I swear I just couldn't not do it ... even though I could practically hear the groans as I hit post. Hee.

My Latin students now know all the names of Byzantium, thanks to that song. Yay.

I go shopping a lot in Rochester with costume designers from NYC.

This tends to confuse the clerks as the designers, when making conversation are saying things like" I just came from the city to do this design."

It doesn't go over so well when they come to Chicago and say things like that. Oddly, I've only heard it from costume designers.

In Rochester, anyway, the reaction to someone "buying something for a show" from retail clerks (who wonder, for example, what a tall goodlooking young man and a short pudgy woman are going buying a 32A bra and 45 thermal undershirts with a tax exempt card) tends to be "How nice, what high school do you teach at?" or "What jigh school do your kids go to?" or "What nice volunteer work!" or something else sort of condescending. I was just talking to a potential landlady who seemed extremely surprised that a theatre would pay me to sew. She was all like "But of course they don't PAY you at this second job?"

I think costume p[eople sometimes have to be snooty, because people (who all where clothes) tend to think 'Whay are they paying someone to pick out clothes?"

Rochester is a bit of a backwater, however, so I am not sure if this is true in larger areas like chicago

I think costume p[eople sometimes have to be snooty, because people (who all where clothes) tend to think 'Whay are they paying someone to pick out clothes?"

They are perfectly free to be snooty as long as it isn't with other theatre people. Then it's just rude.

Rochester is a bit of a backwater, however, so I am not sure if this is true in larger areas like chicago

We may be named for a smelly onion, but c'mon... backwater?

They are perfectly free to be snooty as long as it isn't with other theatre people. Then it's just rude.

That's very differnet, your right. Mine are mostly just snooty with clerk. Of course, I was a clerk, and wouldn't have wanted to have someone be snooty with me...

We may be named for a smelly onion, but c'mon... backwater?

Heh. The Toronto - Rochester ferry was supposed to help whose tourism industry? IJS.

Nutty

Los Angeles is 30 neighborhoods in search of a city,

Red Hot Chile Peppers:

Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner

Sometimes I feel like my only friend

Is the city I live in, the city of angels

As lonely as i am, together we cry

One of my LA friends described Los Angeles as "a loose confederation of strip malls" and I've stuck with that.

I get a toaster! Upon my recommendation, a friend who was doing a long TDY in a boring place bought the Firefly DVDs to take with her, and is now another Huge Fan. I figured she'd be hooked by the "no sound in space" but she raved about the writing. Good taste, that one.

An ad I wrote is on the DVD extras and I can't even get my parents to buy them.

I'm constantly amazed at how easy it is for people to get other people to buy/watch them due to this experience.