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Back to the Everyday
Jan. 6th, 2009 04:31 pmWell, I'm back to work. We got to do the whole severely delayed plane resulting in a new (and suddenly direct) flight because we would have missed our connection yesterday. I got to say that I'm not a huge fan of flying for work. I like the not having to drive 10+ hours, but traveling with a group of nine people is exhausting. Particularly since I got to watch everyone's bags while they went to the bar. I didn't mind, not having any particular desire to spend my day in an airport bar, but I get a little antsy when people cut it close getting to the gate to leave.
Any way, vacation was wonderful. I spent the 2-4 of January attending a Swing Dance workshop. I finally feel some what comfortable with the Lindy Hop! plus I learned swivels (which I think look terminally cool). I got to spend a whole week in my apartment. I cleaned, vacuumed, installed a new shower curtain, and got the wobbly front door knob fixed so that it doesn't wobble and is easier to unlock! I was productive - go me.
Back before that I got to go to the fifth-annual People's Light and Theater panto. Because as my brother says, our family likes to pretend we're British. See, some how my parents managed to join "Toenails" an expat curry eating society, despite the fact that my parents aren't expats of anything except possibly New Jersey (that is if you can really be an expat of New Jersey). Since there is a yummy, yummy curry restaurant practically right next to the theater, they've become the permanent hosts for the December meeting of Toenails. This year had to be the best show yet. They had mixed media! and it was good!! The company was doing Cinderella, and at one point (through various twists and turns) the prince and his valet are fighting over the glass slipper. They run right out of the theater door into the lobby, at which point a video screen pops up in front of the curtain. The video shows them chasing each other all over the lobby until the come right up back to the door. The princes hand is inside the theater beating on the door while you can see the rest of him on the screen on stage showing you what is "happening" outside in the lobby. Very funny. Then the chase continues on the screen through a buch of green screen shots like though the ocean with accompanying Jaws music from the piano.
Then after the show a bunch of people came back to our house for a drink and I got to have the following conversation.
Woman: Do you do theater?
Me: No, not since high school. I'm and archaeologist
Her: How old are you?
Me: I'll be 26 tomorrow.
Her: I thought you were much younger than that.
Me: ?
What is the appropriate response to that. Do I say thank you? Am I supposed to get mad? I really don't know, particularly with the stretch on much which leads me to believe that she thought I was around 16. Though, within the last few days I've come to the conclusion that maybe people just don't have an accurate conception of what 26-year-olds are supposed to look like.
Any way, vacation was wonderful. I spent the 2-4 of January attending a Swing Dance workshop. I finally feel some what comfortable with the Lindy Hop! plus I learned swivels (which I think look terminally cool). I got to spend a whole week in my apartment. I cleaned, vacuumed, installed a new shower curtain, and got the wobbly front door knob fixed so that it doesn't wobble and is easier to unlock! I was productive - go me.
Back before that I got to go to the fifth-annual People's Light and Theater panto. Because as my brother says, our family likes to pretend we're British. See, some how my parents managed to join "Toenails" an expat curry eating society, despite the fact that my parents aren't expats of anything except possibly New Jersey (that is if you can really be an expat of New Jersey). Since there is a yummy, yummy curry restaurant practically right next to the theater, they've become the permanent hosts for the December meeting of Toenails. This year had to be the best show yet. They had mixed media! and it was good!! The company was doing Cinderella, and at one point (through various twists and turns) the prince and his valet are fighting over the glass slipper. They run right out of the theater door into the lobby, at which point a video screen pops up in front of the curtain. The video shows them chasing each other all over the lobby until the come right up back to the door. The princes hand is inside the theater beating on the door while you can see the rest of him on the screen on stage showing you what is "happening" outside in the lobby. Very funny. Then the chase continues on the screen through a buch of green screen shots like though the ocean with accompanying Jaws music from the piano.
Then after the show a bunch of people came back to our house for a drink and I got to have the following conversation.
Woman: Do you do theater?
Me: No, not since high school. I'm and archaeologist
Her: How old are you?
Me: I'll be 26 tomorrow.
Her: I thought you were much younger than that.
Me: ?
What is the appropriate response to that. Do I say thank you? Am I supposed to get mad? I really don't know, particularly with the stretch on much which leads me to believe that she thought I was around 16. Though, within the last few days I've come to the conclusion that maybe people just don't have an accurate conception of what 26-year-olds are supposed to look like.
