I didn’t intend to attend the Cher concert. I also didn’t know that Cyndi Lauper was the opening act. But I thought, “What the hell?” after a fortuitous lunchtime conversation with a friend who said that, often, on the day of a major concert, some of the comp tickets that were given to radio stations, … Read more
~Thursday~ My friend Bob bought me a ticket to join him to see LeAnn Rimes, who performed tonight with the North Carolina Symphony in the Maymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. I cried during five of her songs, and this blog entry is about trying to get my head … Read more
~Saturday~ I was up at around 8:30 and I hopped on the #1 downtown train to Columbus Circle. Coming up out of the subway, I saw a Subway (sandwich shop), which I just found both interesting and redundant. I made my way over to 9th Avenue, between 57th and 58th, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood … Read more
~Tuesday~ Two-and-a-half months ago, I bought tickets to the October 8, 2011 Adele concert at the Durham Performing Arts Center in a frantic twenty or thirty minutes at her UK website and on and off the phone with the fraud department of both my credit card and my debit card. I was so looking forward … Read more
~Wednesday~ I was running way behind this morning, so much so that I caught the #9 Wolfline at the Gorman and Kaplan stop at 8:40. When I arrived at the stop, a student was there waiting and seeing me look at my CrackBerry, she asked, “Is it close?” “Yes, it’s at the stop before this … Read more
~Saturday~ I was up at a decent hour this morning, since I was to bed at a decent one. Robert arrived at 6:00 and we went over to K&W Cafeteria in Cameron Village for a quick dinner. I had some most delicious ham and cheese casserole, with a side of cooked mushrooms, and a shredded … Read more
~Thursday~ I drove to work today, as I wanted to be able to run to the post office during the day to meet the deadline of getting my NC Flexible Health Care Spending Account reimbursement submission post-marked today, as required. After one final check with my dentist’s office, I had to remove a significant—$189.00—entry, as … Read more
~Saturday~ At a little after 12:30, I met Jen at the Hillsborough Building where we work on NC State’s campus. We left her car there, and I drove us to The Diner in Glenwood South, to which Jen had never been, and where we had lunch and bookend cocktails. Hey, it was after noon. Jen … Read more
~Sunday~ We were up at 10:00 and checked out at about 11:30. We stopped by the Drunkin’ Donuts, where we encountered the most incredibly slow service ever. I finished my donut while Joe waited for them to make two cups of coffee for him. On the way out, I said to him, “If I lived … Read more
~Tuesday~ Not one of my named characters was on the bus this morning. I even re-checked the bus route (not that I could be on any bus other than the #12 Method Inbound, since it’s the only one that stops by my house) and I checked the time to see if perhaps I had fallen … Read more