Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Breakfast at home: toasted bagel and cream cheese, 12 ounces of TJ's garden patch juice, hot gingerbread spice tisane. Rode Muni to work. Joel gave me a loaf of banana bread with an orange plastic knife wrapped in cellophane and tied with orange ribbon—very sweet. Chatted briefly with Michael W. Office holiday lunch at Kuleto's with Cindy, Shirin, Sammie, Lisa, Rodney, and Lucia. Shopped a bit. Rode Muni to the doctor's office. UCSF shuttle from Mount Zion to Parnassus. Worked more. Rode Muni to Powell Street Station, chatting with Roshini E while waiting and riding. Dinner at B: bibb leaf lettuce salad with pomegranate, asian pear, persimmon, and goat cheese; water. Smuin Ballet: The Christmas Ballet: Beyond Ballet at Novellus Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. I had last seen Smuin Ballet on December 24, 2003, and this show was similar in that the more traditional pieces comprised the first half and the more modern pieces comprised the second half. I sat in K 107 which is in the orchestra. K 107 and K 108 are pretty much exactly in the center of the theatre. Fortunately for me the 2 seats directly in front of me were empty. The program: Act I: The Classical Christmas. Magnificat; Zither Carol; Veni, Veni Emmanuel; Hodie Christus Natus Est; Carol of the Bells; Riu Riu Chiu; Resonet in Laudibus; For Unto Us a Child is Born; Patapan/God Rest Ye; The Goucestershire Wassail; Licht bensh'n "Candle Blessing"; Dobra Notsch "Sleep Well"; Sleigh Ride; La Virgen Lava Pañales; Jauchzet Frohlocket. Intermission. Act II: The Cool Christmas. Overture; Christmas in New Orleans; Drummer Boy; Blue Christmas; Santa Baby; Winter Weather; Pretty Paper; La Calandria; Sugar Rum Cherry; Droopy Little Christmas Tree; Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Christmas Island; Bells of Dublin; Baby It's Cold Outside; Oh, Holy Night; Born in a Manger; Children Go Where I Send Thee; White Christmas. Rode Muni home. Late meal to go from King of Thai Noodle: shrimp pad thai, hot water. Installed StartupSound 1.1b3, began decrypting my startup volume so that I can update PGP Desktop then upgrade to Lion then reencrypt.