I am back in the terminal, having cleared customs, marched back through the embarkation process, and gotten my new documents. The heavens just opened. I hope they got the massive Nick splat graphic finished on the side of the ship before the rain started. They were just starting to apply it when I got off at 10. Oops.

{{{{{Drew and Kristin}}}}}

It's still driving me crazy that you guys are this close! I'm so sorry I couldn't make the drive. Have a great trip, again.

IOmememeN: I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO WORK TOMORROW!!!! 7:30am breakfast meeting with the Draconian Dictator is not high on my list. The administration is supposed to make the breakfast for the whole faculty but I don't think DD gets his hands dirty. He prefers to order people around.

Re Wicked: The very last workshop I attended at the Willamette Writer Conference last weekend was on applying lessons from musicals to your writing (sort of "if your characters were going to burst into song, when would they do it?"). It was a great workshop, and I really need to make the time to type up my notes and blog them, but anyway...the speaker used a clip from "For Good" from Wicked as one of his examples, and it's made me really curious to see the whole thing.

Oof. Went to Original Pancake House this morning for breakfast. Had Way Too Much Food. Western skillet with eggs over easy and globs of cheddar cheese plus a small side of buttermilk pancakes with whipped cream, powdered sugar and lingonberry sauce.

Followed up by a quickie Costco run so Lewis could pick up supplies for tomorrow's Madden '09 launch at midnight.

Oof. Carb coma imminent. To the point where I've put my pajamas back on.

I love Wicked-- I love how every character is shades of gray and how the true villain of the piece is the PR person.

Speaking of Idina Menzel, she was in an all-star cast performance of Chess in London last May along with Adam Pascal from Rent, Josh Groban, and Kerry Ellis who replaced Idina in the London cast of Wicked, It's apparently going to be shown on PBS sometime next spring, which gives me a major happy, since it's one of my favorite shows and I love so many of the performers in it.

Speaking of Idina Menzel, she was in an all-star cast performance of Chess in London last May along with Adam Pascal from Rent, Josh Groban, and Kerry Ellis who replaced Idina in the London cast of Wicked, It's apparently going to be shown on PBS sometime next spring, which gives me a major happy, since it's one of my favorite shows and I love so many of the performers in it.

Oooooh.

I saw Wicked shortly after it opened, with Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth and Joel Grey. Taye Diggs was filling in as Fiyero, because Norbert Leo Butz had been injured.

Ive never seen Wicked or read the book but I want to do both.

Hopefully a road showing of Wicked will show up in my town at some point.

Thanks for everyone's advice about the Food processor. I was looking on Amazon again and they have a model that comes with a 12 cup bowl, a 10 cup bowl and a 4 cup bowl plus a variety of discs, and attachments. That seems like the best value for the money. And there's a rebate and free shipping.

{{{Drew}}}

{{{Seany}}}

Daniel, you probably already know this, but if you have sleep apnea, getting it treated should do good things for your metabolism, heart, energy level, etc. And losing weight helps reduce the sleep apnea, which helps you lose weight, and so on.

I had a psychiatrist I was seeing for ADD evaluation write in his exam notes, "[smonster], an extremely attractive 31 yo who is slightly overweight..." Ummm, eff you, dude. That and the fact that he asked me why such a pretty girl like me wasn't married yet meant that I never went back. And my GP isn't going to refer anyone else to him. Whoot!

Rugby and bellydancing have done wonders to banish the BIDs. I think I feel better about my body now than when I weighed 30 lbs less. I do miss having more muscle. Need to get back in the gym for that, which I've been saying for years.

In sugary treat preferences, I loved Devil Dogs and, once moving down south, Moon Pies. The latter preferably microwaved. Le yum.

IOmememeN, coffee + ADD meds = v. twitchy smonster. I know this, and yet I combine them anyway. I'm actually at work b/c I didn't get stuff done that I needed to during the week, blecch.

"[smonster], an extremely attractive 31 yo who is SUPER YUMMY..."

Fixed.

Hee. Ta, Sean. He was such a skeeze. I'm just glad that my awesome lesbo GP was as horrified as I was.

"[smonster], an extremely attractive 31 yo who is SUPER YUMMY..."

"[smonster], a 31 yo woman whose physical appearance it would be entirely unprofessional for me to remark upon unless and until it becomes relevant to treatment ..."