So. The stage adaptation of American Idiot that previewed in Berkeley this season.

I've seen it twice in Berkeley with Christina (she's seen it three times!) and it is just fucking phenomenal. I really liked it when we sat in the very back, enough to see it again. And then we were front row center last night and I just haven't stopped thinking about it all day. It's frenetic and beautiful and all around you and it pulls you in and it made me cry and it rocks. Oh, does it ever rock. I didn't even realize how great these songs are until I experienced them in this context. It's my favorite new musical since RENT.

And on a related note: Matt Caplan ZOMG!

Seriously, I could just die over how much I adore this thing. I think it's sold out for the rest of its run in Berkeley, which ends the 15th, but it's supposed to hit Broadway early next year and if you can go see it, wherever you are, whenever it comes to you: go. GO.

Due to some sleuthing in regards to a sneaky nephrologist who is always trying to put one over on us here at work (I work in market research), I felt the need to announce that I feel like I'm in an episode of Scooby-Doo.

And my coworker Jenna called out from her office, 'You kind of dress like you're in Scooby-Doo!'

♥

New look for my journal.

Today is one of those rare days where I get to Do Nothing, which usually means I get a lot of little things done because there was no pressure to do anything at all.

We'll see if one of those little things is 'manage to catch up on my NaNoWriMo' - I'm thousands of words behind. But the month is young! But I have Netflix, and reading to do for class, and also laziness.

I'm doing NaNoWriMo again this year.

It's not the best of ideas, since my night class has a pretty heavy workload and it's hard enough as it is for me to write papers on time without any fluffy 50,000-word distractions. But when have I ever been known to go for things that are a good idea, when I could instead do something stupid?

Remember, if you never do anything stupid, you don't give yourself the chance to accidentally do something stupid awesome.

It's really been too long.

Christina, Karla and I had a yard sale this past weekend. It went just fine, but I'm still trying to raise a bit more money for Disneyland, and I have a few things that I didn't want to sell to the general rabble anyway.

If you're interested in any of these things, please e-mail me at louise.ducray@gmail.com. Stuff is in good condition, prices negotiable. :)


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$100 - A $200 voucher for Delta airlines
I got this voucher to compensate for my troubles trying to get home from Washington DC in January. Thing is, I really don't know when I am going to use it. If you buy it off me, you get $100 off your next Delta flight, and I get $100 I would not have otherwise had! Everybody wins.

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$50 - Corset
From Timeless Trends, steel-boned, blue silk with black lace. It is the style shown here in size 32. Gorgeous, well-made, just a bit too big for me now.

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$10 - Serenity Bank Heist Money Pack
The 'Fan Club Edition' distributed by Quantum Mechanix, seen here.

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$10 - Star Trek Foam Finger - San Francisco Giants
These were given out at the Star Trek night at the San Francisco Giants earlier this year. They are nifty and exclusive and they look like this.

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I should be listing a second batch of stuff later on (posters, mainly) but I wanted to get this posted since Disneyland is this weekend. (Yay!)

And then what happens?

OMFG PAUL BETTANY IS GOING TO BE AT COMIC CON THAT IS ALL

It was a really, really good Independence Day for a variety of unrelated reasons.

Actually, the whole weekend has been nice.

Now I'm going to go for a run, if I can convince my legs they still work after a hike on Friday and the walk to fireworks last night.

This very evening at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco.

Tickets available at the door or online here.

Schedule

6:30 Doors
7:00 Intro
7:15 Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog
8:00 Intermission
8:10 Costume Contest + Prize Drawing
8:30 Serenity!


Come have fun, hang out and support Equality Now!

All of my Doctor Who icons are WAY too subdued for such an event so here is Kaylee to help me announce that

OMFG DAVID TENNANT IS GOING TO BE AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON.

The Music Of Battlestar concert was incredible, as in 'not to be believed.' Stunning.

I wrote a rambling gonzo-ish review of the evening in Sue's car on the way back up north, before I lost any of the magic and was back in the world. I promise to post it within the next twenty-four hours without letting my inner editor get the best of me.

In the meantime, there are some beautiful photos and even a few videos up on Bear's blog!

And another month has gone by since I've posted. This is getting far too silly.

I'm going to just ramble and post whatever comes into my head until I can get back into the swing of this, okay, LiveJournal? We've been together for nigh on a decade, you and me. I'm not going to let a little (massive, game-changing, social-life-rearranging) thing like Twitter come between us.

Today I walked to Rasputin at lunch and bought two used books for cheap: Water For Elephants and The Historian. I've been doing a lot of fluffy reading lately, short things, graphic things, or re-reading things I've already read a dozen times, cycling back around, but I've really been feeling the need to jump forward, blaze fresh neural trails, lose myself in a thick, rich, textured novel that is completely new to me. These seemed promising.

I like carnival sideshows, gypsies, magical realism, Victoriana, medical oddities, destiny, truth, metafiction, great descriptions.* A very tiny sampling of some of my favorite books would include Good Omens, The Witches Of Eastwick, The Beach, Wuthering Heights, The Little Prince, Dangerous Angels, The Mists Of Avalon, and Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches trilogy. Do you have a book to recommend to me? Please do.

Let's see. Movies. I've seen Up three times. I adored it. We're all excited for Moon but I can't find a proper release date for it. I went with Kim, Dan, Christina and Karla to see The Hangover, which was an ill-advised decision made after an afternoon at the Meadery spent wearing Kelly's bitchass hat and then dinner at this pizza joint where Kim and I played Mortal Kombat and I only made it to Scorpion. Anyway, I hated The Hangover so much that I left the theatre to Twitter about how much I hated it. And then I spent the rest of the movie wandering the AMC on an adventure, ducking into other movies and posting mini-reviews about them. I found myself quite hilarious. Did I mention both rum and Coke were involved?

What else, what else. I got an iPhone. Yeah, I had to jump on that bandwagon but I really do not know how I lived without this slim lovely thing. I named it Jarvis but put a sexy girl Gelaskin on it so I think it may end up having gender issues. (My iPhone, I'm talking about.) Baycon happened and it was epic in its epicness. I put in my PTO requests for both (42 days!) San Diego and (86 days!) Atlanta. This weekend Sue and I are driving down to SoCal for the 'Music Of Battlestar Galactica' Concert, the Los Angeles Can't Stop The Serenity, and Nicholas Brendon in some play or other.

No, we don't really stop.

But oh! Tonight I'm going to finish organizing my closet. I'm going to do it like a rock star party vixen, of course, but still. My second evening at home in two nights.


*This is also a list of things I enjoy in real life.

Star Trek. Was. Awesome.

I want more right now. Like, more more. Everybody was so great. I need like eight more hours of Bones and Scotty and perturbed Spock. Part of me really didn't think they would be able to pull it off to this extent, but seriously. Awesome. More please.

For now, I guess I'll have to settle for going to see the same one again! There seem to be many outings to choose from this afternoon. :)

Yesterday was a really great long day in the city. I love my friends. ♥

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;

New office! After a month of working from home and realigning several perceptions. New space, new phase, another stage of the journey.

Lynzey, Jonathan, the new guy John, Lydia, EJ and I went to The Boardwalk for lunch. We're just a few doors down from it now, so my coworkers and I will now have a Place We Go For Lunch. Just like people do on sitcoms. This fits in well with the Group's recent obsession with the Meadery, the SCA-run Viking Geek Tasting Room Bar where everybody knows our names.

My desk is all set up except for my toys. They don't know where they want to go, and are huddled together in the corner, confused and scared. They tell me they like the old office better, but we'll all just have to adapt.

I think I'll bring my baseball in for them to rally around. Oh. My baseball? Yeah. A bunch of us went to the Star Trek Day at the Giants and I won this kickass baseball signed by Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine.

Right, and I have a Flickr now.

What else, what else? So much has happened and it's like LJ is an old friend that I cannot possibly catch up to speed with all the goings-on and happenstances, until it almost becomes a chore, like work, to do something I usually love and live for.

So let's start where we are, as good a place as any, and go from there. This past week/end: Meadery, stitched and bitched, coloring and bubble wrap, impromptu Shawn gig, too much drinking, too much thinking, up too late, picked up Twilight again, free comics, vampire movies, blood fountain, Team Batman, finished Twilight. Went to see the Babbage Engine with Ido. Went to see Wolverine with Christina and Kim and Dan. Dollhouse killed me. Killed me absolutely dead of squee. I should make a separate post just about SPOILER and just how fucking hot SPOILER! is. I used to be good at that sort of thing.

There are 79 days left until Comic-Con.

And that's all the news fit to print.

I slept until noon and woke up in the heat of this gorgeous day. Now I'm trying to think of something outside to do, and with who. Most of my weekend days are so full I have to choose between things, but today there doesn't seem to be anything going on.

I may just shower and catch the train in a direction.