quickie update, journal-type
Jan. 30th, 2005 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
awhyzipHung out with Barak at Diesel for a bit before he left back for home. We also bought early Cadbury Creme Eggs!
Commuted down to Providence yesterday morning to join Mira at RI shul. That was pretty fun, although I had a bit of regret to skip my regular Sat morning E Ch-Torah-to-TBS-musaf routine. On the other hand, I got unreasonably excited when singing the Kedusha again... haven't had that for months (and for some reason I missed it?).
Mira and I had great ideas for stuff we want to do for Purim. I wish for her sake there was a better Jewish community at Brown (grad). I try to import her up to Boston as much as I can :-)
And the evening was Jess's birthday party.
Friday night, I went to TBS so I could get up to a Nerissa Nields concert afterwards.
I'd been kind of iffy at every decision-point all evening, because there was a part of me that just wanted to spend it sitting in at home alone, possibly in the dark. But I am mostly glad I went. I knew no one there (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cosmusic who told me about it was sick), but then Nerissa herself thought she'd met me before. Anyway, we chalked it up "well, maybe I saw you walking around sometime in Northampton ... (or else probably you just look like someone else I know)". And that was amusing.
I especially liked the "Set my Circus Down" song, and one other that I can't recall just now. I was impressed at the volume the singer could crank her voice up to when she wanted. I met a neighbor: a short, short-haired, jaunty woman named Susan. She lives in Arlington Heights. Also, I got to give two people a ride home who needed it.
I realized on the airplane, flying back from San Francisco: I was looking forward to arriving home. I'd decided not to try and finagle a second night out of the airline nor to buy one on my own, because I was ready to be on my way homeward. Then, on the plane, I realized that when I was thinking "homeward", I was imagining Northampton.
:-(
That's sad because, of course, it is wrong. =( That's not where I was going!
And yet on the same flight, I was striking up a conversation with my seatmate "Amy" who turned out to live in Arlington Center -- and last year lived just two little streets over from my road! We'd been chatting off and on the whole flight, and then turned out just at the end to be both from the same town and were really surprised.
Oh, and commune breakup is scheduled for this May, possibly June. That's when we move out of the arlapt, Jess & Amy move far away, and everyone else goes home to their parents, and I find another new place to live. Around Boston. (So, not "Home" yet.)
Geez, I'm really dwelling on this Northampton thing.
Ha, ha, "dwelling!" ... get it?
=/
So I will finish off this post with an anecdote from the drive to Providence, instead:
On the way down, the highway goes thru Pawtucket first. Just as one is entering that city, there is a big billboard: "Sucess lives in PROVIDENCE [some dentist or orthodontist's name here]".
It is bright yellow and I just thought how bitter that must be for all the Pawtuckettians to have to see every day. "Looking for sucess? Not finding it? Well, that's 'cause it ain't in your town!"
Anyone else think that's funny?
Commuted down to Providence yesterday morning to join Mira at RI shul. That was pretty fun, although I had a bit of regret to skip my regular Sat morning E Ch-Torah-to-TBS-musaf routine. On the other hand, I got unreasonably excited when singing the Kedusha again... haven't had that for months (and for some reason I missed it?).
Mira and I had great ideas for stuff we want to do for Purim. I wish for her sake there was a better Jewish community at Brown (grad). I try to import her up to Boston as much as I can :-)
And the evening was Jess's birthday party.
Friday night, I went to TBS so I could get up to a Nerissa Nields concert afterwards.
I'd been kind of iffy at every decision-point all evening, because there was a part of me that just wanted to spend it sitting in at home alone, possibly in the dark. But I am mostly glad I went. I knew no one there (
cosmusic who told me about it was sick), but then Nerissa herself thought she'd met me before. Anyway, we chalked it up "well, maybe I saw you walking around sometime in Northampton ... (or else probably you just look like someone else I know)". And that was amusing.I especially liked the "Set my Circus Down" song, and one other that I can't recall just now. I was impressed at the volume the singer could crank her voice up to when she wanted. I met a neighbor: a short, short-haired, jaunty woman named Susan. She lives in Arlington Heights. Also, I got to give two people a ride home who needed it.
I realized on the airplane, flying back from San Francisco: I was looking forward to arriving home. I'd decided not to try and finagle a second night out of the airline nor to buy one on my own, because I was ready to be on my way homeward. Then, on the plane, I realized that when I was thinking "homeward", I was imagining Northampton.
:-(
That's sad because, of course, it is wrong. =( That's not where I was going!
And yet on the same flight, I was striking up a conversation with my seatmate "Amy" who turned out to live in Arlington Center -- and last year lived just two little streets over from my road! We'd been chatting off and on the whole flight, and then turned out just at the end to be both from the same town and were really surprised.
Oh, and commune breakup is scheduled for this May, possibly June. That's when we move out of the arlapt, Jess & Amy move far away, and everyone else goes home to their parents, and I find another new place to live. Around Boston. (So, not "Home" yet.)
Geez, I'm really dwelling on this Northampton thing.
Ha, ha, "dwelling!" ... get it?
=/
So I will finish off this post with an anecdote from the drive to Providence, instead:
On the way down, the highway goes thru Pawtucket first. Just as one is entering that city, there is a big billboard: "Sucess lives in PROVIDENCE [some dentist or orthodontist's name here]".
It is bright yellow and I just thought how bitter that must be for all the Pawtuckettians to have to see every day. "Looking for sucess? Not finding it? Well, that's 'cause it ain't in your town!"
Anyone else think that's funny?
Nerissa house concert
Date: 2005-01-31 02:56 pm (UTC)(It feels strange to be called "cosmusic" - I think of that as a name referring to my music journal, not a name referring to me. I'm still "cos", even when I'm writing in cosmusic)
As for Success living in Providence, I guess that explains how it ended up in bed with Erin McKeown :)
Re: Nerissa house concert
Date: 2005-02-08 09:56 am (UTC)I was sitting there trying to decide if to say "Cos" or if to say "cosmusic"... because you are not cosmusic, but I wanted the link to point to where you write about the show. So, yeah -- enjoy the strange.
I was glad I went, too. Come have dinner or lunch with me sometime and talk!
Re: Nerissa house concert
Date: 2005-02-08 09:57 am (UTC)I was sitting there trying to decide if to say
I was glad I went, too. Come have dinner or lunch with me sometime and talk!
Re: Nerissa house concert
Date: 2005-02-08 10:02 am (UTC)not finding success in Pawtucket
Date: 2005-02-05 03:12 pm (UTC)Re: not finding success in Pawtucket
Date: 2005-02-08 10:00 am (UTC)