littlestar

friday night: i love you, you're perfect, now change

was great. :) it was so funny. i liked our production of it too, the director was apparently the original one from when the musical was off-broadway. we had an understudy for one of the female parts, but i thought she was extremely entertaining. i actually thought that the understudy was the other person for a while.

it has an interesting set-up. it's a series of vignettes and situations, rather than a single plotline with lots of songs. and the vignettes showed all the neuroses that men and women face in this dance called love from singlehood to hooking up at funerals, but with a humorous and honest twist to it all. for days, me and parakkum have been quoting the songs/dialogue at each other.

i highly recommend this show. i believe it's playing in sf right now as well. so look it up. :)

now i'm curious if they have a recorded version of this somewhere. :)

saturday: mechwarrior tournament and sushi.

not at the same time. :)

parakkum had a preview release tournament for mechwarrior. while he played, i got a lot of reading done. i finished margaret cho's "i'm the one i want" and caught up on "the purpose driven life" (don't laugh. you know who i'm talking to. :)) and started on "managing anger."

i've been reading a lot of books on boundaries and stuff lately, inspired by having mine beaten on for a lot of summer. i love my family, they can be a little trying to be with sometimes.

i've been pondering putting up book notes/quotes. i don't think i can be as nearly thorough or thought-provoking as metamanda and kwc, but i might as well use this little bit of webspace as a collection of things i can look up when i need to.

yummy sushi from taka sushi in downtown (5th and market). uni is the food of the gods and amaebi takes a close second. i really must make my way to vancouver (for their fabulous sushi and uni) and alaska (for their king crab legs).

should i be worried that i'm planning trips based on food? :)

sunday: beach and then drunkeness (2 n's? 1?)

went to ocean beach and wrestled with the waves for about 2 hours. :) ocean beach is nice because the incline of the beach is slow and steady. torrance and redondo beach has a much steeper incline, which means you can't make it out far into the water.... or you can, you'll just be swimming a whole lot faster.

i haven't played in the water like that since....6th grade. i got caught in the undertow then and my cousin had to catch me before i said goodbye to the rest of the dry world (hence liking the slow inclines of ocean beach).

i finally wore my bikini (yay) but with a shirt and shorts. this turned out to be a good thing, because i ended up losing my underpants in my shorts, and i had to redo the ties. and i don't think my top would've survived without my shirt.

i like the swells a lot more than the waves. my highlight of the day was getting swept over 10 yards to the shore with a duo of waves that i mismanaged. :)

afterwards, we came home and washed off and then went out for italian food in the gaslamp district and came back with "the blair witch project" and "die, mommie, die" from blockbuster. i kept talking about unrelated stuff while we started blair witch and while i was drinking up most of the bottle of guwertstremeiner... needless to say, i didn't make it through that movie. parakkum patiently switched over to more batman episodes, that i once again slept through.

we're going to make another try for the movies tonight since i was so lame yesterday. :) then i'm off to la tomorrow to stay with my parents until sunday.... then back to san jo. busy busy. :)