not-so-short notes
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iridiumfriday: work-as-usual, with some further planning as to how to wrap things up so that nothing comes crashing to a halt when i leave. half-unexpected downtime in the evening, low and sad and hard, but a good thing. wrote a fair bit, untangling the internal fallout from the past week. talked to geeta a little.
saturday: went shopping for an electric hand-mixer (yay kitchen gadgets!), then a quick run through the farmer's market right at closing time. picked up satsumas, concord grapes, three large bunches of celery, apples, raspberries (red and yellow). people started showing up a little after three. jesse brought the Foodlab waffle irons and waffle-batter,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jencallisto brought tiny dark-chocolate cups and framboise, and it was quite a decadent breakfast. (the pinnacle of the day's decadence, for me, was putting one raspberry into each dark-chocolate cup, then pouring framboise over that, topping it off with vanilla whipped cream, then sipping/eating the whole thing very slowly.)
i was a little apprehensive about having the party after such a rough week, but it turned out very well. *laugh* it helped that i didn't worry much about organizing, and spread it out over the whole day. lots of people came by, but the house was never overcrowded, and the whole thing was very chill. (kind of impressive, really -- i get burned out from being over-social pretty easily, and the housewarming ran from roughly 3pm until the last of us left the Kerry House at 2am, and at the end of it i was tired, but not burned-out, and the house wasn't even a mess.) *laugh* it didn't segregate into MIT/non-MIT, except for when we sat down to play Taboo, but that was semi-intentional. we wandered down to L'Amyx in the evening for hot bubble tea (tasty!) and then to the Kerry House, where i shot one of the most ridiculously awful games of pool i think i've ever played. (we were playing doubles, at least, and everybody butvrfranco played almost as badly as me. so we had to handicap vrfranco...and she was still probably the best player that game, even shooting one-handed. much fun.
my house is well-warmed, now. and i have a bottle of sweet mead fromplymouth and auros that i'm very much looking forward to tasting, books(!!) from jencallisto, more chocolate, a lovely gerber daisy and some framboise lambic from vrfranco, and a bottle of wine from ancawonka and jeff, to go with some other dinner party. *smile* it was a fine day, indeed; a very good day spent with friends.
sunday: a slow, lazy, and somewhat-hungover morning. i misread my clock and ended up half an hour late forasarwate's play. i quite enjoyed the play, despite being a bit startled by the first scene i saw asarwate in, and he even had time to run out for a quick dinner afterward. (good luck of the day: i was in a serious rush trying to get there, and parked in one of the campus lots. but the fee-permit machine ate my money, and i only had enough change left to pay for an hour...and the play was ~3 hours long. so we rushed back to the car afterward, and arrived just as the campus-parking guy was writing a ticket for the car next to mine. we jumped in the car and drove off before he could give me a ticket, and then found street parking within a block!)
fyfer called while i was on my way home and reminded me about the Red Elvises show. i was tired and not quite in the mood for going out, but it'd been awhile since i saw them, and it was local and cheap...so i went. getting there proved to be a bit tricky, though -- first my glasses fell apart when i set them down on the bathroom sink, and the tiny screw that holds the right-side stem on fell down the drain. (but i found the tiny washer that goes with the screw right next to the drain, a day later. very strange.) can't drive without my glasses, so i poked around the house frantically, found a bit of wire, and reattached the stem. then rush-rush (already running late, of course) to the car, and...the car won't start. and won't start, and i don't know why. the battery light was on, so i did another frantic search of the car & house for my jumpstart battery...and, no luck. don't know where it is. this is bad. but fyfer says she'll drive over and pick me up, which is good. more frantic searching, and then after closing up the car again i try to start her one more time...and it works just fine. (maybe the engine was flooded? no idea.) but i was frazzled and fyfer was already on her way, so i caught a ride with her anyhow, and we made it to the show and met up with l_stboy there. whee!
the show was great. the opening band was...not so good, but did at least inspire us to get earplugs, and then i grabbed space right up front for dancing, and the Red Elvises (Your Favorite Band) came on and played one long set and one short set, and i danced the whole time pretty much nonstop. they've got a new kid on keyboard and accordion, and they've added a fifth member, a guy who looked disconcertingly likeloravarnion, on sax, clarinet, flute, and what i'm guessing is a baritone sax. it works very, very well, and they played a tighter show than they have the last couple of times i've seen them. makes me grin and get all bouncy just remembering the show. dancing is good for the soul.
"...and on drums, from sunny Minnesota, Fyodor Dostoevsky!"
People say she's a witch
Nobody saw her cry
Somebody saw her dancing
Somebody saw her fly
She got a gypsy heart, she got a gypsy soul ...
unfortunately the late nights all weekend and allergies left me feeling too sick and tired and sore to go to DeathGuild withjencallisto and plymouth. one of these days i'll make it down there...
saturday: went shopping for an electric hand-mixer (yay kitchen gadgets!), then a quick run through the farmer's market right at closing time. picked up satsumas, concord grapes, three large bunches of celery, apples, raspberries (red and yellow). people started showing up a little after three. jesse brought the Foodlab waffle irons and waffle-batter,
jencallisto brought tiny dark-chocolate cups and framboise, and it was quite a decadent breakfast. (the pinnacle of the day's decadence, for me, was putting one raspberry into each dark-chocolate cup, then pouring framboise over that, topping it off with vanilla whipped cream, then sipping/eating the whole thing very slowly.) i was a little apprehensive about having the party after such a rough week, but it turned out very well. *laugh* it helped that i didn't worry much about organizing, and spread it out over the whole day. lots of people came by, but the house was never overcrowded, and the whole thing was very chill. (kind of impressive, really -- i get burned out from being over-social pretty easily, and the housewarming ran from roughly 3pm until the last of us left the Kerry House at 2am, and at the end of it i was tired, but not burned-out, and the house wasn't even a mess.) *laugh* it didn't segregate into MIT/non-MIT, except for when we sat down to play Taboo, but that was semi-intentional. we wandered down to L'Amyx in the evening for hot bubble tea (tasty!) and then to the Kerry House, where i shot one of the most ridiculously awful games of pool i think i've ever played. (we were playing doubles, at least, and everybody but
vrfranco played almost as badly as me. so we had to handicap vrfranco...and she was still probably the best player that game, even shooting one-handed. much fun.my house is well-warmed, now. and i have a bottle of sweet mead from
plymouth and auros that i'm very much looking forward to tasting, books(!!) from jencallisto, more chocolate, a lovely gerber daisy and some framboise lambic from vrfranco, and a bottle of wine from ancawonka and jeff, to go with some other dinner party. *smile* it was a fine day, indeed; a very good day spent with friends. sunday: a slow, lazy, and somewhat-hungover morning. i misread my clock and ended up half an hour late for
asarwate's play. i quite enjoyed the play, despite being a bit startled by the first scene i saw asarwate in, and he even had time to run out for a quick dinner afterward. (good luck of the day: i was in a serious rush trying to get there, and parked in one of the campus lots. but the fee-permit machine ate my money, and i only had enough change left to pay for an hour...and the play was ~3 hours long. so we rushed back to the car afterward, and arrived just as the campus-parking guy was writing a ticket for the car next to mine. we jumped in the car and drove off before he could give me a ticket, and then found street parking within a block!) fyfer called while i was on my way home and reminded me about the Red Elvises show. i was tired and not quite in the mood for going out, but it'd been awhile since i saw them, and it was local and cheap...so i went. getting there proved to be a bit tricky, though -- first my glasses fell apart when i set them down on the bathroom sink, and the tiny screw that holds the right-side stem on fell down the drain. (but i found the tiny washer that goes with the screw right next to the drain, a day later. very strange.) can't drive without my glasses, so i poked around the house frantically, found a bit of wire, and reattached the stem. then rush-rush (already running late, of course) to the car, and...the car won't start. and won't start, and i don't know why. the battery light was on, so i did another frantic search of the car & house for my jumpstart battery...and, no luck. don't know where it is. this is bad. but fyfer says she'll drive over and pick me up, which is good. more frantic searching, and then after closing up the car again i try to start her one more time...and it works just fine. (maybe the engine was flooded? no idea.) but i was frazzled and fyfer was already on her way, so i caught a ride with her anyhow, and we made it to the show and met up with l_stboy there. whee!the show was great. the opening band was...not so good, but did at least inspire us to get earplugs, and then i grabbed space right up front for dancing, and the Red Elvises (Your Favorite Band) came on and played one long set and one short set, and i danced the whole time pretty much nonstop. they've got a new kid on keyboard and accordion, and they've added a fifth member, a guy who looked disconcertingly like
loravarnion, on sax, clarinet, flute, and what i'm guessing is a baritone sax. it works very, very well, and they played a tighter show than they have the last couple of times i've seen them. makes me grin and get all bouncy just remembering the show. dancing is good for the soul."...and on drums, from sunny Minnesota, Fyodor Dostoevsky!"
People say she's a witch
Nobody saw her cry
Somebody saw her dancing
Somebody saw her fly
She got a gypsy heart, she got a gypsy soul ...
unfortunately the late nights all weekend and allergies left me feeling too sick and tired and sore to go to DeathGuild with
jencallisto and plymouth. one of these days i'll make it down there...
