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Shobhit's first rehearsal for
The Foreigner was last night. I haven't had a chance yet to ask him how it went, as it was in Olympia at the venue where the play will be performed (the State Theater, downtown) and I was asleep by the time he got home. I don't even have a clue what time he got home. I did make the second of the two take-and-bake pizzas we had from the PCC Deli from when they had a BOGO sale; I left his four slices out for him to eat, and I kept two of my slices to have for dinner tonight. I'm not sure what he'll do for dinner tonight; maybe he'll make something before he leaves today.
He has rehearsal tonight as well, but starting tonight, the rehearsal venue is in Tacoma, at least until March 1 when they shift to the State Theater again. I just realized Opening Night is three weeks from tomorrow, which means he has that much time to get off book on the script.
I guess most of the actors cast are not actually from Olympia, and are coming from places like Tacoma or Seattle. This is a big reason for a lot of rehearsals over the next two weeks being in Tacoma instead of Olympia. For Shobhit, Tacoma is still far, but at least it's half the distance. They're rehearsing in a space called "The Spire," which I discovered today is a
100-year-old church turned into a performance venue (that article calls it 89 years old, but that was published in 2015; the building was constructed in 1926). I find this kind of fascinating.
Anyway, he has rehearsal there tonight and tomorrow night 6:00 - 11:00, and on Saturday 12-6. If I see him tonight or tomorrow night in both cases it will be brief. I probably won't see him at all tomorrow night as I'm seeing a movie with Laney after work, albeit a rather early one at 3:30 (which, due to trailers, won't actually start until 4:00; I plan to leave work at 3:45). He has rehearsal on Sunday as well but that one's at a TPS theater studio here in Seattle, at Seattle Center.
It's very unclear what we'll do for Valentine's Day, if anything, this year. I really hoped I could get him to go see
Wuthering Heights with me but that's super iffy. He probably won't even get home until around 7:00 and may not be up for going out.
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What else can I tell you? I was home alone all evening last night, which I already noted in
last night's post about the Seahawks Victory Parade. Between that and captioning
all the photos, that pretty much took up my entire evening.
I did take a break from that work to chop vegetables for the pizza. I listened to Stevie Nicks. I listened to podcasts.
I'm really getting into the novel I'm reading, called
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle. This was one of the recommendations I got by using the "
Your Next Five Books" feature at the Seattle Public Library, which so far is working spectacularly well for me. I can't recommend this service enough! This particular book is basically horror, with some lightly comic elements, but it's about a gay script writer in Hollywood who is nominated for an Oscar and his past horror monster creations have been manifested and are coming after him. I don't typically go for horror—and the chapter I just read was particularly gruesome—but everything else about it is practically tailor made for me. I'm not yet ready to rave about the book as a complete work because I am waiting to see how well it sticks the landing in the end. But, so far so good!
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Oh. I guess I could tell you I just had what I like to call a "Power User Lunch," with Cathryn and Amanda—because we are the three biggest "power users" of Retalix HQ (commonly referred to as just "HQ"), the item maintenance system we use here at work. Amanda was here yesterday and left at 3:30 because she thought she wasn't feeling well, so I wondered if the lunch would happen today. Well, she must be feeling well enough because she did come in today.
She left it to Cathryn and me to decide on where to go. Cathryn asked me if I had any ideas. Well, I keep eyeing this "Freya's Bakery & Cafe" right across the street from Rainier Square on 5th and Union so I suggested we go there. It was kind of expensive, which was why I skipped the veggie breakfast croissant sandwich I really wanted because it was fucking $18, and instead got the slice of veggie quiche which was $9.50—and, I have to admit, maybe the best quiche I had ever had. Or at the very least, I've never had better. I can usually take it or leave it when it comes to quiche but this was amazing. When we left I said, "I'd come back just for that quiche. And I've never said that about quiche."
We hadn't had a "Power User Lunch" since before the office move last September; this was our first at the new location—and, indeed, my first time going out for lunch since the move, that I can recall off the top of my head right now anyway. It was lovely, as I really like both Cathryn and Amanda and we make a great team, which means it's also fun to hang out outside of work.
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