17 May
Yesterday was an awfully full day for a weekend! Usually, I have to stretch things out in my weekend entries, since all I do is rehearse and hang around the house, but yesterday was jam-packed!
First of all, it was Katie's tenth birthday party (her actual birthday was last Wednesday), so the house was swarming with kidlings from the crack of dawn.
Well, 10a. Same thing.
I got her the Narnia books, 'cause I'm a book pusher. Anything to keep her away from the Babysitter's Club and the Goosebumps books, which seem to be all she ever reads!
I bought them on Friday, and managed to get out of Colony only buying for myself a new set of the Wrinkle in Time books, 'cause my old copies are in bits. And did you know that they are selling the Narnia books in a different order? No, really! Rather than the order in which they were written, now The Magician's Nephew is first, then The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, then The Horse and His Boy, and then everything else is in the regular order.
I'm just glad it wasn't like that when I was a kid, because I couldn't get through The Magician's Nephew, or The Last Battle for that matter, for years and years (though I like them now), so if that one was first I never would have read the good ones!
Then, afterwards I went to rehearsal, and after that to the 9th Ave. Food Festival.
You see, in New York, the harbinger of summer is not Memorial Day, it's the street fairs, and the very first one of the season is the 9th Ave. Food Festival.
Calzones and zeppoles and Italian sausage with peppers and onions and bratwurst and kielbasa and pierogis and roasted ears of corn and sweet potatoes and funnel cakes and steak and mozzarella on garlic bread and crepes and pina coladas served in half a coconut and lemonade and beer and sno-cones and Italian ice.
And t-shirts that say Hell's Kitchen.
I bought two sets of sheets, one of them was a set of those newfangled sheets made out of t-shirt material. Very fabulous!
After that I went to the tattoo convention at Roseland.
I really want a sunflower tat just above my ankle, but I didn't have the art and I couldn't find anything good there, so I guess I'll wait.
It was fun being there anyway. I only saw two people straighter-looking than me, pierced nose or no--one was an older woman in a business suit and one was a really ordinary-looking bloke wearing a blue Oxford shirt and chinos, but one could see the top of his neck tattoo peeking out over his collar, so one could tell that he had hidden depths.
There were so many people getting tattoos that it sounded like I was in the middle of a mob of angry bees.
And then after that I went to the movies!
I saw Dark City at the three dollar theatre, and it was loads of fun. Atmosphere alone won't carry a movie, but it goes a long way, and it had the great and glorious William Hurt, not to mention Richard O'Brien, for heaven's sake, who's still mighty sexy even as a murderous, bald, telepathic alien.
On the bad side, though, Kiefer Sutherland was appalling, and you could see Rufus Sewell's harness quite clearly in two shots when he was falling off a building, so I wondered if they ran out of money at the end!
I really loved it, though. My only real problem was with the horrid people in the audience. Kids and babies and people drinking beer and this enormous woman next to me invading my personal space. The problem with sitting in the front row is that the only other people who sit in the front tend to be lunatics.
And when I got home I still had time to add some sites to Open Pages, do two loads of laundry, have birthday cake and watch a boxing match with Fran and Cynthia!
I'm such an over-achiever.
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