"I need to practice dentist...ing."
Apr. 30th, 2007 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseActually, thanks to my insurance plan, I'm not quite in need of dentist money to pay for all the dental work I'm going to be needing. But I may have to postpone the trip that Brian and I were hoping to take later this summer to scope out potential places of future habitation. As much as I'm looking forward to moving somewhere where the price of a house is merely stratospheric (as opposed to the veritably exospheric prices regularly seen here in town), we may need to take our reconnaissance trip somewhat later than this summer. A lot depends on how much I can save over the next few months, but with the additional financial drain of unfortunately necessary dental work, I'm guessing it'll take me longer than three months to save enough to cover a week's worth of missed work, hotel expenses, and all those little incidentals that so joyously crop up during vacations. And that's with our plane fare already covered through mileage - no small amount, here in Juneau.
On the other hand, the hygienist was rather impressed with how much better my mouth looked since the last time she'd seen it. I guess brushing and flossing compulsively for the last six months has been good for something, even if it does feel like my teeth are falling apart on me. The cleaning was much shorter and less painful this time, anyway. And once I'm through with tomorrow's appointment, the really nastily decayed tooth that's actually been causing me some pain should be taken care of. Hopefully.
I know it's been some time since I last updated, and I wish I could say it was because I was involved in something daring and adventurous, or at least interesting to read about. My life, however, has been more or less comfortably boring over the last month. Brian and I were impressed enough to see Tommy twice more; word on the street is that it ended up the highest-grossing show in Perseverance Theatre's history, and deservedly so. At the risk of repeating myself, the musicians and cast were uniformly excellent and the staging in particular was phenomenally well done - part of the reason we kept going back was because of all the little touches you might not have noticed the first or second time. I hope they've got something really amazing musical-wise planned for next season, because this is going to be a hard act to follow.
Unfortunately, my own efforts at getting re-involved in theatre have been somewhat less successful. So I'm mostly keeping my eyes and ears open; if nothing else, there's a scene work class coming up in June that I'll likely be signing up for. And keeping up with my voice lessons too, of course.
Other highlights of the past few weeks involve Brian and I making our own pel'menis and our own pizza, the formulas for both of which are likely to show up in my recipe blog sometime soon, as they were both excellent. We had some folks over for a dinner party, during which we watched Children of Men, a dystopian-future-society-type story that had been receiving numerous positive reviews. I was somewhat less than impressed with it; although much of it was very well done (the accolades for its cinematography are well-deserved), the story itself lacked much of an emotional connection. When you have two sides duking it out, neither of which are particularly sympathetic, it becomes kind of hard for me to really care much about the plot, even if the protagonists are slightly less horrific in nature than either side of the battle. In addition, while the first act, and to some extent the second act, were quite promising, it seemed to lose steam midway through and end on a note that didn't really hold much feeling of closure other than "okay, the screen went blank, that must mean the movie's over". Disappointing, but so it goes.
In other entertainment news, I'm still playing Oblivion - I believe that I've logged close to 150 hours at this point. I probably would have done more, but Brian's been playing it too, which has led to a minor spat or two over who gets the controller first when we get home for the night. All that aside, though, the game still comes highly recommended. I can't think of the last time I stuck with a game this long, other than just for the sake of finishing it.
I've also invested in a copy of Sid Meier's Pirates! for the PSP. While obviously somewhat less far-sweepingly involving than Oblivion, it's turned out to be an equal amount of fun (though we'll see if it's anywhere near as long-lived). If you played games from the Mac Classic days at all, you can see that it's very true to its roots. The gameplay is essentially a series of fairly simple-yet-tricky minigames with a basic concept to tie them all together, much like many of the games available at that time. Because it's so easy to pick up, however, it's proven to be a lot of fun to play, and has helped pass some relatively slow workdays, as well as the suddenly-empty time while Brian's taken over the Xbox 360 controller.
And that's more or less all the news for the moment. I suppose we'll see if things remain comfortably quiet, or pick up a bit...there's something to be said for both states, really.
On the other hand, the hygienist was rather impressed with how much better my mouth looked since the last time she'd seen it. I guess brushing and flossing compulsively for the last six months has been good for something, even if it does feel like my teeth are falling apart on me. The cleaning was much shorter and less painful this time, anyway. And once I'm through with tomorrow's appointment, the really nastily decayed tooth that's actually been causing me some pain should be taken care of. Hopefully.
I know it's been some time since I last updated, and I wish I could say it was because I was involved in something daring and adventurous, or at least interesting to read about. My life, however, has been more or less comfortably boring over the last month. Brian and I were impressed enough to see Tommy twice more; word on the street is that it ended up the highest-grossing show in Perseverance Theatre's history, and deservedly so. At the risk of repeating myself, the musicians and cast were uniformly excellent and the staging in particular was phenomenally well done - part of the reason we kept going back was because of all the little touches you might not have noticed the first or second time. I hope they've got something really amazing musical-wise planned for next season, because this is going to be a hard act to follow.
Unfortunately, my own efforts at getting re-involved in theatre have been somewhat less successful. So I'm mostly keeping my eyes and ears open; if nothing else, there's a scene work class coming up in June that I'll likely be signing up for. And keeping up with my voice lessons too, of course.
Other highlights of the past few weeks involve Brian and I making our own pel'menis and our own pizza, the formulas for both of which are likely to show up in my recipe blog sometime soon, as they were both excellent. We had some folks over for a dinner party, during which we watched Children of Men, a dystopian-future-society-type story that had been receiving numerous positive reviews. I was somewhat less than impressed with it; although much of it was very well done (the accolades for its cinematography are well-deserved), the story itself lacked much of an emotional connection. When you have two sides duking it out, neither of which are particularly sympathetic, it becomes kind of hard for me to really care much about the plot, even if the protagonists are slightly less horrific in nature than either side of the battle. In addition, while the first act, and to some extent the second act, were quite promising, it seemed to lose steam midway through and end on a note that didn't really hold much feeling of closure other than "okay, the screen went blank, that must mean the movie's over". Disappointing, but so it goes.
In other entertainment news, I'm still playing Oblivion - I believe that I've logged close to 150 hours at this point. I probably would have done more, but Brian's been playing it too, which has led to a minor spat or two over who gets the controller first when we get home for the night. All that aside, though, the game still comes highly recommended. I can't think of the last time I stuck with a game this long, other than just for the sake of finishing it.
I've also invested in a copy of Sid Meier's Pirates! for the PSP. While obviously somewhat less far-sweepingly involving than Oblivion, it's turned out to be an equal amount of fun (though we'll see if it's anywhere near as long-lived). If you played games from the Mac Classic days at all, you can see that it's very true to its roots. The gameplay is essentially a series of fairly simple-yet-tricky minigames with a basic concept to tie them all together, much like many of the games available at that time. Because it's so easy to pick up, however, it's proven to be a lot of fun to play, and has helped pass some relatively slow workdays, as well as the suddenly-empty time while Brian's taken over the Xbox 360 controller.
And that's more or less all the news for the moment. I suppose we'll see if things remain comfortably quiet, or pick up a bit...there's something to be said for both states, really.
