Just a note to all y'all, that I have successfully retrieved my Watson from the airport, and will probably not be blogging loads for a little while. I'm not dead, I'm just Sherpa-ing her around Boston. She also grew up in Arizona; if I just let her loose on the streets of Cambridge, I'm pretty sure we'd never see her again.
About a week ago, I crewed a show at the studio theater for a non-profit outfit up from New York. The guys who run it are friends of our executive artistic director, and they come up two or three times a year. I like them; I dealt with them a bunch when I was at the box office, because when you're the most experienced person they have around they hand you all of the EAD's friends, and I have an unofficial standing request to work their shows even when I'm not the only crew who is both in town and not drowning in finals. One of the guys, as it turns out, is laid up with an injury right now, so the other one had to fly solo, on top of performing in the show. I ran into him coming down the stairs as I was going up, and as soon as he saw me he just lit up like, oh, it's you! How are you are you working are you going to be my box office again! I told him I'd swapped over to doing tech and he asked if I was disappointed that I didn't get to dress up anymore. I
Hope you have lots of fun while she's up visiting. :)
ReplyDeleteSo far, so good. Moggie isn't necessarily much for the usual historic monuments and tourist attractions, but she's fascinated by city infrastructure. She's so far spent most of her time on the subway with her face smashed against the window, looking for sidings, and for reasons that escape me was enchanted by the T commuter rail. Tomorrow she wanted to go hunting for a museum of anatomical curiosities which turns out to be out near Brigham and Women's Hospital somewhere, and will therefore involve streetcars.
DeleteMost excellent! I can understand the fascination with the subway. It kept me entertained as a kid on the London Underground, and more recently I read a book on the subterranean workings of London which was so interesting. It detailed all the disused stations, the rivers and sewers and how the Underground lines were built in the first place, and also the Underground fluffers. Who were the people who sweep the asbestos dust off the tracks. Must have been great for their health...
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