tirinian

More or less straightened out to a normal-ish week, although still kind of tired. More jetlagged-just-back-from-CA tired than the terrible tired of the week before, though. Plugged away at work and finished the big project that was due Tuesday, mostly, except it's not due Tuesday anymore, so the mostly is fine and there will be more messing with it this week.

Most stuff that happened was kind of spur-of-the-moment, instead of pre-scheduled:

Monday: Just gym and home, I think.
Tuesday: Dinner with

brilit at Christopher's.
Wednesday: Dreamgirls, at the Colonial. I hadn't seen the play before, only the movie, and I think the movie is actually a little better, using more dialog and less sung-through to establish the characters. (The play isn't quite entirely sung-through, but there certainly aren't any scenes that are just dialog.) My main problem with both of them, though, is that the big "betrayal" of Effie is actually the right thing to do. She's screwing it up, and everyone knows it. They handle it badly, but booting her is right, and all the "oh we were so terrible" stuff in the second act doesn't work for me as a result. Still, it was well performed. Lives 8 days of game before storming off in a huff because it doesn't like the way the GMs are running things.
Thursday: Title of Show, at Speakeasy. The reviews all described this as great fun as long as you weren't expecting anything deep, and that's about right. A musical about writing a musical, it's amusing and pleasantly self-referential without being ham-handed about it. It's all one act and only about 90 minutes, and seemed long at that, but I wonder if it would have been better served to be slightly longer and have an intermission at the obvious break point (the first ~half is "we write the first draft of the script", the second ~half is "we revise and revise as we work our way through festivals and off-Broadway towards Broadway). I think that would have made it seem less long, but might have broken the flow of the piece. I dunno. Anyway, it was good. Lives 9 days of game as a character part, and forgets to come in on the tenth.
Friday: Went by campus and ghosted Masquerade for a while, then went to the Murderchurch party.
Saturday: Puttered some, then work for a while, then to the 5E party. Not as much fun as the last one I was at, but ok. Dragged Germany back to it, as he was leaving just as I got there, but didn't actually see him so much at the party.
Sunday: The vague plan was to stay home and clean my room, but I mostly just stayed home and played computer games, then wandered over to

mjperson's to watch a weird movie about computer's taking over the world, and then a martial arts-ish movie.