The rock I've been under

[chanaleh]

I have, it seems, largely been living on coffee and air for most of the past week.

For those of you playing along at home, it went like this:

Thursday night: started in earnest on Melanie's ketubah

Friday afternoon: finished Retro Hugo/GoH programme

Saturday night: finished Melanie's ketubah

Sunday: led shul group daytrip to Rockport; High Holiday rehearsal.

Monday: 20s&30s planning meeting (behold! our fall schedule!); fix small error on Melanie's ketubah.

Tuesday: finished Hugo* and First Night programmes; laid out shul newsletter.

Today: approved proofs on shul brochure that has to be delivered Friday; send real live final press versions of all three N4 pubs, and officially put off the remaining one until next week (assuming I get any content to lay out).

*You know what this means, right? Right? Neil Gaiman will see something I designed, that's what.

Also today, have spent hours on end positioning picture boxes and captions in Quark for work work. Then freaked myself out by accidentally "sleeping" my Mac into oblivion (shift-command-0, from which there appears to be no earthly recourse but to reboot). Fortunately, it turned out I had saved within a couple of keystrokes previously. A well-cultivated reflex, good to have.

Late dinner date tonight with Tiger Boy at Rialto as part of Restaurant Week. I've more been anticipating the company, but I'm starting to get excited about the dinner as well. :-)

Tomorrow: Mom arrives from California for weekend visit! Must test air mattress for leaks.

Friday: daytime, probably hang around Boston (Duck Tour?); evening, drag her to shul, then dinner at (perhaps) Mary Chung's.

Saturday: daytime, lunch with Erick, possible North Shore tourism; evening, take her to play Scrabble at Diesel with marfta & Co.

Sunday: brunch? and 3:45pm return flight.

Comments

[dragonfriek.livejournal.com]

I believe this is the week of Tuesdays, so Mary's is closed.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Ah. Oh well. Duly noted. Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

That's worth double-checking. I thought the week of Tuesdays ended this past Wednesday.

[jessruth.livejournal.com]

Wow, you make me feel positively carefree! And all I've been doing lately is nonstop new-teacher all-day seminars (every day since last Wednesday) and buying stuff to set up my classroom! Latest coup concerning the latter: one 6x9 carpet-blue rug (aptly named, I suppose) and one 5x7 transportation-themed rug - Home Depot sale price, $59 combined. Nice!.

A reminder to us all: Breathe...

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Carpet-blue? Are there blue carpets that *aren't*, technically, carpet-blue? (If G-d can do anything, can G-d make a rock so heavy even G-d can't lift it?)

Breathe!

[jessruth.livejournal.com]

"Carpet blue", as my particular choice of phrase, was, in my mind, apt simply because the particular color of the rug reminds me of the carpet blue crayon in the 64-crayon box. I wonder if it's still a color?

shuffling off to check my own box of 64...

Okay, I am distressed. I cannot seem to find the Carpet Blue crayon in the box. Now I'm wondering if I'm misremembering the name of the color and instead remembering "cadet blue", which I did find.

A mystery is afoot (well, a-crayon)....

[mattblum.livejournal.com]

Carpet Blue does seem to be a real color, at least for flowers (page found via GIS).

[jessruth.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I feel so validated.

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

How is it that you are not completely exhausted at all times?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I tell you, coffee. And air. :-)

Beyond that... sometimes I think it's like being manic without the depressive. Perhaps I have a 20-year down spell coming to me.

[ckd]

Sounds like Arde Mayhew's comment about Miles in The Warrior's Apprentice: "You mean he's like that all the time?"

[navrins]

Don't forget to eat. Eating is important.

[saxikath]

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you know marfta; you've proven yourself a nexus over and over again. :) Now I'm just wondering if the Melanie whose ketubah you did is the Melanie whose wedding I'm going to on Sunday!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Most likely!

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Wow, me too! And Mrs. Sanpaku is a bridesmaid. Small world, this Greater Boston!

[saxikath]

Oh, you're kidding me! Just to be sure: Michael and Melanie?

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. This is too weird!

Melanie went to Hopkins for grad school -- in psychology, and I was in history. We met at the Jewish Students Association there. Really she was closer to my wife because they were in an a capella singing group together. And now of course she "lives" in Providence, so we have been able to keep up with her.

In another very circular development, I took credit for suggesting to Melanie that she contact chanaleh about doing the ketubah, which was what sparked this thread... The weird part is that chanaleh was just someone whose journal I found and then it turned out she and Melanie go to the same shul, and she knows a lot of friends of another friend of mine, and so on.

From the way you phrase it, do you know Michael better, then? If I guessed out of nowhere, is it some kind of dancing or singing connection?

[saxikath]

No, actually I've never met Michael. I know Melanie from Legends, the LARP we both play.

This is now bringing together people I know in three completely independent ways (chanaleh from MITG&S, you from DLI, and Melanie from Legends). My brain hurts.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Dude. I never even knew Melanie did Legends. :-)

The things you learn!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Forgot to add... I know marfta through kalessin. *waves*

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

You know what this means, right? Right? Neil Gaiman will see something I designed, that's what.

Ooooo. That's great!

[xdaemon.livejournal.com]

Heh... and my current plan is to get his autograph... on the Hugo ceremony program. It will be immortalized.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Aww yeah!

(And I left lots of room on the front cover, I guess, suitable for autographing....)

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

1) Heard you met my close lj-friend bram before he left town. Cool.

2) Still nursing the hope you will apply to poetryslamming and the less-tough fictionslamming ... or at least join, say, heart_on or write_away.

3) Since I know you are a skilled sonneteer, I was hoping for your feedback on the following early draft:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/kvschwartz/1224534.html#comments

Hope you are well.

Yrs,

Kevin

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I'd love to compare your Hugo program to my Hugo nominee certificates and see how close we came to each other, but I don't expect the certificates to be lying around... maybe I'll bring along a prototype. :-)