: La Boheme :
It's been so unseasonably warm here the last few days - mid and upper 60s during the day - but it should change after today once this rainy and windy cold front moves through. We should be seeing our first sub-freezing temperatures of the winter early next week. After this warm spell, I think I'm more than ready for some genuine, December East Coast weather.
Lots of good things happening at work, but probably not much of interest to the people who read this blog. Suffice to say that I'm actually starting to make some friends, and people are starting to notice me more, and become a little more interested in who I am as a person. Of course, this requires me to walk a fine line between being friendly and open, and not saying too much about my past. Not that I think I'd be ostracized or anything (at least not publicly) but you never know how people are going to react and I'd rather not find out.
Tonight I'm going to see Puccini's La Boheme at Lincoln Center, the same night as some of my female co-workers are going to see the Nutcracker. So the plan is to all go out for a quick dinner somewhere after work, and then we'll all go to Lincoln Center, where they will go to the ballet and I will head off alone to the opera. I'm very much looking forward to the performance tonight - it will be my first time at Lincoln Center, a mecca of opera lovers worldwide, and I have a front-row seat in the Dress Circle level, which is the third of five levels up in the hall (above Parterre and Grand Tier, and below Balcony and Family Circle). I think it might even be my first time seeing La Boheme live, which would be hard to believe since it's one of my three favorite operas (the others being Verdi's Tosca and La Traviata).
I hope everyone has a nice weekend!
Lots of good things happening at work, but probably not much of interest to the people who read this blog. Suffice to say that I'm actually starting to make some friends, and people are starting to notice me more, and become a little more interested in who I am as a person. Of course, this requires me to walk a fine line between being friendly and open, and not saying too much about my past. Not that I think I'd be ostracized or anything (at least not publicly) but you never know how people are going to react and I'd rather not find out.
Tonight I'm going to see Puccini's La Boheme at Lincoln Center, the same night as some of my female co-workers are going to see the Nutcracker. So the plan is to all go out for a quick dinner somewhere after work, and then we'll all go to Lincoln Center, where they will go to the ballet and I will head off alone to the opera. I'm very much looking forward to the performance tonight - it will be my first time at Lincoln Center, a mecca of opera lovers worldwide, and I have a front-row seat in the Dress Circle level, which is the third of five levels up in the hall (above Parterre and Grand Tier, and below Balcony and Family Circle). I think it might even be my first time seeing La Boheme live, which would be hard to believe since it's one of my three favorite operas (the others being Verdi's Tosca and La Traviata).
I hope everyone has a nice weekend!
