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To clarify:
The Trachtenburg Family Sildeshow Players shows on Tuesdays are not actually free, but $7. Tonight it was very crowded. Good for them! I'm glad to see an art form I can so unequivocally support gain popularity.

The band afterward, (terrible name) Hazmat Modine, had many attractions including a guy playing Chinese mouth organ, a claviera )small sideways piano with whistle part?), tuba with wawa pedal, and my favorite, Henry Bogdan of Helmet on steel lap guitar. I love those old songs from the 20s and 30s.

It was very strange to hang around in Galapagos after not living in Williamsburg for a full year. I remember what I liked and hated about it. I keep seeing people I know, which is sometimes good and sometimes bad (unsuccessful dates from two years ago, er).

I took my visiting new friend Christa from Denver down to the waterfront in the falling snow and told her some tales about fireworks and building the tallest thing you can build out of crap that's there, and getting busted at Mike's bachelor party and and...

It's my birthday!

And I'm going to the Post office!
I've officially entered the zone of unemployment where taking a shower/doing laundry/etc. becomes a task that takes all day to accomplish.

Tonight jenslinky is taking me to a birthday surprise show of some kind. I am psyched and really have no idea what it could be. She is the best best friend and has totally been there for me in my huge life upheaval of the last week or so.

My birthday present to myself?
I'm going to my favorite lady who cuts my hair. I like her because she takes charge of me and doesn't let me waffle about it. Everybody else who cuts it asks me if I like it and if it's the way I want it, and that's a disaster because I'm always like "It's too long. I mean too short. I want to grow it out why are you cutting it more? Stop!". I need someone to tell me that it's just right and then I believe them.

Oh yes.

Excellent things:
Jen took me to the Carnegie Deli for a very large Reuben and then to the Zeigfeld Theater (my very favorite) to see Chicago. AWESOME. I made her stop and look at all the exhibits and photos of the Zeigfeld Beauties. After seeing the Pontani Sisters the other night all I want to do now is sit around the house and sew sequins onto bras.

The best part was the audience clapped after all the songs and was so gay. I loved it, although Renee Zellweger was so skinny it looked like she was going to crack in half when she bent over. Evidently ribcages were the big accessory in the 20s.

In other good news, my CD player spontaneously fixed itself, and I figured out a way to make hotmail work on my computer (sounds like a little thing, but it's important).

Also, on the way home, I noticed a Help Wanted sign in the video store on the corner (3 blocks from my house, ha!)I went in and the Chinese dude who owns the place interviewed me by warning me that they couldn't pay very much (and I go "in cash, though?" and he goes "Yeah, sure." Also he goes "Are you Chinese?" which is so illegal, but you know, Asian people are nosy and HAVE to KNOW. I told him I was half and couldn't read or speak Mandarin and he looked disappointed as I imagine my Chinese uncles might look if they lived in America and had a bad niece like me.) So I might be taking three or four nights a week, 6-11 there. It's a pretty depressing place but I don't know, the life of a video store clerk seems a-ok. Mandroid does it...

Setting my career goals low has been great so far.