honey smacks:

How rad are these shoes? I think I actually need to find out if I can walk in them, if they're reasonably priced.

If a Rhodes Scholar, A Truman Scholar, six Fulbright Scholars and nine Pickering Fellows all walked into a bar, how much would the resulting tab be? Bonus points if you can say who gets stuck with it.

 *High-fives P-C*

So now that I am OBSESSED with "Slings & Arrows" I'm checking out the Stratford Festival (which New Burbage HAS to be based on and also? Go me for saying, "Hey! Wasn't Burbage an actor with The King's Men?")

Aims, during the emergency trip up to Canada, I made M take me over to Stratford (his hometown is only an hour away). There are a lot of swans. We didn't get to see any plays, but we did have lunch in a nearby pub and I did buy some really awesome books on Shakespeare.

This weekend I'm having a huge bonfire in the backyard continuing to pack before moving. That's about it, actually. I may have to add drinking heavily in there.

Do you all have updated numbers for the following statement: a Rhodes Scholar, A Truman Scholar, six Fulbright Scholars and nine Pickering Fellows.

Wouldn't she be asking how many your school produced in some time frame? I'm always getting fundraising stuff with those numbers from my undergrad.

Today's xkcd made me laugh (be sure to check the mouseover text)....

Desecration

So now that I am OBSESSED with "Slings & Arrows" I'm checking out the Stratford Festival (which New Burbage HAS to be based on and also? Go me for saying, "Hey! Wasn't Burbage an actor with The King's Men?")

Aims, during the emergency trip up to Canada, I made M take me over to Stratford (his hometown is only an hour away). There are a lot of swans. We didn't get to see any plays, but we did have lunch in a nearby pub and I did buy some really awesome books on Shakespeare.

I've seen two plays up there - R&J and Ado - but I was very young and still not much into Shakespeare. I'm excited about next year, though we still might go up in October to see As You Like It or Kiss Me, Kate.

Road trips: I takes them. I still play the games, especially the plates. In fact, I saw an Alaska plate yesterday and contemplated starting the game right then. We play it cooperatively.
 
Life has gotten much much easier since the advent of mobile internet, though. I can`t read in the car, plus I love sitting idly looking out the window so it`s less of an issue for me. But the SO now uses road passenger time as productive time. As a result, I drive a lot, since I don`t mind.
 
So! The liquid pencil! It is very weird. It writes like a ballpoint, which is to say, not entirely consistently. It feels like a pen. On the paper, it looks like a pencil, and it does erase cleanly. I have not had it long enough to see it turn permanent yet. I used it for marking up my lead sheets at rehearsal and that worked well. Although I scribbled something out and had to remind myself I could erase. I think it will take some getting used to, but overall, I like it.

This weekend: today is date day! I bought this discount card off our friend`s son to support the football team. So we have lots of buy one get one free meals available and also free popcorn at the theater! So lunch and Inception. Then tonight the boys are coming over to watch Fletch. Yeah, I dunno. It`s an SO thing. Tomorrow teach and I`m finally back in rotation with the band. Sunday, church and yardwork, probably. My tadpoles are getting huge! I think it`s time to build their rockpile for when they crawl out.

Not sure what I'm up to this weekend. Life is in a helluva lot of flux right now and that drives my needs-structure-to-thrive self crazy. I guess I'll try to get my bday plans nailed down. I'll also try to take Metro Rail to the bike shop so I can coast my bike back home.

Whoever's been stealing our newspaper nearly every day missed it today so yay!