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Current mood:	inspired
Current music:	Arthur theme music.
Entry tags:	2009, brain dump, family, morgan, rhps, sylvia

This is going to be something of a brain dump since I haven't posted in a bit and a lot has happened over the last week or so.

1. I had a lovely visit with my dear friend Ursula. Somehow despite the fact that we became friends in the immense turmoil of crazy, destructive respective adolescences, we are still friends. Even after almost ten years of not seeing each other we were able to pick right up where we left off. How rare is that? It is also incredibly pathetic how long it has been since I went out with a friend. I know children dramatically alter your landscape, but perhaps it is time that I found some other facets of my identity again.

2. I give my husband immense credit for relaunching Rocky Horror. It went incredibly well and I feel like a heel for not thinking he could pull it off. The energy was really good. It was nothing like the depressing protracted death of Rocky at the Orpheum. How amazing a difference being back in a good space can make.
In a a related note there was this huge cross section of old friends dating back to my degererate high school days. Some I hardly recognized with how much they had changed. Others will never, ever change. I am not sure what is more discombobulating, the people who have changed dramatically (I think I fall into that category,) or those who are in the same mindset they were when they were 17. I know I wouldn't want to be like that anymore. If nothing else it is exhausting. Perhaps the nicest thing about seeing old friends is the ones who have kept all the good stuff and matured out of the badness. All in all it is making me remarkably introspective about who I am and who I used to be. Not exactly existential ennui to borrow a phrase, but some akin to it. I am almost thirty and it it seriously time to grow up and start doing something with myself.

3. I am having something of a culinary renaissance in my kitchen. I made a resolution that I was going to try to cook as much as possible. I have been having fun making soup and pie and all kinds of wonderfulness. Today it is Meyer lemon angel food cake and Pad Thai. Tomorrow I am making ginger carrot soup. I am pondering making my own preserved lemons and then making a preserved lemon and green olive chicken dish for my birthday. I know it is kind of bad for the birthday girl to make her own birthday dinner, but I am seriously getting to a point with my cooking skill that I feel as though I could cook just about anything. I am not sure if the skill is actually there or just the confidence. But it is kind of heady to think that I can likely reproduce my favorite restaurant dishes at home for better and cheaper. Also I love the internet.

4. We have a spanking new president. I can not really form words as to how amazingly happy this makes me. I have become something of a politics junkie this season and it is nice to have something to focus on and be passionate about.

5. After much thought and introspection I am going to apply for the MLS program at UW Madison. I guess I never thought I wanted to be librarian when I grew up, but it feels me with silly glee thinking about it. I am slut for books and an absolute nerd at the same time. I also inquired at the library about what it would take to apply for a job there. Apparently it involves taking a test with the city and would also include a pay cut. I am not sure if this would be worth it right now, but maybe when I am back in school. Whether I pursue the different job or not, it felt nice to at least ask the question.

6. I am trying to chalk up the ridiculous illness that befell me over Saturday night and all of Sunday to not enough sleep and it being negative stupid outside on Friday and not karmic comeuppance for attempting to have a social life. Whichever it was, I was really motherfucking sick on Sunday and called in. This puts me, once again, on final for absenteeism. It rolls off in March which isn't really that long, but it is not a nice place to be. Sigh. At least I am no longer on death's door.

7. Sylvia has lost another tooth. I have joined the parental conspiracy of deception and fulfilled my role as tooth fairy.

8. Morgan is full on crawling and pulling up. He also is at the everything must go in the mouth phase of things. He is fascinated by the cats and their food and water dishes. Wacky baby. He's cute though even with a dirty sock in his mouth.

There is more I think but my brain feels deflated right now.