Yesterday provided an interesting dose of sturm und drang, as the skies opened up dramatically for the second day in a row. Whereas Tuesday the storm–hurricane-dark skies, searingly bright lightning bolts and near-instantaneous thunder, and fierce winds–already had passed an hour before the show began, last night the skies opened up mere moments before Ben […]
Last night’s performance of Thoroughly Modern Millie was a wonderful treat. The performance really would have been enjoyable from anywhere in the pavilion at Wolf Trap–though given the intense storms that raged through the area just a couple of hours prior to curtain, I wouldn’t have wanted lawn seats last night–but the front row seats […]
I almost titled this entry “Psycho Kitty, qu’est-ce que c’est?”, since my sister almost always refers to Alex only as “Psycho Kitty.” She gave him this nickname the first time she visited overnight, based on his scratching my nephew, attacking her foot during the night and the scars she’d seen me sporting. To be fair […]
As Jeff has noted, he and I are going to see Thoroughly Modern Millie next Tuesday night at Wolf Trap. While I’ve been listening to his CD of the score, I wasn’t familiar with the book so I went to the Modern Millie Tour website to see if there might be such background material. And […]
Off and on over the past few years I’ve maintained profiles (read, personal ads) on Match.com and Planet Out. And, in fact, my ex Terry and I, who were together over a year, met via our Planet Out profiles, so I had at least one success. Earlier this month, though, I cancelled both accounts–trying to […]
Oddly, a clock radio just started doing its insistent beep, beep, beep… alarm in the program assistant’s cubicle just next to my office. No one else is in the office at the moment–she had gone upstairs to do some errands–so I walked over and hit the snooze button, and then found the switch to turn […]
Fortunately, I have some stress-reduction plans for this weekend (at least I hope the weekend will be less rather than more stressful). Jeff and I are driving down tonight to stay with my friends Sheldon and Lisa in Yorktown, and then going tomorrow morning to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, where we’ll spend the day riding […]
This morning, my boss hasn’t yet shown up to work, nor has she called. Apparently yesterday evening before she left, she told the administrative assistant that she was feeling ill and that if she continued to feel that unwell, she wouldn’t be in today. So, in light of the fact that she’s now 90 minutes […]
From the previews, next week’s Queer Eye… looks like the one I’ve been waiting for: one segment features a bikini-clad Kyan–the “cute” one–and he definitely seems to be packing. As he said in his Hip Tip last night, with a significant glance downward toward his own basket, “Manscaping [trimming body hair] done well can make… […]
Last night I received an email from an old squaredancing buddy, Kris, who has been maintaining a square dance blog for the past several years. She periodically googles for “square dance blog,” and this time the results included several of my own entries, so she dropped me a nice line letting me know she’d found […]