It may be the most wonderful time of year, but it’s also the busiest. Some of our remaining goings-on this month:
Thom and I are seeing A Year with Frog and Toad at Round House Theatre in Bethesda tonight. It’s a feel-good musical aimed mostly at children, but I’ve read such good things about it (and the cast includes some of the Urinetown folks we loved so much) that we decided to check it out. Also there are a bunch of movies out or soon-to-be-out that we keep saying we’ll see, so maybe we’ll get to one or two in the coming days.
Monday is my company’s Christmas party, renamed a couple of years ago to Festivus, complete with non-holiday food, feats of strength, airing of grievances, and a Festivus pole. Good times, seriously.
The last week of the year will be one of whirlwind travel for me. Next Friday I head out to California for about a week. For the first few days I’ll be in the Bay Area visiting my parents (and though they never get a white Christmas, we’ll at least be seeing one on stage). For the latter part of the trip I’ll then fly to southern California to see Rajani; two things on our agenda are visiting the Huntington library and gardens in San Marino, and later that night watching The Boyfriend (the production directed by Julie Andrews) at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Lastly, after I get back to D.C. at the end of the week, Thom and I will be ringing in the new year with Sheldon and Gretchyn.
2006 will be here before we know it!