I have only seen parts of it, but I have heard so much about it I would like to finally see it ( Read more... )

Avenue Q, the Broadway puppet show for adults, featuring the infamous song "The Internet Is For Porn," will be playing at the Fox Theater in Atlanta Tuesday, March 25 through Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 8:00pm. I plan a pilgrimage to the theater to buy tickets this Saturday, December 22 at 11am, avoiding the evil TicketMaster ( Read more... )

Friends invited us to join them last night at Shakespeare Tavern to see "Lettice & Lovage" - a play by Peter Shaffer. We had heard nothing ahead of time except that it was not a Shakespeare play. When the evening came, I had stayed home from work with a new cold, but since we had plans and I had been cooped up all day I decided to go ( Read more... )

Last night I went to get my DragonCon badge. I took MARTA downtown to avoid having to park near the con. I brought a book with me (Cordelia's Honor, from a friend's "required reading" list) to pass the time on the train. Having a book and not having to get anywhere at a particular time means that transit time and waiting for a train are not wasted ( Read more... )

I approach my delivery target cautiously, parking far enough down the road to escape notice. There is a car in the driveway with its lights on. Is it arriving or departing? Seconds feel like minutes. I phone home to see if my secret plan has been revealed and the person in the driveway is waiting for me, but just then a dark figure gets in the car ( Read more... )

I usually feel very happy and well-adjusted, but occasionally there are times when I feel really, really bad. I don't want to take it out on innocent people and I don't want to lose myself in endless unhappy introspection, so I have found some good ways to at least dissipate the negative energy. None of this helps directly with the problem I am ( Read more... )

I did not have a big party this year for my birthday, just had a pleasant dinner out with a few friends and invited them home for dessert. I heard that when people asked Rachel for gift ideas, she said "something translucent or sparkly." That advice resulted in a pair of "see behind you" glasses from the Spy Shop (which I plan to try while biking) ( Read more... )

We did it, after two weekends full of lessons and tests in the classroom and pool at Georgia Tech, we finished our scuba class with a certification trip. When people ask our instructor where the best diving in Georgia is, he answers "Florida."

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We had a very mulitmodal Thanksgiving trip visiting rslatkin's family in Connecticut. Hybrid car, MARTA train, Atlanta airport people mover, plane, Newark monorail, New Jersey transit train to Penn Station, NY (NOT to Penn Station, NJ - whose bright idea was it to name two stations near each other the same thing ( Read more... )

Famous people I enjoyed seeing:

Ellen Muth, star of Showtime's "Dead Like Me"
Daikaiju, a strange, fun, loud band
Denise Crosby, Tasha Yar, Star Trek Next Generation
George Takei, Sulu, original Star Trek
Summer Glau, River, Firefly/Serenity
Alan Tudyk, Wash, Firefly/Serenity
Mira Furlan, Delenn, Babylon 5
Peter Jurasik, Londo Mollari, Babylon 5
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