Archive for December, 2006
December 17, 2006 9:46 pm
I almost wrote this as a rip-off of a MasterCard ad…but let’s be honest. Everyone’s done it and we’re all sick of them.
Last weekend, Courtney and I had a Christmas shopping day! Feeling festive, we decided that we needed a tree in the apartment. Even if it is almost worthy of Charlie Brown.
The ornaments are from the Dollar Tree, which is probably why the star broke when Courtney tried to bend it so it would stand up straight.
Fortunately, a little hot glue did the trick. Straight is so overrated.
Yay!
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December 15, 2006 12:26 am
I think I qualify as a fairly hardcore fan of Harry Potter. I read the first of the books before they became a phenomenon. I dressed up as Professor McGonagall for Halloween before the first movie came out. I have copies of the first book from the U.K. and from Germany. I’ve been to buy a book when it came out at midnight. I know the ins and outs of the plot and I can tell you what’s non-canon about the movies. I skim the headlines at some of the biggest HP sites and I try to solve the puzzles on J.K. Rowling’s website.
So when I tell you that I felt like a newbie at this wizard rock concert last Sunday, I want you to understand my full meaning. It was a little like DragonCon in that one’s fandom is suddenly dwarfed by people you simultaneously want to hail as comrades and mock as fanatics.
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December 14, 2006 10:26 pm
Having carried my “As bees, geometry” bag (second half of this post) around for three months, I had started to think that no one would ever question my motto of choice. I’ve gotten comments about the green ribbon that’s tied around the strap, but no on had pressed me about the Latin. (Wait, not true. My roommate asked once, but the conversation got sidetracked and she never got an answer. Oops.) So I guess what I’m trying to say is that I hadn’t yet had the opportunity to “toss off an obtuse explanation”…though, may I add, at the time, Jean was much better at coming up with said explanations off the top of her head.
All that is a long introduction to say that the question has finally been asked — and answered — twice in a week and a half.
The first time was in the elevator last week. Having a college in downtown Boston means that all our buildings are at least ten stories high, so elevators are a major commodity and there is a huge rush on them right before classes start. I was trying to get up to the lucky 13th floor for work as 2:00 classes were starting, but by the time we got up to the 9th floor or so, it had emptied out to me and a man who is probably a professor. “I can’t help noticing your bag,” he said. “Can I ask what it means?”
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Categories: bag stories, life in the big city
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December 10, 2006 12:06 pm
December 8, 2006 12:58 am
Yes, those were the highlights of my night at the Boston Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker. There was a dancing teddy bear and Clara flew out in a hot air balloon!
I almost had tall-person-in-front-of-me problems, but the seat next to me was empty, so I helped myself and had a great view! There was one back corner I couldn’t see because I was so far to the side, but that’s what I paid for and my gamble was good.
From a technical standpoint, the highlight of the show was the hot air balloon that took Clara and Drosselmeier to and from the Land of Sweets — the Opera House is big, ornate, and gorgeous, so it was neat that they were able to use the verticality of the stage to fly in a balloon! (Well, not a real balloon, per se, but a big cut-out balloon shape with a basket beneath it.)
Having realio, trulio little boys in the party scene was nice. They didn’t have to wear caps! Mother Ginger’s “little boys” still had their hair tucked into their hats, though.
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A surprising number of people who know me know that I adore Disney’s 1973 animated Robin Hood. Of course that could be because I bring it up anytime the subject turns to favorite Disney movies, favorite childhood movies, or homemade Halloween costumes (yes, my wonderful mother made me a purple dress out of old curtains so I could be Maid Marian when I was four). It could also be that I’ve made you sit through it with me. So I guess it won’t surprise you that I’m blathering about the new DVD version they’re advertising this Christmas: the Most Wanted Edition. (Though it might surprise you that it isn’t on my list of most wanteds.)
Obviously, I can’t deny that I squealed when I first saw the ad on tv. But the name, Most Wanted Edition, really bothers me. I mean, really bothers me.
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