A near perfect Saturday:
- Waking up to sunshine streaming in the window; no alarm
- Ten mile run along the Hudson River
- Nap (one hour)
- Lunch. An episode of The Office with audio commentary.
- Nap 2 (thirty minutes)
- Doing this and that around the apartment
- Picking up last-minute tickets for Gypsy with Patty LuPone, a must-see according to roommate Clay. I talked Mauricio into coming. (This was easy: "Hey Mauricio, do you want to go to a musical?" "Sure.")
- Lounging around Midtown waiting for the show.
- Light dinner of feta-cheese-on-puff-pastry pie and hot tea
- Gypsy. The show was okay, but Patty LuPone as the lead role, Rose, was outstanding. She carried the show, and the audience knew it as it gave her an immediate standing ovation and round after round of applause which filled the historic City Center theater.
- Sitting two rows behind Rebecca Romijn. (I didn't recognize her at the time without her blue Mystique costume.)
- Quizzing Mauricio on the nuances of the English language. Of the non-native speakers I've encountered, Mauricio has by far the best vocabulary; indeed his command of the language is better than most native speakers I know. I wasn't even able to stump him with the the word recidivism.
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So at what point did you realize that you were behind Rebecca Romijn?
Mauricio told me that we were sitting behind a couple celebrities. He couldn't remember their names, until he went home and searched IMDB.com. When I saw her picture in streetclothes, she did look familiar.
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