Sunday

[chanaleh]

Made potato kugel to take to cthulhia's. Everyone raved about it, yay; I think the rosemary was a good addition. I hadn't been to cthulhia's house before, and apart from being a beautiful space, it is infused everywhere with cool and interesting things -- like a peek into the interior of cthulhia's mind. It was a very enjoyable morning (er, afternoon) and I was pleased to have been included. Jonathan-my-jo was also there; I hope I didn't monopolize him too much, but it was really nice to see him too. He tried to get gosling and ceo to buy Teal House, which would be very entertaining :-)

Jonathan dropped me off afterwards at the Porter Square T, where I ran a couple of errands first and bumped into rikchik and marymary. I smiled and said hello; he smiled and said hello; she gave a small smile and turned her face away. Heh. If I'm to see them any more often again, I must start plotting more active ways of killing her with kindness. Not because I'd hope for it to make any difference, just because I'd find it so entertaining to watch it making no difference.

Came home, bought groceries, made dinner-and-tentative-movie plans with navrins. Ended up cooking at home and then we went out to see Chicago at the Boston Common. Wow! navrins had nits to pick, of course, and I could see the validity of some of his complaints, but I enjoyed it no less wholeheartedly for that. I couldn't help it -- I was dancing all the way out the theater. It made me want to put on fishnets and start singing in smoky nightclubs. I saw a community theater production of this show back home YEARS ago, and I don't remember being impressed by it so much, but I got a kick out of this version all right.

Then Brian said "Isn't MTG scheduled to do Chicago sometime soon?" and I checked this morning and indeed, it's their upcoming spring show. Gaah! I fear I may need to try out for this... even if it comes to mean dissing MITG&SP's Utopia, Ltd. (Comments about the relative suckitude of Utopia as a show may be taken as made.) It'd be fun to do something with more serious dancing and a different vocal style.

Meanwhile, I also reminded myself that there's an ongoing modern dance class at the Green St. Studios in Central Square (I took the beginner series a couple years back with my friend Joy), and I'm seriously thinking I should go back. Dance! Contra dancing is one kind of sheer joy, but I think it'd push me in a good direction to work on something with more technique to it. To see just what I can do.

Sometimes I think a major reason Jonathan groks me so well is that he's a dancer at heart too.

Comments

[navrins]

navrins always has nits to pick about any dramatic production. It's why he directs. (Yes, I have nits to pick even when I do direct, but fewer and smaller than usual. At least so far.)

But nits don't mean I didn't like it.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Well, right. I understand that quite well about you, and didn't mean to imply that your enjoyment was impaired. :-)

Speaking of dancing....

[zogathon.livejournal.com]

Wanna take bellydancing at some point? I've wanted to for ages....

quite contrary

[cthulhia]

It took a while before I got the sneaking suspicion that mary doesn't, in fact, hate my guts. She's just an introvert (comparatively) and vaguely weirded out when she bumps into people, especially someone as extroverted as either of us.

Don't take it personally. hanging out with that circle helps me work towards being less inappropriate outside of planet susponia.

Although, "killing her with kindness" might score you some fantastic book recommendations.

Re: quite contrary

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

It took a while before I got the sneaking suspicion that mary doesn't, in fact, hate my guts. She's just an introvert (comparatively) and vaguely weirded out

Well, but that's you. She does hate mine. ;-) No, seriously; there's more history to this than I should get into right here. But, even though her dislike of me is personally directed -- knowing the details, I really don't take it personally (if that makes any sense).

Re: Speaking of dancing....

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Funky! I could see trying that out. (There was some awesome bellydancing done at Arisia last year [*wave* to participants].) Do you know somewhere to take it?

modern dance, neither modern or dancing. discuss.

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

I did modern dance in 5th grade in Alabama. Can you imagine the working-class Alabamian version of modern dance?!

Re: Speaking of dancing....

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Oooh, so have I!

Re: Speaking of dancing....

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

News flash! Belly dancing instruction will be offered at Arisia, Fridya night at 10:30pm! (and possibly at other times, I didn't read over the whole programming schedule)