with the Sound of Music sing a-long night at the Castro Theatre! December 30th was just one of the many wonderful days I've had since moving to San Francisco, and I shall explain why.
My day started off with rolling into work at 10am and continued with a personal tour of SF's water metering system with my co-worker Mai and a dude lamed Lito. He showed us how to change out old, broken, residential meters and brought us into the basement of Macy's in Union Square so we could see what in the blazes a manifold actually looks like. Mai and I had many off-base speculations and this field trip put things into perspective.
Once we successfully escaped the lax security at Macy's (which consisted of an old guy sitting at a collapsible table in a dimly lit and poorly ventilated cement room), we headed to Bath & Body Works where we sampled the citrus sprays in an attempt to stay alert at work, versus our usual sleepy-eyed approach to Excel spreadsheets and meeting requests. After finding some amazing deals and conducting consumer product testing, we left with our newly purchased goodies for some delicious Chinese food, nuts, and chocolate whoppers before heading back to the maze of cubicles we call our office.
The work day quickly came to an end after the four hour, paid field trip. Once again I left the confines of my cubicle for the fresh winter air and headed for the Castro. While waiting for the ticket booth to open, I walked up and down Castro in search of the perfect cafe to grab a latte, read, and relax after a "hard day's work" and in the hopes of staying awake for the three hour sing a-long bash I had ahead of me. What I found was the cutest little cafe for chocolate lovers. Called 'Chocolate on Castro', this place serves a plethora of chocolate goodies and drinks. Though their espresso bar is limited, the caramel latte I ordered turned out to be the most delicious, heart-warming latte I'd ever had!
6pm arrived and I headed to the ticket booth to buy a ticket for myself and my room mate Ryan's girlfriend Gita. A fellow cat lover extraordinaire, Gita is as equally in love with The Sound of Music as she is with kitties. Naturally we got along very well and were beside ourselves when Maria first appeared on screen, singing "The hills are alive with the sound of music [doo doo doo doo]". When Gita was in 5th grade she played Gretl in a high school production of the movie, and has since watched it roughly 500 times, or so she claims. By the way she knew both lyrics and dialogue, I wouldn't bet against it.
The movie gets rather depressing half-way in, and continues this way for the remainder of the film. Being that I was a young girl the last time I had seen it, I had not remembered this and was therefore, well, depressed a bit. Needless to say, however, the sing a-long experience was nothing less than amazing and I can't wait for next year! Gita and I will be starting to work on our costumes in the near future. We're thinking goat marionette and Maria. This trans-species attire should go over well in the nightly costume contest.
My day started off with rolling into work at 10am and continued with a personal tour of SF's water metering system with my co-worker Mai and a dude lamed Lito. He showed us how to change out old, broken, residential meters and brought us into the basement of Macy's in Union Square so we could see what in the blazes a manifold actually looks like. Mai and I had many off-base speculations and this field trip put things into perspective.
Once we successfully escaped the lax security at Macy's (which consisted of an old guy sitting at a collapsible table in a dimly lit and poorly ventilated cement room), we headed to Bath & Body Works where we sampled the citrus sprays in an attempt to stay alert at work, versus our usual sleepy-eyed approach to Excel spreadsheets and meeting requests. After finding some amazing deals and conducting consumer product testing, we left with our newly purchased goodies for some delicious Chinese food, nuts, and chocolate whoppers before heading back to the maze of cubicles we call our office.
The work day quickly came to an end after the four hour, paid field trip. Once again I left the confines of my cubicle for the fresh winter air and headed for the Castro. While waiting for the ticket booth to open, I walked up and down Castro in search of the perfect cafe to grab a latte, read, and relax after a "hard day's work" and in the hopes of staying awake for the three hour sing a-long bash I had ahead of me. What I found was the cutest little cafe for chocolate lovers. Called 'Chocolate on Castro', this place serves a plethora of chocolate goodies and drinks. Though their espresso bar is limited, the caramel latte I ordered turned out to be the most delicious, heart-warming latte I'd ever had!
6pm arrived and I headed to the ticket booth to buy a ticket for myself and my room mate Ryan's girlfriend Gita. A fellow cat lover extraordinaire, Gita is as equally in love with The Sound of Music as she is with kitties. Naturally we got along very well and were beside ourselves when Maria first appeared on screen, singing "The hills are alive with the sound of music [doo doo doo doo]". When Gita was in 5th grade she played Gretl in a high school production of the movie, and has since watched it roughly 500 times, or so she claims. By the way she knew both lyrics and dialogue, I wouldn't bet against it.
The movie gets rather depressing half-way in, and continues this way for the remainder of the film. Being that I was a young girl the last time I had seen it, I had not remembered this and was therefore, well, depressed a bit. Needless to say, however, the sing a-long experience was nothing less than amazing and I can't wait for next year! Gita and I will be starting to work on our costumes in the near future. We're thinking goat marionette and Maria. This trans-species attire should go over well in the nightly costume contest.
Costume contest.
