Sunday, August 11, 2013
Aug. 11th, 2013 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyBack to summer schedule week with four days of canvasing all over various areas of the city. Canvasing means long hours, achy feet, going up and down stairs, getting into buildings - but it also means going to different parts of the city each day. I do really like that part. Today was closer to home too, which was nice since Bear came to pick me up when I was done. (probably also why I ran into Yeva today, completely accidentally, while I was canvasing although it wasn't that close to her place)
But even with the regular schedule and back to work this week, I still managed to have three fun events, this week - one totally unplanned. So I'm make it a list.
1. On Wednesday, after a long summer of planning to do, Bear and I drove to the Bronx Zoo to spend the day there. Regular zoo is free on Wednesday and Total Experience Zoo is $15 instead of $34, so we just decided to go for it. I haven't been in the Bronx Zoo in maybe nineteen years. We had a lot of fun. We saw the gorilla house and bears and elephants and giraffes and so many others. And we didn't even get to do the whole zoo. There was just so much. So lots of fun. We got Chinese food on the way back and then Bear dropped me off at Yeva's for a few hours. I think I might do a picture post in a week when I'm not so busy.
2. The second fun event was completely not planned. I was in the fellows meeting in the campaign headquarters around 5pm on Friday, waiting for the meeting, to start when another girl mentioned that Amanda Palmer was giving a free concert at Lincoln Center at 7:30 that night. Since Bear was hanging out with his best friend that night and would be home late and my meeting got out at 6, I thought that it would be awesome to just go. So I did. I took the subway up, got frozen yogurt for dinner (I wasn't that hungry and frozen yogurt is a great dinner in that mood). I caught the tail end of Hungry March band and Vau de Vire Society - which was like a circus mixed with a brass band (they also did one song with Amanda Palmer later). And then I moved to the other stage for the show. Rosin Coven opened the show - they describe themselves as pagan lounge ensemble - I like the voice of the main singer very much. And then at 8:30 Amanda Palmer came out with her band with the special appearance for one song of the Dresden Dolls partner. My favorite parts were the ukelele songs - I think those songs and lyrics are much more personal and interesting and I heard them before more. She played a new song - very sad one "bigger on the inside" but it was very, very emotional and touching at the end. Very lovely. I was also amused by many people there who just came for the free Lincoln Center Summer stage concert and had not idea who she was or anything - that was fun to watch. But mostly I was just exited to see Amanda Palmer live and for free.
3. And the last fun event was planned for almost two months - Janna's baby shower . I got to Yeva's in the morning, since she was driving. She did my hair in a fancy braid. The shower was in this brunch place on the Lower East Side and we spent maybe four hours there. The food was very good, especially the cake = passion fruit meringue cake. And all the cute little baby girl clothes were so adorable. The presents were so fun to see Janna open. I gave her the stroller blanket with animals she wanted, and two bibs I cross-stitched. (I'm going to put the pictures of those soon too). Janna and Bert are going to name their baby girl Josephine, Jo for short.
So it was a pretty good week. Bear and I also tried a new board game yesterday - it's called "Pandemic." It's a cooperative game, which means all the players need to work together to win to find disease cures. It was pretty fun. I like working together and figuring it out and not just competition - that was certainly different.
But even with the regular schedule and back to work this week, I still managed to have three fun events, this week - one totally unplanned. So I'm make it a list.
1. On Wednesday, after a long summer of planning to do, Bear and I drove to the Bronx Zoo to spend the day there. Regular zoo is free on Wednesday and Total Experience Zoo is $15 instead of $34, so we just decided to go for it. I haven't been in the Bronx Zoo in maybe nineteen years. We had a lot of fun. We saw the gorilla house and bears and elephants and giraffes and so many others. And we didn't even get to do the whole zoo. There was just so much. So lots of fun. We got Chinese food on the way back and then Bear dropped me off at Yeva's for a few hours. I think I might do a picture post in a week when I'm not so busy.
2. The second fun event was completely not planned. I was in the fellows meeting in the campaign headquarters around 5pm on Friday, waiting for the meeting, to start when another girl mentioned that Amanda Palmer was giving a free concert at Lincoln Center at 7:30 that night. Since Bear was hanging out with his best friend that night and would be home late and my meeting got out at 6, I thought that it would be awesome to just go. So I did. I took the subway up, got frozen yogurt for dinner (I wasn't that hungry and frozen yogurt is a great dinner in that mood). I caught the tail end of Hungry March band and Vau de Vire Society - which was like a circus mixed with a brass band (they also did one song with Amanda Palmer later). And then I moved to the other stage for the show. Rosin Coven opened the show - they describe themselves as pagan lounge ensemble - I like the voice of the main singer very much. And then at 8:30 Amanda Palmer came out with her band with the special appearance for one song of the Dresden Dolls partner. My favorite parts were the ukelele songs - I think those songs and lyrics are much more personal and interesting and I heard them before more. She played a new song - very sad one "bigger on the inside" but it was very, very emotional and touching at the end. Very lovely. I was also amused by many people there who just came for the free Lincoln Center Summer stage concert and had not idea who she was or anything - that was fun to watch. But mostly I was just exited to see Amanda Palmer live and for free.
3. And the last fun event was planned for almost two months - Janna's baby shower . I got to Yeva's in the morning, since she was driving. She did my hair in a fancy braid. The shower was in this brunch place on the Lower East Side and we spent maybe four hours there. The food was very good, especially the cake = passion fruit meringue cake. And all the cute little baby girl clothes were so adorable. The presents were so fun to see Janna open. I gave her the stroller blanket with animals she wanted, and two bibs I cross-stitched. (I'm going to put the pictures of those soon too). Janna and Bert are going to name their baby girl Josephine, Jo for short.
So it was a pretty good week. Bear and I also tried a new board game yesterday - it's called "Pandemic." It's a cooperative game, which means all the players need to work together to win to find disease cures. It was pretty fun. I like working together and figuring it out and not just competition - that was certainly different.
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Date: 2013-08-12 06:04 pm (UTC)That’s awesome that you got to see her free, especially since you enjoy her music! I really need to sign up for some kind of ‘events’ newsletter. I know I miss out on a lot of neat stuff like that around here lol
I really like the name Josephine … and it’s not a name you see that much anymore. (: Sounds like you had a really great week!