Honour has been satisfied.
May. 22nd, 2011 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseSo, I'm in Michigan! Given that this has been the plan for, oh, roughly a month and a half, normally I would have mentioned it here. But since the whole reason I was here was to get revenge on a friend who follows his friends' online updates obsessively, referring to it even obliquely was kind of a nonstarter.
Short version - remember the story from my wedding about the dear friend who showed up at the last minute and my mother snuck him in? He had the lead in a play here, and with some fiscal help from my mother and logistical help from his girlfriend I managed to get transportation to a front-row seat for the show Friday. I kept up the charade until the last minute, too - I'd been sending him texts each night telling him he'd be great, look for me in the front row, etc., for obfuscation purposes. It probably goes without saying that I got an especial thrill from doing it from the actual front row. (I heard from the stage manager that when he went backstage at intermission he was laughing and going "I must be getting really good at this imagination thing...") And to give credit where it's due, he was pretty brilliant - the show as a whole was entertaining as heck.
It's not going to be a long trip, but since getting here involved nearly seven hours of flying, I'm staying through until Tuesday. It's interesting; I've never been this far East, and while Michigan looks pretty much like the rest of America, there've been a few things to get used to. Like how you can drive through three or four different towns in the space of twenty minutes and not even notice where the boundaries were. (Bit of a change from Alaska and Arizona, where the towns - be they large cities or mere outposts of civilization in the wilderness - are all surrounded by stretches of a whole lot of nothing.) Or like how, while I've lived somewhere with the humidity and somewhere with the heat, I've never quite had to deal with both at once. Fortunately it's not overly hot yet, but man...80 degrees in the desert is about 100 times more bearable. (Although all the lovely green grass and trees is a balm for my desert-scorched eyes that are used to seeing nothing but brown as far as the eye can reach right now.)
Aside from the show, activities so far have been light. We went to see Bridesmaids on a whim yesterday, and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Cringe-comedy has never really been my thing, but the scriptwriters were smart enough to realize that it was the dressing to the story rather than the whole of the story, and said story felt quite authentic and true. I particularly liked how, while there was the obligatory fat/plain/socially awkward character who got a lot of the obligatory fat/plain/socially awkward jokes, they also gave her a couple of scenes that fleshed her character out somewhat, and even made her a bit of a badass, both emotionally/mentally and physically.
In any case, I've been suffering from severe travel-insomnia, and managed my first block of more than four hours of uninterrupted sleep in a good 72 hours just now. So I'm going to see if I can keep on with my lucky streak, especially as I've heard rumblings that we may be off to the Detroit Zoo today. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my...
Short version - remember the story from my wedding about the dear friend who showed up at the last minute and my mother snuck him in? He had the lead in a play here, and with some fiscal help from my mother and logistical help from his girlfriend I managed to get transportation to a front-row seat for the show Friday. I kept up the charade until the last minute, too - I'd been sending him texts each night telling him he'd be great, look for me in the front row, etc., for obfuscation purposes. It probably goes without saying that I got an especial thrill from doing it from the actual front row. (I heard from the stage manager that when he went backstage at intermission he was laughing and going "I must be getting really good at this imagination thing...") And to give credit where it's due, he was pretty brilliant - the show as a whole was entertaining as heck.
It's not going to be a long trip, but since getting here involved nearly seven hours of flying, I'm staying through until Tuesday. It's interesting; I've never been this far East, and while Michigan looks pretty much like the rest of America, there've been a few things to get used to. Like how you can drive through three or four different towns in the space of twenty minutes and not even notice where the boundaries were. (Bit of a change from Alaska and Arizona, where the towns - be they large cities or mere outposts of civilization in the wilderness - are all surrounded by stretches of a whole lot of nothing.) Or like how, while I've lived somewhere with the humidity and somewhere with the heat, I've never quite had to deal with both at once. Fortunately it's not overly hot yet, but man...80 degrees in the desert is about 100 times more bearable. (Although all the lovely green grass and trees is a balm for my desert-scorched eyes that are used to seeing nothing but brown as far as the eye can reach right now.)
Aside from the show, activities so far have been light. We went to see Bridesmaids on a whim yesterday, and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Cringe-comedy has never really been my thing, but the scriptwriters were smart enough to realize that it was the dressing to the story rather than the whole of the story, and said story felt quite authentic and true. I particularly liked how, while there was the obligatory fat/plain/socially awkward character who got a lot of the obligatory fat/plain/socially awkward jokes, they also gave her a couple of scenes that fleshed her character out somewhat, and even made her a bit of a badass, both emotionally/mentally and physically.
In any case, I've been suffering from severe travel-insomnia, and managed my first block of more than four hours of uninterrupted sleep in a good 72 hours just now. So I'm going to see if I can keep on with my lucky streak, especially as I've heard rumblings that we may be off to the Detroit Zoo today. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my...
