I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

... for talking on Saturday night about her chronic weakness for bass players. ;-) Sunday morning I had a dream about one of my exes -- the bassist, naturally, back in Indiana, the only person to ever make me think for more than 30 seconds about moving back there. ( the details of the dream are not so important, nor is my nattering on about affairs long gone by )

(Oh yeah, so, the book that's eaten my life for the last six weeks was duly shipped off to press today! w00t! queue and I left early [read: a whole ten minutes to 5pm] for drinks to celebrate. Tomorrow... on to the Cryptoclub! Oh, also my third book cover is coming out next month. :-)

(On the other hand, I have apparently lost my hat. The Best Hat in the World. I had it walking from the office, and I thought I had it waiting for the train, but I think it was gone by the time I got to Diesel, and I didn't notice for sure until leaving Redbones. Crap. My life is already colder for the lack of it. Wonder if the commuter rail has a lost & found?)

Happy birthday, mrmorse!
I'm amused that we're going to be neighbors soon.

Have been off LJ all day due to taking today off work... on which more later.
Shabbat shalom, y'all.

Quiet Friday night at home involving a decent tofu stir-fry.
"Put-in" and orientation to our stage space.
Brief appearance at shul to hug the newly returned one.
Freelance work, phase 1 completed.
Dinner and movie with the newly birthdayed one.
Slept soundly until 9:45 this morning.
Laundry done.
Satisfactory rehearsal.
Wonderful outing to the highly enjoyable Much Ado, including very nearly everyone I might have reasonably wished to have along.
Bennigan's afterwards: "Seriously, you guys, this is the best date I've been on all month."
I am surrounded with love.
Bed now.

The first off-book rehearsal wasn't actually that bad. Well, until we got to Act II. May all things that bestow blessing bestow it on greenlily for her patience in feeding us our lines. (At least it wasn't the same sense in which she was feeding them to navrins *before* our break...)

Forgot to ask if we're still interested in lining up someone to tape the performances, though. Maybe I'll send a quick e-mail.

In the past several days I:
( did a bunch of pleasant social things )

The 4th: Enjoyed the "Cambridge Esplanade" very much. Got to see Joy & Ben for the first time in ages. Fireworks were superb as usual, including a bunch of effects I've never even seen before. Plus, among the folks that turned up by evening were adamhmorse and Anise, and with them mrmorse... and I don't care what any of you say, it was good to have my boy by my side. In whatever capacity.

Elsewise, had a fairly quiet weekend. Saw Spider-Man 2 after shul on Friday night. As noted by navrins, saw King John, which I also enjoyed. Helped Matthew get a couple of resumes out, which is a trend to be reinforced! Went to a low-key quasi-pool-party and a low-key Menschen rehearsal sing-along. Paused rereading Order of the Phoenix to reread Chamber of Secrets, which JKR says holds "some very important clues to the ultimate end of the series"...

Must establish a new e-mail solution, and soon. (Go on using chanaleh at livejournal, I'll be sure to alias that appropriately.)
Must make a list of everything else I need to do, for work AND home.

I would feel better if I didn't have this ache in my hip for the second day running. Not the joint so much as the muscle: the TFL, as near as I can tell. Right side only, arrrgh. I'm trying to stretch it but it's difficult, especially when sitting all day. This reinforces my longing for a professional therapeutic massage; maybe once my reimbursement check (for that other therapy) comes through -- which I badly need, any day now, please. Meanwhile, I shall go walk around and stretch for the rest of my lunch hour.