ilai

This last month has turned into Performing Arts Month without real planning:

On the 7th I went on narya's mob to see The Rimers of Eldritch (directed by desireearmfeldt with lighting done by puffy_wuffy and rusalka)
The night of the 14th I saw The Heidi Chronicles (technical director brief_life)
marcusmarcusrc came into town and had a mob to see the Capitol Steps on the 29th
shumashi introduced me to the Soweto Gospel Choir on the 30th
Last night (6th) was the Harvard-Radcliffe Choir with ukelele and chenoameg singing Vasks' Dona Nobis Pacem and Poulenc's Gloria

I'd been on-and-off sick, which got in the way of my enjoying some of these shows, but now I have lots of cold medication and cough drops. And I didn't realize it at the time, but I don't get any ice-cream from

chenoameg.

In other news, I have a replacement for my old desktop purchased fall of 1998. Technology has passed me by these last ten years; since then non-USB input devices have fallen out of fashion, as have IDE hard drives and parallel ports. In their place I found little glowy blue lights, a metric buttload of USB and Firewire ports, and an extra miniature screen on the front panel of the computer. Apparently the Chinese government thinks my mouse has more lead in it than is safe (well, it exceeds a certain unrevealed threshold), but Dell has apparently not bothered to translate this into English.

Also, the book Fight Club is somewhat more intriguing than the movie.