The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Coriolanus is playing all May at Sidney Hartman Hall. Who would be interested in a Friday or Saturday show sometime in the next few weeks? I'm also interested in seeing Wallenstein if there's time/money to see it too.

Also, my cousin is in town this weekend, and we're supposed to meet up for dinner Friday -- any suggestions for a good but not too expensive place to go? He's renting a car, so we're not tied to Metro, but he's also staying at a hotel in Alexandria, so I'd prefer not to have him driving all over being as he's from out of town and DC's street layout is confusing at the best of times.

Summary: Squaring up is hard to do - moreso outside of the species. Gabriel wants to get married, properly married, with two wives and a husband all properly aligned. And all he needs to do is get Sam and Jess to let him, a sub-adult blue, into their relationship, and then find a suitable red-moiety female angel who'll agree to the arrangement. Simple, right?
Wordcount: 25,140
Notes: Thanks to hannah for lots of patience and excellent beta'ing, and to kdheart for a gorgeous cover image.

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I've got an account on Growstuff now, which is kind of like Ravelry for gardeners, or at least hopes to be. Skud is behind it, so it will be interesting to see where it goes.

Let me know if you've joined too!

The Terminator is showing at the AFI in Silver Spring this Friday at 7pm.

Meet up at the theater at 6:30pm -- just a few blocks from Silver Spring Metro. Dinner after the movie for those interested.

7464 words total yesterday morning

8885 words total last night

11395 words total tonight

I might just get this finished by the deadline!

I'm working on my Big Bang, and my brain suddenly wants to write the hob story all of the sudden. I don't really have time to go off on a tangent right now. I'm trying to get a story finished! No matter how much fun it would be to let Gabriel be really whimsical (because of fairies) and Castiel to be a complete spacetoaster.

I think the happy-ish ending of the latest episode -- Dean and Sam have the library, no one on their side died horribly and tragically, so that's a happy ending for SPN -- is making my brain want to go to the really goofy AU place, instead of the serious domestic drama of the story I have been working on. aaaaaaa!

So the other week I was listening to the radio, and up came a story about a new theory about how homing pigeons may use 'sound maps' to navigate. This is going right into the Big Bang -- I'd already thought the angels use infrasound to communicate over long distances, but the idea that they use the sounds created by seismic energy from deflected deep ocean sounds to orientate themselves is just too fun to resist.

Yeah, I'm such a nerd.

Otoh, this explains how angels communicate, and it will also explain how the traditionalist/isolationist communities of angels hide themselves. They simply sing at wavelengths that don't travel as far as other angels, so they've limited the distance their communications travels. Of course, the research centers probably have listening stations in those areas specifically to pick up the infrasound, but it probably takes the researchers a lot of time to go through and translate the songs, even with the help of the friendly angels, so they're behind on what's going on in the isolationist communities.

Also, I'll have to remember this because it might eventually be a neat thing to put in an original SF story...

As some of you know, my 40th birthday is next Saturday. The plan has always been to dress up and go to Poste for the occasion.

So now I'd like to gather names so I can get reservations -- I'm hoping for 1 or 2pm, but it will depend on what's available. Let me know in the next day or two if you'll be able to come. I'll post/email more details when the reservations are set.

I'm looking to getting a group to see The Hobbit at the midnight showing at the Majestic in Silver Spring this Thursday with meeting for dinner beforehand.

Anyone interested? There's lots of places to meet and eat in downtown Silver Spring, and given how well The Avengers premerie worked this summer, I doubt there will be any problems with tickets.

Anyone interested in seeing The Hobbit at the midnight showing at the Majestic in Silver Spring this coming Thursday?

I'm planning on seeing it normal viewing, but if enough people want to see it 3D Imax, that's also an option.