Since I'm looking forward to moving soon, I'm trying to thin the herd of random costume pieces I've managed to accumulate over the years. Check out the photos on Flickr, and leave comments there or here if you'd like anything. All prices are negotiable (especially if you're in the SF Bay Area so I don't have to ship it). Leave a comment  1 

Bye Zeke, thanks for every time you made me smile backstage at the Dawn contest. It made me feel so special that you remembered me, and I always looked forward to seeing you. I wished you were here this year, but now, I'm glad you were spending the time with your family instead. We'll all miss you so much.

I had to buy today's Shirt!Woot. Go on, music folks, hum the notes to yourself, and then start giggling. You can thank me later. :D

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Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. In lieu of anything traditional, I present this paean to the nursing profession instead. If anyone needs me, I'll just be over in the corner with my box of Kleenex.

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"The London Symphony Orchestra plays the Internet Symphony No. 1 "Eroica" - for YouTube, conducted by Tan Dun." It's also composed by Tan Dun, and there's a YouTube Channel devoted to it where potential players can 'audition' and practice in the hopes of performing it in April in Carnegie Hall under the baton of MTT ( Read more... )

Okay. I'll freely admit it. I was crying tears of joy while I watched Obama's speech, sitting on a futon in the attic with my roommates, all of us huddled around our tiny TV with its aluminum foil antenna and correspondingly crappy reception. To make it even better, I was on the phone with my parents as they listened to the speech on NPR, which ( Read more... )

I made the nursing-geekiest joke today. I was making apple cider, and since it had gone straight from the fridge to the stove, there was a lot of condensation on the outside of the pot which was hissing on the flames. My roommate was also cooking, and she looked over in surprise at the noise ( Read more... )

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A quote from one of my Mom's weekly letters to me that I wanted to share, talking about "taking caring, creative action to improve a [person]'s quality of life ( Read more... )

I need to share the joy with all of you, and so I present the following video. This is the 'Vengeance duet' that I mentioned earlier. The video quality sucks, but the voices are FANTASTIC.

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I may add more later, but I'm just listening to this one over and over again for now.