10 50 pm pdt [ home ]
We have just returned from the Baryshnikov
performance. "He's a cultrual icon. You'll love seeing him!" my mom had
said. He is a cultural icon. For that I can forgive him his infinitely
short solo performance. It was a fun evening out.
During the evening, I made Matthew laugh very hard three times. First I
suggested that Baryshnikov was performing weak little dances just to amuse
himself and laugh at the audience. He worked hard to achieve a position
where he can sell ticket by virtue of his name alone and now he sits back
and enjoys selling out shows in which he dances very little and none of
his dances are difficult.
Then during the second intermission I asked, "Will you
still love me if when I'm old I sometimes want to wear an eye patch for no
reason?" During the standing ovation at the end, I leaned over to Matthew
and whispered, "Baryshnikov gets laid a lot." I like making him laugh
more than most anything else on the planet.
[I dreamt I was at work and everything was perfectly normal. Nicholas
L. was asking me to go with him to the classroom where he had forgotten
something. I've never had a dream that was completely normal before.]
Despite the fact that a lot of my plants have died
since I moved into this apartment, I got a new one today. I wasted to
replace my Scilla violacea and in doing so I learned that its new
name is Ledebouria socialis.
I have that urge to catalog again, so I began taking
photos for a major update of my plant list...
First I repotted a "fat plant" that
has not yet been identified. It had large roots like stubby parsnips.
Then I repotten my new Ledebouria socialis.
A beetle kept me company.
We have a rather impressive collection of plants in our
building's garden and occasionally people abandon plants there. Such is
the case with this succulent. You can see all the baby plants growing
along the leaves. I think it might be a Bryophyllum pinnatum
"Katakataka". It may also be a Kalanchoe.
I took seven baby plantlets off it as well as one
rooted plantlet I found on the ground below it.
There are all happily planted now and I hope some of
them will take.
