburyport Ren Faire, and the sun shone for the first time in weeks! It must've been my magic tights. I teamed up with
bellsm, who usually stage manages, and we spent the day trying to out-dimwit each other. Oh my god, she's good.SUNDAY: I caved in, I admit it: we went to see Episode III: Imagine What I'd Be Like WITHOUT Stoppard and Spielberg. It was...well, it was better than expected. Better action sequences, prettier planets, fewer bad jokes, not a single 'yippee!'. No one else has mentioned this, that I've seen, but what is it with Lucas and people dangling from/falling from high places? They should issue each Jedi a parachute with the robe and lightsaber.
MONDAY: After playing far too much 'X-Men: Legends', had a dream that Jimmy Carter, criminal mastermind, was blown twenty years into the future by the energy unleashed when a nuclear plant melted down, and discovered the X-Men and other mutants had enslaved normal humans. Colossus and
ronsonbeck had created a game called 'Hummer Jousting', which was exactly what it sounds like; when they got bored, they picked up their trucks and bashed each other. There was a resistance, of course, with noted neurosurgeon lolalovesu leading it.TONIGHT: Just back from a sneak preview of the new Ghibli film, Howl's Moving Castle PRETTY!!! The original Diana Wynne Jones story has been expanded in some odd ways (World War One?!?), and I still need to ponder just how well it all got wrapped up, but woo. Dazzling.
And now I sleep.
