tabular_rasa | Nostalgia in the City Museum

Tiffany got here alright, albeit late (she missed the early-afternoon arrival that would allow her to meet Patricia and Keith and accompany me to Japanese-- though, in the end, Patricia had to go and find her, and she managed to meet, by fluke, Henry and Anu). So, last night, she went to my (pretty boring but full of food-- lol . . . ) Peer Advisory meeting with me, and then we went to dinner at Center Court, and then on to Improv, where I played a chipmunk whose head got put on a stake multiple times, lol . . .

We also watched Much Ado About Nothing (and stayed up late), which I am going to try out for, whatever part I might get, lol . . . none, in other words, most likely, lol . . .

. . . or Servingman Number One, perhaps? Lol . . .

This morning, it took Tiffany and I forever to get up, lol . . . but then Tiffany, Lisa, and I went to the City Museum. WOW THAT PLACE WAS AWESOME.

There were little themed playgrounds, basically-- a wilderness one, with forests (think Swiss Family Robinson tree-houses and such), caves, and a water-bit; an opera-house one (it was weird, it started out with all these pictures of opera shows and such, and then inside you could go up, into stone and metal staircases that twirled forever, and then down a vast twirly slide, or down into the bowels that eventually became caves and were AWESOME, and I, of course, sang Phantom of the Opera for a good part of the time, lol . . . ); a bank one (vault-themed, mostly just mirrors and circular passageways, lol . . . ); an outdoor one (castles to airplanes to the Olympian throne-room, lol . . . ); and a giant-ass slide.

We were followed around by two girls about the ages of 7 to 9 (I'm not quite sure; it varies on the size of the child, so I couldn't tell, because I didn't ask them . . . ), cousins named Taylor and Miranda, who led us around the forest, outdoor, and part of the opera house playgrounds and through spaces we never would have thought possible to fit through had we not been forced by them, lol . . .

We also introduced Lisa to roleplaying ^_^

We didn't get to do much, though, lol . . .

Ahh, it was like being a small child again. I miss it. I miss the boundless energy, and the ability to roleplay whatever I felt like without worrying about self-consciousness (not that I barely have any of that, anymore, even now, lol . . . ), the obviousness of situations and plots with just the bear minimum. I miss it ^_^ lol . . .

We went to the art center for a bit, too, and made slowflakes (I made butterfly and wolf-themed ones) and carved soap for soldiers in Iraq (I felt kind of silly/dumb . . . it's cute when a five-year-old does it, but not so much an 18-year-old, lol . . . ). Still, it's soap :-P and mine was a festive pumpkin, at that, lol . . .

I got Tory two tacky gifts for Christmas already. She will be delighted. No, Tory, I won't tell you what they are . . . but you will be delighted ^_^ They are our inside-joke toys, kind of . . . AND YOU WILL LOVE THEM!!!

. . . Shnoog.

Lisa still needs to read the ten-page-long description of our story, lol . . .

My headache seems to be recovering, though, and we need to go on a quest to make cloaks.