Thunderous applause

[pallas_athena]

My city has welcomed me home properly. Since I've been here, we've had at least three real DC thunderstorms. Today's was a beauty: rain sheeting down, sky-splitting flashes, a constant thunder like the drums of war (back when war involved drums.)

Tonight, the air is full of the smell of rain. (DC summers have an especially wet green smell, even in the burning sun, so the post-thunderstorm scent here is especially intense.) Yesterday evening, watched by a few curious fireflies, I planted tomatoes, basil and sage in my mother's garden. The rain should make them happy.

Rehearsals with quesadelia are going well, except that Richard Strauss is stomping all over my brain in spike-heeled boots. He and I will come to an agreement of some sort soon, I hope.

Tonight I went to hear a concert performance of Eugene Onegin at the Kennedy Center. I love that opera, and somehow I was in the right mood for it today. Having heard a bunch of talented people sing about my problems for three hours, I feel much better.

Also, I was officially the last geek in the country to see Iron Man-- but having seen it, I MUST HAVE ROBERT DOWNEY JUNIOR now. If you see him, can you please put him in one of those FedEx boxes and send him along? If you use enough packing tape, he shouldn't struggle too much. Thanks.

Comments

[miriya-b.livejournal.com]

Glad Onegin was good! Tho' we missed you at the Bloomsday 2008 reading... I have to say, it was made good for me from the start by being one of the folks whose names were drawn from a hat to pick up a prize: I went for a Jameson's flask, which the organizer then obligingly filled from his bottle of Jameson's: yay!

And I am picking up your now-discarded title of last geek in the country to see Iron Man. ;) (How am I supposed to see it, I ask you, if my husband & geek-peeps have all seen it already!? :p )

[suetekh.livejournal.com]

Come home safe! Looking forward to tea and cake on your return.

G was saying he didn't like DC, so I was stanchly defending your city, but then I went with the best guides imaginable and had so much fun...

...and yes, Iron Man, yumlicious! I love the glowy thing in his chest...let's go see Hancock when I'm in London too as that looks silly fun...plus the Thursday I'm up there should be a Tav on, and as I haven't been to one in many many moons, I should like to go...

[laughingmagpie.livejournal.com]

I remember my first storms in your neighbourhood - we have pretty respectable thunderstorms with hail and stuff, but yours are splendidly torrential! I was impressed!

"Having heard a bunch of talented people sing about my problems for three hours, I feel much better."
Cool how Opera serves its purpose!

[quesadelia.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you and Strauss might come to a very kinky agreement, with those spike-heeled boots. Add me, and instant threesome.

What? I'm at work now. I need excitement.