Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate with you. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given. Questions courtesy ofmasqlab . These are great questions on her part, since in thinking about how to answer them I realized I'd have written differently about some of them just a few months ago, to say nothing of ( Read more... )

New pics documenting the recent excursion to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, now in the appropriately-named Ashland08 scrapbook. Link to gallery:   http://pics.livejournal.com/greyjoy/ . Fellow LJers pjtanton and mudcactus , as well as friends who don't do this online journaling thing, joined me for the trip.

Thumbnail play reviews:

Othello - Powerful ( Read more... )

Stolen from masqlab !

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a completely made up, fictional memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want - good or bad - but it has to be fake.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends ( Read more... )

...in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon!

Anyone who has spent more than an hour in my company knows that I loathe flying. I hate the entire process, from the packing to the airport, and from the taxi to the landing. I'm a nervous flier, too, unable to quite trust that the hundreds of people who must perform their jobs perfectly in order to keep my ( Read more... )

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A troupe of theatre-goers-anaka and myself, and two of our mutual friends, one of whom is a newly-minted goer-ventured out into the Seattle damp this weekend to see the Seattle Rep’s Twelfth Night, at the Bagley Wright Theatre in Seattle Center. Mistaken identities, improbable coincidences, women disguised as men, moonstruck lovers, a singing fool, a ( Read more... )

The inimitable winterjaye (go ahead, try to imitate her, I dare you)ventured forth to the Frye Art Museum this weekend, where we beheld an exhibit of art by Patricia Piccinini, an Australian artist whose mixed media show "Hug" explores the confusing and sometimes frightening relationships between humans and the lifeforms they may create in the near future. ( Read more... )

Actually more than a weekend: I took Friday off, cashing in a bit of the comp time promised by management in recognition of the fact that May was an absolute kidney stone of a month at the office. And like a kidney stone, its passing was painful and bloody. In partial recompense I spent the day in the dubious-yet-gentle company of the corvidae- ( Read more... )

This morning dawned overcast and chill, hinting at a happier time of year when wind carries a rumor of frost and the trees are dressed in gold and flame and bronze. It warmed up later, of course, but standing at the window and breathing in the cool morning air, I could close my eyes and enjoy a tangible reminder that, in maybe six weeks if I'm ( Read more... )

goldenmina and I had a trouble-free direct flight from Boston to Seattle (very, very early) this morning, and we're home now ( Read more... )