Weekend update, and a meme.

[saxikath]

My weekend, in handy bullet point form:

• Ordered my new computer. After much comparing and seeking advice, I settled on a Toshiba M50. Not top of the line, but considerably better (and lighter) than my old one. Also got a new printer and a wireless router.
  
• Now I just have to keep the old one functioning till the new one arrives. I basically can't move it; I have the power cord duct-taped to the back of the screen to keep it in the only position in which it seems to work, and that doesn't even always work. Sheesh.
  
• Saw one of my Anything Goes castmates (the one who played Sir Evelyn, for those few of you that saw the show) as Fagin in a production of Oliver! out in Foxboro. Excellent show. I'd never noticed before how much Fagin is a stereotypical stage Jew. Even the orchestration of "Reviewing the Situation" has a lot of what I think of as traditionally Jewish musical elements.
  
• Rang handbells. I get the weirdest calluses from bellringing.
  
• They've started installing the new organ at church. I need to take pictures tonight at handbell rehearsal. It's fascinating to see all the pipes and pieces.
  
• Did some laundry and Enigma work, so it wasn't totally unproductive.
  

And, a meme, from all over everywhere.
As you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, so many memories of you... How about you in your almost bare apartment in Sommerville? I remember coming by one afternoon to visit shortly after you'd moved in.

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

I remember some long email discussions we had back in '93 or '94, when I was still working on my Ph.D. on-campus. I don't remember what we talked about as much as I remember just talking in the first place—a.c and its derivative email conversations were two of the few things that really "kept me sane" during that era.

Oh, and "Oh, my darling Valentine" (TTTO "Clementine"). :-)

[luckylefty.livejournal.com]

So if you ever go to the Orpheum theater in Foxboro again, give us a call. We'll probably be interested in joining you, but even if not, you should certainly drop by and hang out with us before or after; we live about a mile and a half from the theater!

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

The very first time I spoke to you was at my first ACPT, pre-NPL, just after you blew everyone away to win the B Division. All I did was wish you congratulations and you said thanks, but I still have frozen in my head that combination of shock and happiness in your face.

Plus it was really neat seeing you in Sweeney Todd.

[cycon.livejournal.com]

I've never acutally seen Oliver!, but certainly in the book Fagin is described as a stereotypical Jew, hook-nose and all. I think a lot of adaptations try to gloss over that, though, for obvious reasons.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

yikes, which memory do I pick? Howzabout, writing the Supreme Hydrator sketch for my first Mystery Hunt. :)

And yes, "Reviewing The Situation" contains deliberately Klezmer-esque clarinet solos and the stringendo common to tunes used for dancing the hora, among other cultural musical references. :)

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

i was hanging out with you and Tah in the lobby of the hotel at Concouver, and it struck me how bright and interesting you were, even at the very tail end of an exhausting week. i wish we lived closer, because i'd love to get to know you better!

[stevie-stever.livejournal.com]

The line in Yeomen of the Guard that blows my Fairfax backwards. I loved your delivery of that line. Tush in thy teeth, old man! iirc...

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

I remember standing on a Cambridge-or-Boston balcony having a very interesting conversation with you, being joined by Sheeyun, and then having the entire rest of the realspace pile in!

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

Ordered my new computer. After much comparing and seeking advice, I settled on a Toshiba M50.
A very good choice, if you ask me, from what I've seen of its specs in past.


And now the memory thing:

In the spring of 1987, I hit you on the head with a (real wooden Louisville Slugger) baseball bat, though I hadn't intended to. We just wanted to make it look like that on film, but I overextended the arc over my shoulder by a bit.

Sorry about that!

Too bad that film trailer was eaten by the projector during its first screening! I wish I still had a copy.

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

Hee. I enjoyed the fun pix in Hollywood, too (as you commented in my lj).

My memory here: you agreeing to switch places with Xemu and become the editor instead of keeping your nice cushy VP position. You lifted a giant weight from me.

[kelkyag]

<sings, badly>
A river is flowing,
Flowing and growing.
A river is flowing
down to the sea.

Mother, carry me;
A child I will always be.
Mother, carry me
down to the sea.