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Prof.B. working from home is both good and bad.
I went to the gym after work. Did a half-hour on the elliptical (interval program), pedaled backwards for second half. (mile 1 - 11:17, mile 2 - 22:52) Then I did a half hour on the rowing machine.
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Mike&Meredith hosted a Game Night. I only ever seem to be able to attend the ones they host :)
Michelle's been talking about how she read Anton LaVey's The Satanic Bible, and I'm starting to want to read it 'cause she talks about how LaVey is such a good writer.
Michelle recommended Elaine Pagels' The Origin of Satan to Sue. Anyone have thoughts? I remember being unimpressed by Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, and I seem to recall that I've heard mixed things about Elaine Pagels.
She also explained the difference between a pentacle and a pentagram, which was news to me.
At one point during the night, Michelle said approvingly, "I'm getting my back rubbed by a cute girl." (I was sitting behind her on a piano bench.) She hadn't heard from her boyfriend since Tuesday and next time she talks to him she's gonna tell him: "There are plenty of people happy to take me off your hands, if calling me once a week is too back-breaking for you" and totally namedrop me :)
Michelle was telling me about this online survey that had as one of its questions: "Who would you HIGH-FIVE right now?"
She said she cracked up laughing, and thought of me.
At one point she said she (we?) needed to get psyched up... that the jazz music in the other room just wasn't doing it for her. I knew what was coming, but when she busted out with, "Shot through the heart!" I still nearly died laughing. [ref.]
At one point, Sue asked, "Were you two separated at birth?"
I said normally Michelle prompts a lot of "This is my tolerant face" from me, but that we happened to be focusing on the stuff we mutually geek out about.
Michelle says next time we marathon HIMYM we're inviting Sue and Catherine. I pointed out we're most of the way through S1; she said we'll start over, she's happy to rewatch.
We played Apples to Apples.
I got intense (Black Holes - Mike) and corrupt (My Love Life - Michelle).
The last hand we played before people had to start getting home (it was like midnight) was "spunky" and the final choices were "Rock & Roll" or "Girlfriends" -- my card and Trelawney's, respectively. Trelawney enlisted peer pressure, and not actually wanting to be spunky, I was ok with forfeiting to her.
Saturday
I was gonna go to the gym but ended up sleeping for an eternity. ::confused::
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collegecate and I went to see Titus Andronicus, with dinner at Tamarind Bay beforehand, and dessert at Finale afterward.
I had Nezami Handi ("Mix Vegetables with spinach in almond sauce.") It very much wasn't what I was expecting, but I liked it, and though I was surprised at the apparent small amount of food, I was full at the end.
Anyway, Titus Andronicus. That was a very disturbing play.
Back when we watched The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and Emma couldn't stomach it, I said, "But you love Titus," never having seen or read the play myself. Now that I've seen it, I stand by that statement more strongly.
Also: there was a moment wherein a character gagged another by stuffing a piece of paper in his mouth.
Yeah, that a dessert place has a buy-one-get-one-free promotion with a production of Titus Andronicus is a bit disturbing :) I'd actually never been to finale before. I ordered a Manjari Mousse. Not to die for, but that was okay.
The company that did Titus Andronicus... their 2007-2008 season is: Macbeth, Henry V, The Tempest, King John; and the coda to the 2006-2007 season is Love's Labour's Lost.
I am undecided.
Cate lives near Coolidge Corner. Good to know for future midnight showings. [midnight showings permalink] I wouldn't have gone to the prom thing anyway -- though because '"Everything's funnier when seminarians do it," I will be at ANTS next Friday :)
Sunday
I dreamt that I happened to visit the library and I saw Terry in the old children's room with a young daughter. Awake, I have decided this was Tallessyn's daughters, whom I see at Cambridge Welcoming every Sunday (especially since my dream self seemed to think Terry had two daughters) but it was very bizarre since that is not how he normally shows up in my dreams.
Last night I was telling Cate that I was considering taking an Intro to Islam course at the extension school next year. However, trying to come up with a bibliography and thesis for my 15-page research paper for my Medieval Church class is making me wanna drop out of school. I also dislike that I've been in a poor mood all day because of it.
Prof.B. working from home is both good and bad.
I went to the gym after work. Did a half-hour on the elliptical (interval program), pedaled backwards for second half. (mile 1 - 11:17, mile 2 - 22:52) Then I did a half hour on the rowing machine.
*
Mike&Meredith hosted a Game Night. I only ever seem to be able to attend the ones they host :)
Michelle's been talking about how she read Anton LaVey's The Satanic Bible, and I'm starting to want to read it 'cause she talks about how LaVey is such a good writer.
Michelle recommended Elaine Pagels' The Origin of Satan to Sue. Anyone have thoughts? I remember being unimpressed by Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, and I seem to recall that I've heard mixed things about Elaine Pagels.
She also explained the difference between a pentacle and a pentagram, which was news to me.
At one point during the night, Michelle said approvingly, "I'm getting my back rubbed by a cute girl." (I was sitting behind her on a piano bench.) She hadn't heard from her boyfriend since Tuesday and next time she talks to him she's gonna tell him: "There are plenty of people happy to take me off your hands, if calling me once a week is too back-breaking for you" and totally namedrop me :)
Michelle was telling me about this online survey that had as one of its questions: "Who would you HIGH-FIVE right now?"
She said she cracked up laughing, and thought of me.
At one point she said she (we?) needed to get psyched up... that the jazz music in the other room just wasn't doing it for her. I knew what was coming, but when she busted out with, "Shot through the heart!" I still nearly died laughing. [ref.]
At one point, Sue asked, "Were you two separated at birth?"
I said normally Michelle prompts a lot of "This is my tolerant face" from me, but that we happened to be focusing on the stuff we mutually geek out about.
Michelle says next time we marathon HIMYM we're inviting Sue and Catherine. I pointed out we're most of the way through S1; she said we'll start over, she's happy to rewatch.
We played Apples to Apples.
I got intense (Black Holes - Mike) and corrupt (My Love Life - Michelle).
The last hand we played before people had to start getting home (it was like midnight) was "spunky" and the final choices were "Rock & Roll" or "Girlfriends" -- my card and Trelawney's, respectively. Trelawney enlisted peer pressure, and not actually wanting to be spunky, I was ok with forfeiting to her.
Saturday
I was gonna go to the gym but ended up sleeping for an eternity. ::confused::
collegecate and I went to see Titus Andronicus, with dinner at Tamarind Bay beforehand, and dessert at Finale afterward.I had Nezami Handi ("Mix Vegetables with spinach in almond sauce.") It very much wasn't what I was expecting, but I liked it, and though I was surprised at the apparent small amount of food, I was full at the end.
Anyway, Titus Andronicus. That was a very disturbing play.
Back when we watched The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and Emma couldn't stomach it, I said, "But you love Titus," never having seen or read the play myself. Now that I've seen it, I stand by that statement more strongly.
Also: there was a moment wherein a character gagged another by stuffing a piece of paper in his mouth.
Yeah, that a dessert place has a buy-one-get-one-free promotion with a production of Titus Andronicus is a bit disturbing :) I'd actually never been to finale before. I ordered a Manjari Mousse. Not to die for, but that was okay.
The company that did Titus Andronicus... their 2007-2008 season is: Macbeth, Henry V, The Tempest, King John; and the coda to the 2006-2007 season is Love's Labour's Lost.
I am undecided.
Cate lives near Coolidge Corner. Good to know for future midnight showings. [midnight showings permalink] I wouldn't have gone to the prom thing anyway -- though because '"Everything's funnier when seminarians do it," I will be at ANTS next Friday :)
Sunday
I dreamt that I happened to visit the library and I saw Terry in the old children's room with a young daughter. Awake, I have decided this was Tallessyn's daughters, whom I see at Cambridge Welcoming every Sunday (especially since my dream self seemed to think Terry had two daughters) but it was very bizarre since that is not how he normally shows up in my dreams.
Last night I was telling Cate that I was considering taking an Intro to Islam course at the extension school next year. However, trying to come up with a bibliography and thesis for my 15-page research paper for my Medieval Church class is making me wanna drop out of school. I also dislike that I've been in a poor mood all day because of it.