Sweet are the uses of adversity!
Jul. 3rd, 2005 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhWell, I'm annoyed that after spending ninety minutes in the purgatory that is the Time Warner Cable "Express" and then lugging my new DVR-enabled cable box around the East Village, I ended up fucking up and not recording Live 8 after all. On the other hand, if the small amount of it I saw while not-quite-napping yesterday afternoon was typical, I would have been fast-forwarding through hours of yammering from Sway (whom I cannot stand) in order to see The Who. I think I can wait for the DVD.
I did manage to add CSI, Good Eats, Mythbusters and Best Week Ever to my "series" list, as well as the show that feeds my bizarre obsession with UK real estate, Location, Location, Location, which I watched over breakfast this morning.
Saw My Summer of Love on Friday with CC & Josh and I rather liked it. The two lead girls, and the older brother were really fantastic.
Yesterday I woke up quite early to go sit on a blanket on Lafayette St, outside the Public Theater, for free tickets to Shakespeare in the Park. The six hours of waiting with Emily and some friends of hers passed quickly (you know, for six hours of waiting) and we were rewarded with third row tickets for As You Like It. The weather was really lovely—morning really is the best time in summer, as it hasn't heated up yet. I came home and crashed, then whipped up some veg and dip for our pre-theater picnic in the park.
The show was really excellent, and so well cast. (I shudder to think of a young Katherine Hepburn as Rosalind in the movie version; she may cross-dress but she needs more tenderness than that.) After, we walked down CPW. It was a truly lovely evening, a great day, and so much of it spent out of doors!
I've also finally purchased some books, a good thing since my job ends in two weeks and I'm off to a CA and TX vaca. On my reading list for July are Holly's Valiant (which I'm saving for the plane; her books are absolutely perfect plane reading because they really do just absorb you and transport you to another place), Julie's It's in His Kiss (Hyacinth Bridgerton and a rogue—how can you go wrong?), about ten volumes of manga (Fruits Basket 10, Kare Kano 13-16, and the 5-vol series Imadoki).
Oh, yeah. And Half Blood Prince.
I really should clean. I really should write. Maybe I'll do both or something.
I did manage to add CSI, Good Eats, Mythbusters and Best Week Ever to my "series" list, as well as the show that feeds my bizarre obsession with UK real estate, Location, Location, Location, which I watched over breakfast this morning.
Saw My Summer of Love on Friday with CC & Josh and I rather liked it. The two lead girls, and the older brother were really fantastic.
Yesterday I woke up quite early to go sit on a blanket on Lafayette St, outside the Public Theater, for free tickets to Shakespeare in the Park. The six hours of waiting with Emily and some friends of hers passed quickly (you know, for six hours of waiting) and we were rewarded with third row tickets for As You Like It. The weather was really lovely—morning really is the best time in summer, as it hasn't heated up yet. I came home and crashed, then whipped up some veg and dip for our pre-theater picnic in the park.
The show was really excellent, and so well cast. (I shudder to think of a young Katherine Hepburn as Rosalind in the movie version; she may cross-dress but she needs more tenderness than that.) After, we walked down CPW. It was a truly lovely evening, a great day, and so much of it spent out of doors!
I've also finally purchased some books, a good thing since my job ends in two weeks and I'm off to a CA and TX vaca. On my reading list for July are Holly's Valiant (which I'm saving for the plane; her books are absolutely perfect plane reading because they really do just absorb you and transport you to another place), Julie's It's in His Kiss (Hyacinth Bridgerton and a rogue—how can you go wrong?), about ten volumes of manga (Fruits Basket 10, Kare Kano 13-16, and the 5-vol series Imadoki).
Oh, yeah. And Half Blood Prince.
I really should clean. I really should write. Maybe I'll do both or something.
