Bit of Ivory

Today, I bought my ticket to go to LA for a week! A couple of weeks ago, my friend Nicole called to tell me that Keane was going to be performing in Hollywood on June 21, and would I like to go? And I said absolutely, if you can get me a ticket. Well, she didn’t manage to get a ticket the first time around, but she found one with only a 100% markup (but since they started at $24, it wasn’t too bad) and got it for me. At first I was just going to fly down the day before and come back the day after (it’d cost me just as much to drive, with gas being so expensive these days), but then I got a text message that if I come the weekend before the concert, we could have his family’s beach house in Ventura all to ourselves. Teeeeempting. THEN, she called me this morning, and said that she found half-price tickets to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat staring Patrick Cassidy for the day after the Keane concert, and would I like to come to that? So what turned into a 3-day quick run has turned into a week-long California vacation, filled with fun! We’re also going to a concert by an old junior-high-and-high-school friend of ours, Nathan McEuen, who’s making a bit of a splash in the music business. The fun never ends!

I got on Priceline and managed to name my own price for a non-stop Delta flight to Ontario International, which is only about 15 min. from their house, for $215 including taxes and fees. Not bad. I’m leaving in the morning on June 16 and coming back in the evening on June 23. I plan to bring my laptop and work during the day on my thesis and for WGU, since Nicole will still be working. I might also check out English programs at UCLA and UC Irvine while I’m out there– not that I have a chance of getting into either of their doctoral programs.

Anyway, California, here I come!

I did get my hair cut today. It’s cute, I think. I’ll post pics tomorrow.