Pre-Passover thoughts (food, music, and book stuff)

[chanaleh]

Last night was the second-and-final performance of my opera group's Le Médecin Malgré Lui (Gounod, based on Molière), on which I was assisting/stage-managing (and which I kept wanting to call Le Médecin Sans Merci, which I guess would fit just as well with the overt S&M overtones in the storyline, but ANYway!). I was in kind of a crap mood due to angsty conversations earlier in the day, and only trading chocolate for hugs from the wicked-cute Israeli lead tenor brought a smile to my face. So, but after the show, I bagged on the beer-and-burgers outing with the cast in order to come home, have a proper drink, cook some chicken, and finish up the Book Project of Doom for today's deadline.

I said to myself, "I must be getting old."

Totally worth it, though. First thing this morning I shipped the complete revised text and cover files, so pending the second round of proofs, it should actually get printed in the first half of April, yay! The author tells me the Boston Globe just did an interview with him that should come out on April 13 for Patriots' Day, which would be very very good timing to release the book. I will post more about it then.

And the chicken was roasted with herbs on a bed of collard greens, onions, and sweet potatoes, and oh was it good. Before bed, I took most of the meat off the bones (just in time to feed some to justom when he got home), and then this morning I put the bones into the crockpot, where they are merrily souping away. I also made a kale-onion-mushroom-Brie frittata for lunch. With what I've learned about the whole paleo thing this year, I am looking forward to Passover more than ever before, foodwise.

And since then I've been nattering around getting stuff done on the computer today, including writing a post to the pro blog (reminder: eschultz72, go and follow) about the music of Mark Ettinger, a.k.a. Alexei Karamazov of the FKB. I've shared songs of his in two completely different contexts this week, with people who liked them a lot, so it seemed an opportune time to write up something public about the backstory.

Lastly, I leave you all with this video gem:
The Maccabeats' Les Misérable, A Passover Story

and from my other fangirl favorites, Six13:
Six13 - Pesach Shop (2013 Passover Jam)

Off to get changed for seder! Chag sameach!