Miscellaneous Monday

Monday, August 27, 2012

Falling Apart

My trip last week was pretty uneventful as these things go. I didn't miss any airplanes, my lodging reservations were all as planned, nobody lost my luggage. But dude - I am falling apart.

Over the course of the five day trip, I started to strongly suspect I have cracked a molar, my left knee became rubbery and kept attempting to bend the wrong way, and I developed some sort of weird muscular pain in my lower back. I'll have my awesome (but weird) dentist look at the molar when we get back from WorldCon. My back stopped hurting as soon as I slept in my own bed and resumed my normal exercise routine (I guess 20 hours on planes in five days will do that to you). My knee has improved every day since Friday - so I should be good to go for WorldCon. I'm going to try and avoid so much air travel in such a short period of time in the future, though.

Sacrilege

Last night The Smart Man, the Incomparable Anne, my Hot Mom, my Hot Daughter, my Hot Daughter's hetero life partner and I attended one of the first non-Broadway showings of The Book of Mormon at our local performing arts center. The traveling show debuted here in Denver, and the tickets were the hottest things in town.

ZOMGWTFBBQ. This show is so funny, and far more sacrilegious than I anticipated. The traveling company did a great job with it, and you just have to love any show that includes the word "fuck" so much in its book. Like Dogma, the show is highly offensive to religious people, but the actual POINT of the show was an affirmation of faith rather than the opposite. I guess some people just have no sense of humor about their religious belief.

Three Days

We're leaving for WorldCon on Wednesday evening, and I can't wait. Everything's basically ready to go, including my awesome manicure.


My blog circle, The UCF, lost our friend Wendy last year, and we've decided to hold a wake for her at WorldCon. Wendy was very fond of purple, and I decided to honor her memory by ensuring that purple will be my dominant color for her wake. It makes me happy to do so, and I think it would make her chuckle.

We're going to try and take some pictures and such, but I probably won't blog about it until we return. Because I'll be too busy impersonating Zoe from Firefly and generally looking fabulous in purple. FABULOUS.

8 comments:

Stacey said...

Sorry you are falling apart. Sorry I'll miss seeing you this week. Happy you are feeling better and am looking forward to hearing about Worldcom upon your return.
Love the purple and know Wendy will be chuckling indeed.

The Mechanicky Gal said...

Falling apart: Yeah.
Book of Mormon: Fuck Yeah!
WorldCon: Sounds like great fun!
Wake: Sounds like not so great fun.

Janiece said...

MG, we intend to have fun at the Wake. Wendy was the kind of person who would prefer a celebratory event rather than a funereal one, so we shall be eating, drinking and making merry in her memory.

The Mechanicky Gal said...

Edited:
Wake: More great fun!

Janiece said...

Wake FTW!

Dr. Phil (Physics) said...

The wake is at a Japanese Teppanyaki restaurant, so it will be fun. Also we have a Viking Boat and the Chicago River and some of my sister's ashes.

Dr. Phil

Random Michelle K said...

Throw some Jack on the flaming Viking boat for me please!

Carol Elaine said...

Pretty purple nails!

I've always been amused that religious types get so offended by Dogma. I love that movie, but it is a total love letter to Christianity and non-hypocritical Catholics. But I'm not at all surprised that Book of Mormon is sacrilegious - it was written by Trey Stone and Matt Stone.

Wake FTW, indeed. We are going to rock the purple and the teppanyaki like no one else. We're going to do it up UCF-style, which y'all know is a asstons of style.