christine is playing me a song by the band Weezer right now. she said maybe i’d heard it on the radio, but i just shook my head – i don’t listen to the radio enough to hear much music, and if i did happen to hear something, i usually never know who actually performs a song.
this song is something about “if you want to destroy my sweater,” and it actually sounds kind of good, except she’s playing it on her computer, so the sound quality is not very good.
we had a birthday lunch at a little italian cafe called Parisi, and it was very authentic. i was slightly sleepy still from not sleeping enough last night, so i just sort of glanced at the menu and ordered a pizza, because it had something on it called baraesola, which is dried, cured filet mignon, kind of proscuitto-like. plus arugula and a drizzle of truffle oil and mozzarella. sounds good, right?
well, the pizza arrived, or should i say “pizza.” THERE WAS NO SAUCE AND NO CHEESE.
what is a pizza without sauce and cheese? in this case, a thin cracker-type crust with a few shavings of meat and a PILE of arugula and a couple of shavings of parmesan.
bitterly disappointing.
but not really, because the company was good, plus i did feel like i was eating a salad, very healthy. we were there with christine’s sister, beth, and beth’s 2 1/2-year-old, will. will has a very very funny, expressive face, and if beth allows it, i’ll take some photos of him when we go to their house tomorrow. will has a green dragon costume for halloween, which he assured me is very, very scary, and he’s going to try it on for me when we get there.
this italian restaurant was also a deli, and i bought a jar of Nutella, the perfect food, really. i only bought the jar because others will be around to eat it. i can’t ever buy it usually, because then i’d eat the entire jar in one sitting. no matter what the size.
tonight we’re going to the colorado symphony, and they’re going to have a halloween program, and they’re all going to be dressed in costume. we could also be in costume, and i did bring my tiger pants, but christine has no costume, so i’m certainly not going to wear those tiger pants, because if i did, people might think i just wore them all the time.
i’ll have to think of some other excuse to wear them.
after the symphony, we’re going to a piano bar, where christine spent an evening recently sitting around a piano with four old guys and one young one, singing show tunes. this could possibly be entertaining, but i’m a little concerned because she described it as “smoky.” hmm.
i managed to finish fixing my english paper today. mostly taking out contractions. fixing split infinitives and particple gerund hanging things. NEVER SAY THINGS. you can’t say things in the paper. DON’T SAY THINGS. it was challenging to try to think of other words instead of things. he also doesn’t want you to write ANYTHING, and that was even more difficult.
but it’s done now, homework done, except for the re-writing of the play, and that’s not critical, so everything is good.
my friend who is in NYC called me; he saw “wicked” yesterday, and he said he understood why i wanted to go see it again right after leaving the show. as we talked about it, i remembered how much i loved it, and now i really want to see it again. i know i said that jekyll & hyde was better, but i don’t think it was. he also went to see “spamalot” last night. wow, what a theater day for him! plus, it’s his first time in NYC. i can’t imagine how neat that would be, going there for the very first time. today he called me from SoHo, wanting to know where i used to live in the village, and as we talked, i looked up a map in order to direct him to my old street, at the corner of Hudson and Barrow.
Funny how easy it is to be connected nowadays, huh?
tomorrow night the other friends start coming in, so we’ll be going to the airport a lot, theoretically.
denver has a very nice airport.
i have to go now.
ok then,
grace who just took a nap in denver, and i’d like to have a nap EVERY SINGLE DAY.