solarbird | heading home (typed yesterday)

Waiting at

lyonesse's house for the taxi to arrive to take us to the airport so that we can finally head home. I'm looking to a couple of days of doing theta approaching nothing. I mean seriously, I need a weekend of lazing about and I think this one is going to be it. W00t!

Went to the Boston Museum of Fine Art yesterday and the day before. The art deco exhibition they have running right now is shriekingly fantastic and if you're in the area you need to go. Go now. Plus, of course, the whole MFA is great fun, except for the inside cafe by the gift shop which kind of blows. Don't go there. But watch the deco exhibition and see the path set in design for the following 60 years. (I had fun pointing out how. E.g., a chair from the 1925 Paris exhibition that I pointed at and said, "See that? Have you seen Star Trek? Do you know Captain Kirk's chair?" and people going, "...oh!" Dillenger's desk from Tron was there, too, in its 1925 inspiration. And so on)

If I had a time machine, one of the places I would go would be the 1925 Paris exhibition. That, and I'd have to visit the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

Last night I visited Vicka's Aikido dojo at MIT again, and I really, really enjoyed it a lot. They have a different approach to early training that I like better; at Ki Society in Seattle - at least, these days - attacks are very much feigned, as if they aren't even supposed to be real. And that's fine and I understand why, it really causes me some problems in that I don't have much to hook muscle memory to, and I think it makes it harder for me to understand the resulting moves. Here, while they're still of course feigned attacks, they're at least supposed to seem kind of real, so you know what to react to when you see it in real life. I prefer that by a lot.

There's a different Aikido dojo in Lake City Way - I think I'll stop by there and see how they go about things. Maybe I'll like them better.

After class, we went out to a local Spanish restaurant which made me very happy, and had desserts that made me very, very happy, so life is good.