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February 19, 2001
Whee!
Fun, fun weekend. Much needed, what with work being all stressful, and the quitting smoking thing (I tried to stop cold last week, which didn't work -- I haven't been on the happy pills long enough. So I caved and bought a pack on Saturday. Feh.)
Friday night -- utterly dull. Hung around the house waiting for a grocery delivery, talked on the phone with a friend I haven't seen in ages, watched TV, went to sleep. Because that's the wild life I lead.
Saturday, I loafed around the house and read a book all day. I found the perfect reading spot -- in the living room, in to corner by the windows. The light is perfect, there's a coffee table to rest your feet and a beverage on, and usually a cat or two sleeping nearby. Unfortunately, both chairs are horribly uncomfortable, so the Saturday read-fest was hampered by wishes for a better chair. Saturday night was Patrick's play, with Lee and Saundra! I was terribly excited to meet her, and very, very nervous ("What if she hates me? What if she thinks I'm an idiot?") She's one of the coolest, most fun people I've ever met. We got along excellently (and if she thought I was an idiot, she didn't let it show) and it was very nice to have someone to smoke with, in the freezing cold.
Patrick's show was excellent -- I wished I'd been able to see the play Friday night too (which I could have, if not for my own stupid planning). All of the actors were good, and Patrick was deliciously villianous. He was right when he described it as a Show of Asses, though -- it wasn't so bad from where we were sitting, but the people on the other side of the theatre were treated to up close and personal views of the actors' asses all through the show.
We tagged along to the cast party afterward (except for Lee, who went home in spite of -- or perhaps because of Saundra and I whining, loudly and in stereo, at her to come to the party too.) It was more fun than I'd expected -- being a non-theatre person, I was worried that I'd feel out of place. But everyone was very friendly -- it was amusing when people would strike up conversations with me, assuming I'd had something to do with the show. They'd obviously be wracking their brains, trying to figure out who I was and what I'd done -- I got a lot of "So... what did you do again?" type questions. Hey, sitting in the audience is important, right?
Sunday, I cajoled Lee out of the house for some shopping -- I desperately needed new jeans, and I certainly needed a new book (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy in one volume -- the paperback, though I was drooling over the lovely, illustrated hardcover edition. I didn't have $70 to spend, though. I have hardcover copies of all three books, but they're very old, and since my brother and I both read them over and over when we were kids, the binding is in sad shape. I'm afraid to reread them, for fear that they'll fall apart completely.) Friday night, Patrick and Muppetgirl came over to Lee's, and we all headed out to see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which MuppetGirl hadn't seen yet. Just as good the second time, in spite of the audience being filled with people who would not shut up. I would have told the incessantly-yapping kids behind me to can it, but since everyone else in the theater felt compelled to blab through the whole film, it hardly seemed worth it.
Today, even though it's a holiday, I'm at work...
Posted by Mary Ellen at February 19, 2001 10:44 AM