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Some activities what that I did

projectmothra stayed at my sister's last night. He got to see my nephew's Little League game, eat ice cream, and stay up too late watching godawful things on YouTube that said nephew decided to show him, and eat Apple Jacks for breakfast.

bard_bloom and I got to go into Manhattan to see the dress rehearsal/performance for this week's Prairie Home Companion, at the Town Hall. It was a good show. Elvis Costello was one of the guest stars; he was sweet and funny and played "Sulfur and Sugarcane" from the album he will be releasing in June. I realized by the end of the show that I usually listen to Prairie Home Companion in snippets rather than straight through, and that two and a half hours straight of it might be too much for me. Also, there was the strange experience of having someone at the end of my row faint, and in falling somehow get his head caught between the seats as he went unconscious. Or at least that's what I gathered happened after talking to people at intermission. At the time, I mostly heard a loud thump and a lot of commotion but no call for an ambulance or anything.(They got him untrapped before he came to, and he did come to within a few minutes, so all seemed to be relatively well.)

This afternoon we met a friend/former student/former coworker of bard_bloom's at the NY Coffee and Tea Show. projectmothra was way more polite than about half the other patrons, and scored free products by sheer cuteness. I was overall pretty unimpressed with the coffees but amused by quite a few of the teas, and by some varietal honeys from Greece. Afterward, we went to Books of Wonder, where I finally picked up a copy of the Graveyard Book (yay, supporting indie bookstores) and then to the attached Cupcake Cafe (yay buttercream).

I still seem to be really amused by the fact that I now have two-tone hair. I still lose a lot of hair in the shower, and when I see I'm holding strands of two notably different colors, it makes me giggle.