Meghan treated me to Avenue Q as a time-delayed birthday present on Saturday. It was fantastic. You have to love any play that opens with a puppet singing "What do you do with a B.A. in English?" (ouch!) and moves on to "It sucks to be me," "The Internet is for porn" and "Everyone's a little bit racist sometimes." Tres bien.
Inspired by this site, my own take on chocolate arachnids: chocolate mini-cakes with pureed cherry filling (the "guts"), coated in hard chocolate and adorned with Pocky legs (32 pieces of Pocky individually cut and reglued at an angle), then decorated with eyes (and, for Lane's, fangs and a black widow decoration).
They only took two hours (partly because they have a lot of parts, and partly because I ruined an entire pan of melted chocolate and had to start the coating process over again).
The twins were thrilled (although Alec quizzed me very closely to make sure there weren't any *actual* spider parts in it). Lane about died in delight.
Shortly after that, Kyle thanked me by accidentally clocking me with a toy, leaving a hideous bruise the size of a 50-cent-piece in the middle of my forehead that everyone seems to find funny.
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Monday, September 8
Mathematics in Music
There's actually some mathematical reasoning behind the prevalence of Canon in so many other pieces of music, but I couldn't find it in my cursory search. I'll have to see if I can come up with it later.
I introduced the twins to Skype earlier this week. They were a little unsure at first, but with Lane's help they got the hang of it. Alec in particular was fascinated and spent a good ten minutes making faces at me (while I made faces back). Kyle thought it was great for awhile, but then, in Kylie-fashion, got distracted by other shiny things in Lane's room.
That reminds me that I need to load Skype on Haley's MacBook.
I'm not sure the English language is varied enough to convey just what a bad idea this was. We may have to create a new 27-syllable German compound-noun or something. I'm not familiar with the power strip configuration, so I'm guessing these soon-to-be-medium-rare specimens of brilliance are somewhere in Europe (unless Harley speaks up and claims them as Australian brain trusts).
I'm sure people will be horrified to hear that this project took only 75 pictures and most of two hours in Photoshop in order to gain some semblance of realism . . .
Haley is coming to visit me a week from this weekend. We're thinking of going to the climbing wall at Westroads (probably on Saturday). Anyone else want to go? I think they take reservations if you have enough people. Let me know.
