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Sep. 11th, 2013 09:19 amThings:
- It is going to be something like 90 degrees today. I do not at all approve. At least I get to work today at the library with actual air conditioning.
- Choir started on Monday, which was lovely, even if it is always a bit odd to start singing Christmas music in September. Still, the music looks to be fun and, so far, nothing we've rehearsed has been actively awful, so I'm excited. The choir is apparently going to be performing in Seattle sometime in October but, alas, I cannot go, as I will be attending a library conference that same day. Ah, well. I'll just have to wait till the performance in December.
- So, for the past several years, I've been using shampoo bars on my hair, since they're fun and tend to smell better (to me) than the bottled stuff. This week, I started adding a vinegar rinse to that and, OMG, you guys, it is amazing. My hair has never been this easy to brush right out of the shower, it stays silky-feeling for days afterward, and is at least marginally less frizzy. It's awesome. (The vinegar rinse does keep getting in my eyes, though, which is a problem. But that's down to user error.)
- I have been listening to the BBC radio production of Neverwhere. It is pretty great. Apparently, what we needed to do to get me to care about Richard and Door was have them be played by James McAvoy and Natalie Dormer, respectively. Sophie Okonedo is fantastic as Hunter, Anthony Stewart Head is not my Mr Croup but his Mr Croup is lovely*, and Benedict Cumberbatch sings in it, if that's a draw for you. (I approve of Benedict Cumberbatch playing alien/otherworldly beings because then it's easier to deal with the fact that he's quite good-looking some of the time but other times he looks like a giant anthropomorphic stick insect.) It feels a bit rushed sometimes and I miss some of the little funny bits in the narration, but all in all, it's a fun production and I recommend it.
- I have new boots! Because the old pair were developing holes and it's going to start raining all the time soon. (Fingers crossed!) They have Halloween laces, which makes me happy every time I look at them.
And those are the things of this morning.
*There was a large part of the first episode that I spent thinking, "Mr Vandemar is talking way too much" before I remembered that it was radio and otherwise you wouldn't be able to tell he was in the room. And then I felt silly.
- It is going to be something like 90 degrees today. I do not at all approve. At least I get to work today at the library with actual air conditioning.
- Choir started on Monday, which was lovely, even if it is always a bit odd to start singing Christmas music in September. Still, the music looks to be fun and, so far, nothing we've rehearsed has been actively awful, so I'm excited. The choir is apparently going to be performing in Seattle sometime in October but, alas, I cannot go, as I will be attending a library conference that same day. Ah, well. I'll just have to wait till the performance in December.
- So, for the past several years, I've been using shampoo bars on my hair, since they're fun and tend to smell better (to me) than the bottled stuff. This week, I started adding a vinegar rinse to that and, OMG, you guys, it is amazing. My hair has never been this easy to brush right out of the shower, it stays silky-feeling for days afterward, and is at least marginally less frizzy. It's awesome. (The vinegar rinse does keep getting in my eyes, though, which is a problem. But that's down to user error.)
- I have been listening to the BBC radio production of Neverwhere. It is pretty great. Apparently, what we needed to do to get me to care about Richard and Door was have them be played by James McAvoy and Natalie Dormer, respectively. Sophie Okonedo is fantastic as Hunter, Anthony Stewart Head is not my Mr Croup but his Mr Croup is lovely*, and Benedict Cumberbatch sings in it, if that's a draw for you. (I approve of Benedict Cumberbatch playing alien/otherworldly beings because then it's easier to deal with the fact that he's quite good-looking some of the time but other times he looks like a giant anthropomorphic stick insect.) It feels a bit rushed sometimes and I miss some of the little funny bits in the narration, but all in all, it's a fun production and I recommend it.
- I have new boots! Because the old pair were developing holes and it's going to start raining all the time soon. (Fingers crossed!) They have Halloween laces, which makes me happy every time I look at them.
And those are the things of this morning.
*There was a large part of the first episode that I spent thinking, "Mr Vandemar is talking way too much" before I remembered that it was radio and otherwise you wouldn't be able to tell he was in the room. And then I felt silly.
