Off On

I took my first of the make-up days yesterday for the extra days I worked back in January. My original plan would have been to take today off with it but a deployment came up today so I'll be off on Monday instead. Anyway, I still made pretty good "use" of my day off! I got some cds in the mail from Erototox: Gillian Leigh Bowling, John Duncan, Elena M. Rosa Lavita: Nightfall; Xambuca: Joulupukki; Jochen Arbeit + Sonja Kosche: Zuhaus; and Carl Michael von Hausswolff: Still Life - Requiem. The first two I'd ordered along with that Lydia Lunch Suicide covers cd. The Nightfall ended up being the last copy and the shrinkwrap was torn so Chandra threw in the other two as a bonus and that was super nice of him! Mary Beth and I went to have lunch at Little Italy. And so, a story behind that! Little Italy had been our go-to nearby pizza place for the longest time. Then at some point a few years ago it was bought up by a place called Slice and it was pretty similar (maybe not quite as good but close enough for being close and all). Well, not so long ago Slice closed and just kept their location way out east. So then we're sure there's no more good pizza left in Midtown. Well, Mary Beth discovered very recently that Little Italy is back in that location now! So we just did a quick run up there with slices from the counter. Then we ran some errands. I went to kinkos to print some flyers (it took forever 'cuz I had an issue with the copy machine and had to get a refund and they copied what I needed behind the counter) and Mary Beth dropped off a package at the post office. Then after that I went out and did some flyering for the April MC show. At night Mary Beth and I went to the Tennessee Shakespeare Company to see Romeo and Juliet. It's their free production that they travel around to parks and stuff (though they're doing a couple of shows of it in their building which is what we caught, and wasn't free, but I think they were half-price or something). Anyway, so it's their mobile backdrop and a pretty streamlined set. It was good though they ramped up the slapstick element. It's one that I hadn't really seen or read in such a long time, so it was nice to pick up on things I probably never would have paid attention to. Fun to se. Now back to work for this one day.