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I think I am pretty much doomed to never catch up.

a few days in Boston )

And then I get back Sunday afternoon and [personal profile] hyounpark greets me with "I said yes to performing at the Opera House this week, but I don't know if you've been checking your email, but I think they're assuming you're performing too because that's what happens when a married couple joins a choir?" Me: "A who in the what are we doing now?"

I'd thought our season was over. But our choral director got a last-minute call for us to close out a symposium on gun violence prevention and the role the arts can play in community healing, being done in conjunction with one of the operas San Francisco Opera is doing this season (Innocence) about the aftermath of a school shooting. So I went to Boston to recover from tech week and then came back into a surprise tech week, heh. Still very glad I did it, though. Afterwards, us singing in the stairwell of the Opera House, even more ethereal and better acoustics.

In the middle of that tech week, though, we had tickets for Sarah McLachlan at the Greek, and damn, I hope I still have those kind of pipes when I'm her age. I'd been expecting she was just going to do the songs off Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, but she began with a full set before that.

Feist opened: )

Sarah McLachlan setlist )

Somehow, this has become the month of shows - on top of our long-extant plans for SML, we saw The Lehman Trilogy last Saturday with CJ and Elana; for our part in singing in the symposium, we have tickets to go see Innocence next week; I have tickets for Iron and Wine at the Fox at the end of the month. And then my freshman year roommate messaged me a few days ago and was like, "Do you like Vampire Weekend? I've got an extra ticket for their show at the Greek." So definitely keeping busy!
ursamajor: the Swedish Chef, juggling (bork bork bork!)
It has been an exhausting year or three, but I am ready for this long December coming up. We'll actually be spending the vast majority of it away from the frigid Northeast! December 3, we'll fly out to San Francisco and have half a day in the city, then the next morning, we leave for HAWAII! I've never been, and I'm excited to get to go for a milestone birthday celebration :) We'll spend a week on the Big Island with my parents, then three days on Oahu with a college friend, and then fly to LA for the second half of December and the Park Family Christmas. Sad to miss Jewmas this year, but gosh, am I looking forward to this long holiday.

With that in mind, I would like to thank Joanne Chang of Flour and Tracy Chang of Pagu for making our Thanksgiving takehome meals this year; we just could not with everything. Sticky rice stuffed Cornish hens from Pagu, sticky buns from Flour, I pulled together mashed potatoes and gravy and cranberry sauce, and we were done. And it certainly qualifies as part of an Asian American Thanksgiving! Next year, we'll do better.
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The last sticky sticky bun is MINE. (As is a chocolate egg cream. I am going to *weep* when they take it off the menu in five days, says the lady who's bought at least a dozen this month.)

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