Stacy Horn

I tried to go to the concert last night but it was a mob scene. That should have occurred to me. There was a long line, and then even more of us milling around, not quite ready to accept that we weren’t getting in. A man called out that there was a waiting list, but it was very long already.

So yeah. Poor planning on my part.

I’m trying to work up the energy to go to a concert tonight. It’s only a couple of blocks away, and this is the program:

– William Averitt’s Afro-American Fragments, based on texts by Langston Hughes.

– Classic spirituals and shape-note tunes, in arrangements by Marylou Jackson, Alice Parker, Brad Holmes.

– Choral works by Undine Smith Moore, Adolphus Hailstork, Ronald Stabeli, Frank Ticheli.

– The world premiere of Appalachian Requiem, by Michael Conley (WVC Musical Director) with chorus, soloists, string quartet, hammered-dulcimer, and piano.

I’d be crazy to miss it, right?? Here’s another picture from the park the other day. This is where I turned off 5th and went into the park.

The one downside about living downtown—we don’t have the park. I love walking alongside it almost as much as inside it. It makes me feel regal.

Buddy update: He’s been on the metronidazole for ten days and it hasn’t had any effect. I’m going to call the vet today to discuss.

I don’t get it. Most of my friends said the story wasn’t much, but the special effects were amazing, so why didn’t the 3D blow me away? And I saw it in the best IMAX theatre in the city. We also got there WAY early to get the best seats. (In the back in the middle.) Well I took pictures. Here is when there was only a few of us.

Now the theatre is filling up!

And this is looking inside the new Apple store, on our way back down to the street.

I saw these Christmas bulbs hanging on a tree on the upper west side the other day. It’s the little things. Little things like a shower, which I’m going to be able to take in a few minutes because there was no hot water here yesterday, YET AGAIN.

Other little things I have planned for my day: a movie with a friend, cat petting, a new Bones episode (and Fringe, and Grey’s Anatomy), good food will be had at some point, I’m just not sure what yet, I might take a walk after the movie, and I’ll have my camera of course so some picture taking, when I feed the birds I will have the pleasure of seeing that the food I left out for them yesterday was eaten, I’ll be making a list of the things I want to look for at the Municipal Archives and that will make me happy, knowing I’ll be going on a treasure hunt soon and oh god I just remembered!!

Did you all see that Times article about sitting and watching tv or reading, or working?? Apparently if you sit for a few hours every day, even if you exercise every day all that sitting greatly increases your chances of dying from anything. It cancels the exercise out. I am so screwed.