Vortex, definitely!

Oh, Trudy, picture me with green Elphaba-like skin because I am so jealous that you met Sting. Is he just as beautiful up close? I mean, of course he is... But even more in person?

Oh Hil, I hope a solution is found soon.

Europe Girl. Meh. You wanna fight, don't you?

Callaluna and Trudy, jello pit. It's a plan.

I need more hours in the day. My normally read threads are about a thousand posts behind, but I don't want to skip. My efforts have been to keep caught up here at least.

I was startled by his beauty, Nicole.

Usually after a show I go to the stage door and thank the actors and tell them I enjoyed the show. And particularly if it's closing I want to do that because they're losing their jobs and could use a little love. And I REALLY wanted to this time because the thing is BEAUTIFUL and I'm just sick that it didn't find an audience.

So when I got there it was mobbed because, you know, Sting. So it's a little frustrating because the cast is shooting past - surely some just want to get the hell home, but surely some are assuming we all just want to see Sting. So I'm a little frustrated with the crowd (and feeling like some dbag hipster for feeling frustrated with the crowd) and then BOOM he's standing there in front of me smiling and freakishly beautiful and holyfuckitssting and he's signing my Playbill and I'm thanking him warmly and telling him ithe show is wonderful and he is being suitably gracious in return in his blue puffy jacket and excellent quality beard.

Then he split and so did a big chunk of the crowd (who, to their credit, did not all WOOOOOO when he walked out) and the rest of us hung out for a while and commiserated with the other actors.

Then I spent my twenty minute walk to the train thinking "Sting. I just met Sting."

The Thanksgiving Day parade had the cast of that show (including Sting) performing one of the songs. I wondered what the rest of the show was like.

I still feel poopy, but am heading up to work in a bit to get some work in my classroom done whilst I have no kiddos. Em is headed to an indoor water park with her "sister from another mister", Emily. They call each other "Twin". You actually can't really tell them apart from the back. Same length hair, same color, same build. Same hyperactive personality. Since Em switched schools, they haven't seen each other much so off they go.

Meanwhile, I will be covering boxes in rainbow covered fabric for my math manipulatives and hanging team signs and paper lanterns.

Callaluna and Trudy, jello pit. It's a plan.

That took, what, 72 hours since I re-appeared? Its like old times in here.

Usually stunt casting leaves me cold but, and this will sound a bit funny, he can really sing...

That's so good to hear. What a difference a decade or two can make.

I have infinite respect for Sting's talent, but when I saw him in The Three Penny Opera in 1989, I was actually, physically embarrassed for him.

Just supports my personal theory that men get better with age.

He is SO much more interesting/attractive to me at 63 than he ever was as a popstar.

I don't know why it's been acting up recently. My doctor said that I've got bursitis in both hips, and that explains why the pain, but I don't know what explains the bursitis. I haven't been doing much out of the ordinary lately.

Mine just ... is. I think congenital. All the stretching and PT in the world isn't going to stop the sometimes really bad day and need for occasional cortisone shots. But it and the tendinitis went and got my sacroiliac joint involved this time (after I ignored it for a decade with no health insurance) so now I'm waiting for MRI results.

Heat helps me with the pain.

I'm sorry you're going through this Hil.

Gosh, Sting. Gosh.

Callaluna and Trudy, jello pit. It's a plan.

That took, what, 72 hours since I re-appeared? Its like old times in here.

It's the power of Bitches.

Gosh, Sting. Gosh.

Yeah, that's what I keep thinking.

Oh, that Sting. Way cool. (Yes, my first gronky reaction was the sword.) But I am also a big fan of the alive blond version.

There's a whole discussion of the pop culture we get to like after our pop culture is no longer *the* pop culture, but my brain is a bit filled with work and I can't get it out just now.