Drizzly Tuesday

[annathepiper]

Well, the showers that came through on Sunday during the latter half of the Street Fair have stayed with us for the last couple of days; I've had to take my umbrella into work to keep from getting soaked. I don't mind the rain for once; it's cooled things off considerably. But it would be nice to have things clear up by the weekend in time for Folklife! For which we have no solid plans yet. The I-937 petition folks were making very hopeful noises at solarbird about collecting signatures during Folklife as well, given how well she was doing at the Street Fair. She'll probably do that separately from our actual Attending Folklife(TM), though.

Tomorrow is our morale event to go over to Pacific Place and see The Da Vinci Code. It amuses me that at least two people in our group have complained that we are not going to see X3 instead, and my lead even was planning to jump ship and see the mutants, except they aren't out until Friday. Doh. ;) And afterwards, conveniently, Dara and spazzkat and I will be meeting up with sksouth for sushi! So tomorrow promises to be pretty enjoyable all around. I'll just have to get through the Longest Morning In The History of Time.

I have finished Laurie King's Locked Rooms; a post on it and The Game will be forthcoming. And I've started A Cup of Light, which was recommended to me a while back by jessicac; three chapters in so far, and I'm kind of liking it. "Palette cleansing" comes to mind as a way to describe the prose, like a good green tea. More on this later.

Monday miles: 3.75
Tuesday morning miles: 1.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1048.35
Miles out of Rivendell: 590.35
Miles out of Lothlórien: 128.35
Miles to Rauros Falls: 260.65

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Saw you walking south on Fourth yesterday somewhere between Madison and Pike, don't remember exactly where... would've said hi but I was on the bus and moving....

[annathepiper]

Heh! Had to have been right around Pike, I turn at 4th and Pike to head up towards my bus stop, which is on Pike between 6th and 7th.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

hey, tell sarah i said hi! :)

[annathepiper]

I will! :)

[cow.livejournal.com]

I think I actually want to see X3! Which is amusing to me, since I didn't see either of the previous movies . . .

Loving the rain; it's a good reminder to me that I'm not in Phoenix anymore. Heh.

[annathepiper]

That is amusing. Hee! You might consider looking at X2 at the very least since some of what happens in it will lead into stuff that will be in the new movie--and besides, both of the preceding movies are fun just to see Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen delivering their lines like they are Shakespeare. They really make both of the movies for me.

Especially Ian McKellen, who is chillingly cool in his jail escape scene in the second flick. :D

"Not in desert heat" strikes me as a good place to be, yes! And since I do in fact have my umbrella with me, I can deal with the rain.

[cow.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should organize a movie night or something. I'm far more likely to sit through movies if I'm with friends. On the other hand, X3's out this weekend, so I'm kind of out of time. Oops!

There was something about the desert that was damned beautiful (http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=151356199&size=l), even if in a more literal sense of those words than I originally meant. I don't think I'd want to live there, but I'm really glad I went. I love my Northwest rainforest too much to leave it, though.

[annathepiper]

You're only really out of time if you (or people with whom you are likely to attend movies) want to see X3 this very weekend, I suppose. I and mine are probably not going to see it this weekend, just to avoid the crowds.

And this is also Memorial Day Weekend and Folklife Weekend, so it's not like there won't be a plethora of other things to do besides movies, too... but much will depend on the weather, I suppose! And I guess many folks who don't have other things to do will see this as good movie-going time.

There is definitely a kind of beauty about the desert... but it's a harsh and spare kind of beauty, one that I can conceive of myself liking in a way. But I don't know if I'd want to live there either. I prefer greenery and mountains. :)

[cow.livejournal.com]

Indeed--I am so going to Folklife! I haven't gotten around to digging through the schedule to decide which day(s) to go yet, so I should do that soon...

I really, really want to go back to Flagstaff. Elevation ~7,000 feet; it's about 150 mi north of Phoenix up in the mountains. It has trees and greenery and cooler/more temperate weather. And it's a hippie college town! In the mountains!

[annathepiper]

The Murkworks crowd will be hitting Folklife most definitely, just a question of when. We need to review the schedule! Don't know if we'll hit it on multiple days yet--we'll have to work out how to get down there by bus, which will probably be "on the 522 plus some walking", but we'll see about that.

And ooh, Flagstaff sounds kind of neat.