Yes, I went to Teatro Zinzanni. Worth nearly every penny.

Did you know... part of the profits for the SF Teatro find there way into Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival?

I knew someone who worked for One Reel who told me this. Basically, everything One Reel does subsidizes their loss-leader spectacular, Bumbershoot.

More often I get tiny than short.

Damn it, ita. That almost makes me want to watch Smallville again (well, not the Marsters part). This is the first season where I haven't watched it at all.

Except the writers who are on JJ Abrams shows.

I think DeKnight's on Smallville now.

I am pretty sure that 5 hours of sleep is not enough for me, but I am learning not to go back to sleep once I wake up. That way lies the ugly cousins grogginess and sluggishness.

So, am up and having breakfast. Eating before shower is my new attempt at setting a routine that gets food into my belly faster. Most days I am awake 3-4 hours before I eat, that's not good.

Looks like a sunny day, but crisp - high of only 65.

Argh. My landlord had his gardening service "trim" all the plants in my balcony planters. Apparently he didn't want so much as a leaf to grow beyond the edge of the planter, so all the work I've been doing to get nice, full, boxes with overflowing flowers, to break up the sterile white right angles, has come to naught.

They chopped some of the prickly pear blades right in half, to even them up with the edge.

This after he lectured me for an hour last year about how those planters were my responsibility to keep nice.

There's going to be a World Series in Chicago for the first time since 1959.

t Points at Cubs fans...

Hah, hah... t /Nelson

I hate Ozzie Guillen. I think he's a prick. But I'm rooting for the nasty, brutish, and short Sox anyway.

DW, I hardly know you!! If it does end up being White Sox/Astros, it will be a "Which ex-Red Sox do you dislike less?" marathon in Boston. I think now, in the fulness of time, most in the Hub can forgive Roger Clemens for not taking a crap contract to stay, although they may never forgive him for going to the Yankees later. Carl Everett, OTOH, left behind no fans.

I got no horse in that race, so I can dislike the White Sox on their merits. I do enjoy watching El Duque pitch, though, in part because I am convinced he will someday accidentally kick himself in the face while winding up.

And if the Cards pull off the miracle and charge back, you'll have the South Side vs. the Cardinal Nation, meaning you'll have monster ratings throughout the Midwest.

And you will have die-hard Cub fans unable to figure out who to root against. (Although the Sox-hating Cub fans are a smaller group than the Cub-hating White Sox fans. The Hobson's Choice for them would be if the Cubs got into the World Series against the Yankees.)

Cute Annabel pictures!

I had a pretty great weekend. Good class on Saturday, then I went to a party on Saturday night with a bunch of people from my school. There are several people from Kosovo who are spending a semester at my school, with the intention of going back to Prishtina (the capital) and improving their library, so the party on Saturday was for everyone to get to hang out and talk to each other, and the Kosovar students gave a short presentation on the history of Kosovo. Interesting stuff.

But the most exciting part of my weekend was on Sunday, when I met James Howe--author of Bunnicula! I am happy to report that he is a totally great guy.

I got no horse in that race, so I can dislike the White Sox on their merits.

What is there to dislike about the White Sox? They are probably the best baseball story of this season.