I have not been able to do my usual SYTYCD posts as I've been busy at work and also exhausted.  But brief thoughts on this week...  ( thoughts )

Whee, the season kicks off for real now!  ( Read more... )

I'll be doing a 20 minute dinnertime set at Khayyam Restaurant, 404 Harvard Street, Brookline, Friday evening--traditional Arabic show, starting sometime between 7:30 and 8:30.  This is a new venue for performing and the owner is very enthusiastic about making dance a regular feature of his restaurant.  The food is Persian-rooted pan-Mediterranean ( Read more... )

( I already disagree with the judges! )

More Torchwood!!!  YAY!!!!

(I will miss seeing Wales, but the radio play that was set in India was quite fine, so I am happily open-minded on the location score)

I forgot to mention that M ran into our former upstairs neighbors.  A family with a four-year-old and a newborn moved into our old apartment.  Ha, I bet you all miss the quiet black-clad ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got bangs/a fringe.  I'm quite liking it.  Everybody's reaction has been very positive, although one of our receptionists at the office said I look 15.  She said that like it was a good thing, though.  (for the belly dancers in the room, whenever I walk by a mirror I think "throw me in an 80s Pharonics and call me Lucy ( Read more... )

I just ate a sesame-walnut-swiss chard-fresh mozarella flatbread and an umm ali from Sofra and I feel like a giant smear of grease but it was oh so worth it.  Happy happy tummy!
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I planted stuff in my balcony garden and it felt very very good :-)  One pot seems to have gone AWOL in the move, I hope it turns up as it was a nice ceramic one.  But I now have gazania (I thought I was buying a flat of multi-colored ones, but upon getting home I found they were all yellow--Yellow Kiss, to be exact--oh well, I guess they'll match ( Read more... )

I watched Herzog's Bad Lieutenant:  Port of Call New Orleans last night.  Really mixed feelings about it.  ( not too spoilery, but no promises )

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