My weekend: Speed Ratings!

[chanaleh]

(in the tradition of the Brunching Shuttlecocks Book of Ratings**)


Friday evening:
Having a minyan by 6:40 to start a 6:30 service: B
The new sandwich place in Central Square: A-
    Creativity of the name Pressed Sandwiches: D
    Graphic design treatment of same: A
    Cheerful willingness to let us in for dinner fifteen minutes after posted closing: A+
ablock's plan to drive to NJ after shul: C-
ablock's revised plan to drive to NJ Very Early on Saturday: B+
Katamari Damacy:
    Opening graphics: A
    Theme music: A(aaaaaaaah!)
    The King of All the Cosmos: Uh...
    Actual game play: B
Muppet Mystery Disaster Monster Adventure: B+
Motion sickness induced by same: D
Getting self home and to bed relatively early: B

Bat mitzvah Saturday morning:
Not having to personally learn any Torah reading: B+
Massive crowds of strangers: C+
Getting to squeeze my nearest and dearest into one pew: A-
Dvar torah tracing the tachash to the One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater: A
Kiddush: A+
Sunshine: A+
Purple boots in hot sunshine: C-

Clothing swap:
hammercock and the rest of GLSE for hosting: A+
Getting rid of two armloads of decent-but-underused clothing: A
Taking home an armload of decent-and-potentially-more-useful clothing in exchange: B
Cute girls running around in skivvies: A (hey, I may be straight but I'm not dead)
Weather too hot to try on winter sweaters: B-
Sacrilicious Last Supper vest: D
... except on studly lapsed-Catholic antihero trowa_barton: A-
Club-clothing pickings for kalessin: I (incomplete)
Subsequent findings in Harvard Square for same: B+

Saturday night outing to Waltham:
Weather: A
Showing mangosteen the 70 bus route straight up Rte. 20 to Waltham Center: A-
Walking around Moody St. for the first time in ages: A-
Getting to see laurion's a cappella concert: A-
Costume-change scheme (black pants with white shirts for the more "choral" first set, colored shirts for the more "pop" second set): B
BBQ for post-concert dinner: B-
Heartfelt (and ultimately deep) conversation with an old friend: ... priceless.

Sunday morning:
Sitting up unable to sleep until 1am: D
Waking up rested at 7:45 with no alarm: A-
Going back to sleep... later: A
Sleeping until 11:45am: B-
Cinnamon chocolate-chip banana pancakes: A-
"Good relations with the cookies have I had": A+
Spending all of a leisurely morning and afternoon with Tiger Boy: A++

Dresden Dolls video shoot:
kalessin's raver-kid shorts: B
bookteacher's flame-job Chuck Taylors: OMG A
Scoring a parking space just across the street from the Paradise: A
Street cleaning beginning at midnight: C-
Street-theater aspect of the line-waiting: A
Power outage on the entire block delaying scheduled doors-open by roughly THREE HOURS: F
Energy of the crowd inside the club after 3-hour wait: C-
Victrola-esque pre-show music including "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" and "Anything Goes": B+
Hearing the complete sequence one and a half times through because setting and resetting the pre-show stuff took ANOTHER BLOODY HOUR: D
Interview conducted by Christopher Lydon: A-
Lexington High School Drama Club's interpretive-dance piece: B-
ASL/interpretive-dance performance of "Half Jack": B+
David Armand's mime rendition of "Torn" of which it unavoidably reminded me: A
Actual set (scheduled for 7:30) finally beginning at 11:20pm: D-
Leaving at 11:35, too tired to care anymore: C
Coming back to hear "Missed Me" which started up just as we were leaving: B+
Leaving anyway after that, to the strains of "Coin-Operated Boy": C-
Timing of ablock's car pulling up to the corner just as we stepped out: A+
Sushi, as concept: A
Sushi, as reality: B-
Accompanying bad Japanese karaoke at ear-splitting volume, which began just as we sat down and ended just as we were getting up: D-

Overall weekend:
Activities: B-
Weather: A
Wardrobe: A-
Company: A+

And now, if not Diesel, at least dinner.

Edit, 10pm: Um, yeah. Have been resting quietly at home for 2+ hours, and the local anesthetic is definitely wearing off. This may explain my general underwhelmedness with the evening. (Yes, I have taken ibuprofen. No, the aching has not yet subsided. Yes, I am tossing around looking for the position in which gravity is least annoying.)

Also, I forgot to go look for a copy of Paladin of Souls today, which I meant to do so that I would have it tonight. Meh.

On the other hand, every single one of you should go read this book. On which note, I'm seriously going to bed now.

**And now I am just waiting for one of you to pipe up and say that you went to college with Lore Sjöberg.

Comments

[besamim.livejournal.com]

9 1/2 hours of sleep every night? Get real.

For my part, 7 to 8 hours is just right for me. Less than 7, especially after 2 or more consecutive nights, and I get sluggish and, in the fall/winter, often catch cold. More than 9 and I'm too wired and anxious the next day, and have trouble falling asleep the next night.

I'm of the opinion that every healthy adult needs to find their own amount of sleep that gives them optimal health and productivity, never mind the one-size-fits-all experts.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you haven't read the detailed case this particular book makes regarding metabolism and hormone cycles (the pandemic disorder of which is the cause of the so-called "Metabolic Syndrome" that is so drastically on the rise).

And what they say is not really that all adults need 9.5 hours, but rather that sleep cycles "in nature" range seasonally from 8 to 14 hours, which complements the seasonal availability of different kinds of nutrition -- and that getting roughly 9.5 hours helps your body process the metabolic load of carbohydrates available in our society, in a way that it cannot otherwise.

[muffyjo]

Hope you find a comfortable position, soon!!!

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

Sacrilicious Last Supper vest: D
... except on studly lapsed-Catholic antihero [info]trowa_barton: A-
I preen in your general direction ;)

[marmota.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Also, I forgot to go look for a copy of Paladin of Souls today...
Apparently there's a sequel out!

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

I thought Paladin of Souls *was* the sequel...

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

It's Book 2, but Book 3 is now out in hardcover. :-)

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

Remember, the first sight our guests had of the newly-married Mr. mangosteen and Ms. bookteacher was the two of us walking into the reception hall in matching flame-colored Chucks (to the Rebel Fanfare from Ep 4, natch).

Thanks for the A, though. [grin]

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Ha! I never heard that part of the story. Awesome!

about your userpic

[magid.livejournal.com]

Have you read Robin McKinley's Sunshine?

Re: about your userpic

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

No! I heard about it, though, and plan to.

For the uninitiated: the userpic for this entry is from Sluggy Freelance (along with the one for this comment).

[memerath.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Sorry to hear about the bad DD experience. ;(

A++

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

You obviously believe in grade inflation. Here at UW, A is the highest grade.

Then again, in the Potterverse, "A" stands for "Acceptable" and is analogous, I suppose, to our C, C-.

Re: A++

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Love the icon. ;-)

I assure you, the extra credit toward an A++ was well and duly earned.
And that's all I have to say about that.

[skreeky]

Saw this photo and felt an LJ icon coming on... take if you want.



http://kriss.smugmug.com/photos/24530807-L.jpg

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Hey, I forgot to thank you for pointing this out. :-) it's excellent!