I killed my plant.

I think I have to go to a greenhouse and just say, "Hi, do you have any cold-loving plants that don't need much sunlight or attention?"

This week was pretty good, though I've been kind of sick. Didn't go to see Lez Zeppelin after all; spent a quality night doing dishes and laundry and going to sleep. My sinuses have been on strike, stomping around waving signs in the air and poisoning my throat and face. I have had more tea and water and soup this week than any other time in my life. I had this gig on Wednesday night at the cultural center, plus lots of rehearsals and regular WW teaching and was really nervous about the state of my vocal chords and ability to resonate. In the end, I made it though the sorer, tireder times and was nice and clear for Wednesday night.

We were part of this big performance art event at the Cultural Center called Site Unseen. Here is a tiny description of the night. Our piece involved butoh dance, a giant domed room that I got to sing in, plexiglass backpacks, iridescent short shorts, Taavo Lily Ben Alex JulieB and me (different Ben), traffic-like fastwalking, slow motion, convulsing, body dragging, insect movements, and I got to wear a baby blue BMX bike helmet. The piece finally came together really well. Taavo had invited me to be a part of it, and I invited Julie. We were there mainly as vocalists, imitating an Arvo Part piece in one part as we improvised falling minor scales over a sustained string drone for eight minutes. Then later I sang the John Rutter melody to Be Thou My Vision, first just on oohs and ahs and then with the words, acapella, slowly, while the group of performers walked around the room super slowly. It took about 13 minutes. But it was really fun to sing in there and sounded great. Julie and I joined in then for some walking and movement stuff. I really had fun being a part of a performance like that. It was the first non-concert peformance I've had in three years. It felt great and it was fun to get to know the group. Ben came to the show and sat through both runs. Then afterwards we went to Skylark with Julie and her roommate Brad and Jason. Very fun times!

Monday was the 7 year anniversary since my first date with Ben, after opening night of my high school's performance of See How They Run. 7 years is a long time! We went out to a very fancy restaurant called May Street Market. We had drinks, and then appetizers (I picked the maytag blue cheesecake with red wine poached bosc pear, arugula, spiced pecans, and bartlet pear sorbet-- stunning!), entrees (I had roasted venison medallions in a pistachio crust with chive spaetzle, carrot puree, and lingonberry sauce-- hooooooweee!!!) and dessert (vanilla semifreddo, caramelized bananas, double chocolate ganache, caramel sauce-- g'damn!) Ben had some kind of salmon appetizer and ducky dinner. It was super extra fun and fancy. We had a really really fun night together.

Last night we got dinner at Smoke Daddy with Jess and Taavo. Meaty! Saucy!

Fun for tonight remains to be determined.