Busy, busy

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Heh, the problem with actually having a life is that it leaves me so little time to update LJ. Or perhaps it just feels that way since my computer's been broken for a while now. I'd brought my laptop with me to Cyprus in the theory that I was promised it would be safe, and there was always a chance I'd find it useful. Instead, of course, two weeks in, I was sitting with it at a table one day, someone tripped over the power cord, and the flow of electricity promptly stopped functioning. I didn't know if the problem was in the cord (in which case I'd just have to buy a new one) or in the computer itself (which would be a much larger problem); I could, theoretically, have taken it to a computer store in Cyprus to find out, but since it took me two weeks just to find a post office that functioned, I was reluctant to hand over my nice laptop. And so I had to wait until I returned to solve the problem: it was the cord after all, and now everything functions again, and after just two trips to a Best Buy. (Which would have been one, but I, uh, forgot to bring the cord with me the first time. Go me.)

I returned to New York late in the afternoon on Tuesday; Wednesday morning someone called with free tickets to a Broadway show. And then last night Racheline and I ate out at JoJo, since it is Restaurant Week here. Um. My life is not always so glamorous!

The show I saw was 110 in the Shade, which was very good, even if I didn't even know what it was about going in. (It's about 1930's small Texas town during a drought, and a girl who would like a husband, in case anyone else is as ignorant as me.) Audra McDonald played the lead role, but I particularly liked Steve Kazee, who played Starbuck, a conman.

JoJo was also excellent; I had the vegetable menu, which had four courses. There was gazpacho with tiny minced peppers and cucumbers and avocado, and big halves of cherry tomatoes in the soup itself; a salad with artichoke hearts and spinach leaves, pinenuts, and curls of lemon peel; a mushroom tart that was perhaps the best thing ever; and passion fruit Pavlova, which is a sort of sherbet thing, bright yellow with the passion fruit seeds in it, in a meringue cup, on cream. All so very good.

Random links:
I am so excited about this movie!
Blossom to Blossom- I posted this story last week, but I think perhaps LJ was doing one of its weird things. Or, uh, you didn't comment because you didn't like it. In which case, feel free to continue ignoring it!
Iron & Wine - Boy With a Coin Iron & Wine has a new CD coming out in September, and I can't wait for it. Luckily, they have already released a single, which is really, really good. It reminds me a bit of the style of Woman King, as opposed to their softer songs.

Comments

[tadity.livejournal.com]

...I'm so torn. I saw the Sweeney Todd revival a couple of years ago, and loved it so much. But Johnny Depp has so much hair in that picture. Yes, far too picky, but I can't help it!

Still, I look forward to it, just because seeing a version of it again will be fun. Though the revival show? Too amazing.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ah, I haven't gotten to see a production of Sweeney Todd, though I know about it from other people's descriptions, so I'm really excited to get to see any version of it.

Though, hee, that is a pretty wild hairdo. I suppose it's better than pirate dreads?

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Hello, next Christmas film! :D

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Dude, I know! I'm so excited.