10.27.2004
les miz
neneng and i went to see the musical "les miserables" last night. i love going to see musicals and plays and operas and ballets and stuff like that. it's so fun! ah, and you feel so cultured sitting there. :) thanks for taking me along, neng, and lucky me that ronald didn't want to go. what an experience!
we also went to dinner prior to go to the theatre. i found this place on sandiegorestaurants.com and it was so GOOD! it's in hillcrest and it's called antico tuscano. i haven't had such good authentic italian food in a while. the last time was probably when andy and i went to little italy and had dinner there. the dinner was kinda slow paced and that made me and neneng late for les miz. the best part was that we had really GREAT seats, and so we couldn't go in until after the first 15 minutes (so we'll never know what happens in the first 15 minutes until we see it again). anyway, they finally let us late stragglers in and me and neneng find our row. we had orchestra seats (which if you don't know, that's the very bottom section near the stage), so neneng and i are trying to find our seats, so we're walking past all these people and obstructing their view, and i look to my left and the stage was right there. we were only 5 rows back! the actors could practically spit on us and there are me and neneng, walking right in front of everyone. so, then we walk through the entire row trying to find our seats and we finally figure out that our seats were the first two at the beginning of the row. lol. it was retarded. and everyone in our row looked pissed at us. it was hilarious. oh well.
so andy and i are going to vegas this weekend. i'm really excited! we've never gone with just me and andy, so that will be fun. we won't really be alone for that long cause everyone is arriving for andy's best friend's wedding on saturday. then it will be the wedding on saturday night, and on sunday andy and i are going out with his best friend's friends for halloween. and then we're coming back on monday. andy and i rented our halloween costumes and andy is going to be dread pirate roberts and i'm gonna be princess buttercup - both from the movie The Princess Bride. also, we're staying at circus circus for friday and saturday cause that's where andy's friends are staying, then on sunday we're staying at The Venetian. EXCITING!!! it's like we've joined the world of the HRC! yippee!
we also went to dinner prior to go to the theatre. i found this place on sandiegorestaurants.com and it was so GOOD! it's in hillcrest and it's called antico tuscano. i haven't had such good authentic italian food in a while. the last time was probably when andy and i went to little italy and had dinner there. the dinner was kinda slow paced and that made me and neneng late for les miz. the best part was that we had really GREAT seats, and so we couldn't go in until after the first 15 minutes (so we'll never know what happens in the first 15 minutes until we see it again). anyway, they finally let us late stragglers in and me and neneng find our row. we had orchestra seats (which if you don't know, that's the very bottom section near the stage), so neneng and i are trying to find our seats, so we're walking past all these people and obstructing their view, and i look to my left and the stage was right there. we were only 5 rows back! the actors could practically spit on us and there are me and neneng, walking right in front of everyone. so, then we walk through the entire row trying to find our seats and we finally figure out that our seats were the first two at the beginning of the row. lol. it was retarded. and everyone in our row looked pissed at us. it was hilarious. oh well.
so andy and i are going to vegas this weekend. i'm really excited! we've never gone with just me and andy, so that will be fun. we won't really be alone for that long cause everyone is arriving for andy's best friend's wedding on saturday. then it will be the wedding on saturday night, and on sunday andy and i are going out with his best friend's friends for halloween. and then we're coming back on monday. andy and i rented our halloween costumes and andy is going to be dread pirate roberts and i'm gonna be princess buttercup - both from the movie The Princess Bride. also, we're staying at circus circus for friday and saturday cause that's where andy's friends are staying, then on sunday we're staying at The Venetian. EXCITING!!! it's like we've joined the world of the HRC! yippee!
10.15.2004
....and he knocked 2 of her teeth out....
that has to do with a story my co-worker told me today. it's a funny story, not one of violence. but anyway...
we're slowly but surely settling into my mom's house. it's hard not to keep calling it her house, when it's our house. it's just kinda weird. like andy isn't used to the light switches and i know where they are exactly and he's like "well, i'm not used to it yet" and i'm like "i am... i lived here for years" but it was my parents' house. hmmm...
so, andy and i are leaving to arizona tonight. the entire purpose of the trip is to go to the arizona state fair with andy's dad, stepmom, and his sister. but andy is also going to try on his tuxedo for his best friend's wedding that he's going to be in at the end of the month.
well, i'm leaving work early so that's all of an update i can provide. have a nice weekend.
we're slowly but surely settling into my mom's house. it's hard not to keep calling it her house, when it's our house. it's just kinda weird. like andy isn't used to the light switches and i know where they are exactly and he's like "well, i'm not used to it yet" and i'm like "i am... i lived here for years" but it was my parents' house. hmmm...
so, andy and i are leaving to arizona tonight. the entire purpose of the trip is to go to the arizona state fair with andy's dad, stepmom, and his sister. but andy is also going to try on his tuxedo for his best friend's wedding that he's going to be in at the end of the month.
well, i'm leaving work early so that's all of an update i can provide. have a nice weekend.
10.07.2004
112
I saw someone from high school the other night... wow, man. wow. I can't believe it's been 8 years since I graduated. When people talk about it going fast, they aren't kidding...
Anyway, here's something for you young ladies who have the right, but aren't considering making the effort to vote. Do what you gotta do, but I'm sure I'll have my "I voted" sticker for me share.
The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of "obstructing sidewalk traffic."
They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?
Everyone should watch HBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that we could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have our say. I think some of us needed the reminder.
"What would those women think of the way we use--or don't use—our right to vote?
All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn." The right to vote, should become valuable to us "all over again."
HBO will run the movie periodically before releasing it on video and DVD. We are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and maybe a little shock therapy is in order.
It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy. The doctor admonished the men: "Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity."
Please pass this on to all the women you know. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women.
Anyway, here's something for you young ladies who have the right, but aren't considering making the effort to vote. Do what you gotta do, but I'm sure I'll have my "I voted" sticker for me share.
The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of "obstructing sidewalk traffic."
They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?
Everyone should watch HBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that we could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have our say. I think some of us needed the reminder.
"What would those women think of the way we use--or don't use—our right to vote?
All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn." The right to vote, should become valuable to us "all over again."
HBO will run the movie periodically before releasing it on video and DVD. We are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and maybe a little shock therapy is in order.
It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy. The doctor admonished the men: "Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity."
Please pass this on to all the women you know. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women.
