Nice night, if not loooony

I got home in enough time to not only start more laundry, and straighten my apartment (more... it's always a work in progress), but also make the dish I'd planned to bring to Hrafn's birthday celebration: rice with black beans, sauteed onions and (3 colors, 2 kinds of) peppers, with chili-styles seasonings, some cheese on the side for them's that eats cheese.

Amazing how little traffic there was yesterday (also noted by Bitty).

Party highlights: budgie cake (vegan! made by Queue), and seeing Hrafn's smile when she saw what it was. people euchre-obsessed enough to sit on the kitchen floor to play. cherry tomatoes from Bitty's garden. salt and pepper kettle chips (thanks, Treacle_Well). funny birthday cards. fascinating banana-suntan-lotion-smelling, pie-filling-feeling, noisy goo (hint: the container is actually useful). ZZBottom's innuendoes. fun conversations (except for the funereal one). seeing Hrafn's watercolors (oh fruit-focused painter!).

Brandeis Theater

For the last 5 years or so, I've gotten season subscriptions to the productions of the Brandeis theater department. I've seen some interesting plays, some plays I haven't cared for, some in-between. Overall, I'm usually impressed with the staging of the play, even if I don't care for the play itself.

I just got this year's tix (a 2nd year without a Shakespeare play. *Sigh*). If anyone is interested in going to one of these, the box office number is 781 736 3400... If you go on a Tuesday (the preview night), I can meet you there (um, unless I change nights for that play).

( the plays )

Also included in a subscription is a StageSource "circle of friends" card. This gives me a twofer at a bunch of theaters once a year. There's way too many to list, but includes a lot of the local smaller theaters (some of which I'd not heard of before), plus a couple in Worcester (Scholargipsy....?), north and south shores, out on the Cape, one in NH.
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