I'm going to the Houdini exhibit Tuesday (6/28) after work!!!!  THAT'S TOMORROW!!!!  I'm so excited!!!!  

Yes, I know I'm a dork and probably the only woman in my age group who has any interest in this exhibit.

I figure if I go straight from the train station and don't go home in-between, that I'll actually go, instead of getting home, changing my clothes, sitting my ass down on the couch and changing my mind because it seems like too much trouble and I'd rather lay around (How's that for a run on sentence?).  I've been doing a lot of that lately and I need to get out of my comfortable rut.  Hopefully I can leave work around 2pm since the museum is only open until 5pm and then that way I can spend more than 45 minutes to an hour looking at everything.  I should be able to get to the train station to pick up my car before 3pm and head over..... maybe traffic will be light too!  Yeah right, the 405? Light?  Dream on Robin!!!!   :-)

The exhibit is over at the Skirball center, which I don't think I've ever been to before.  I've been to the Getty, but that was years ago.  Anyway, should be fun.  I've always found Houdini to be very interesting!  Here's a link to the exhibit page, if you're so inclined:

http://www.skirball.org/exhibitions/houdini

Gotham has gotten sick again.  I'm a little worried this time.  He's got this reoccuring immune system cancer thing that usually flares up on his face / chin every six months or so and this time it's only been two months since the last occurrence.  My vet, Dr. McCartney, seemed a little concerned as well.  We're going to keep a close eye on it and see if there is anything different from the other times.  Poor guy, he HATES going in his carrier and traveling.  He howled the entire way to and from the vets office Saturday morning, PLUS for the first time ever, he had an accident in his carrier.  Thank goodness it was only pee!  Still a pain to clean up though.  The shot seems to have worked and swelling has gone down.  The only thing he's doing now is yelling at me like an old lady as he walks around the house.  I swear, every time he looks at me he says something.  It's kinda funny when he does it while he's walking away.  I almost expect him to turn around and say "And another thing....".  Sometimes he even does it when he's laying on the bed near my feet.  He'll be nice and quiet, then I'll put my book (or whatever) down and he'll look up at me and start in.

I was able to read those four issues of the "Sherlock Holmes Year One" comic book (from Dynamite) this weekend.  I was really hoping I would like them, but I didn't (much).  They were okay until the last one  where they made Irene Adler an active love interest.  I doubt Conan Doyle would like that!  I'll have to check on this, but wasn't she only in "A Scandal in Bohemia"?  So anyway, that kinda ruined it for me. They should have brought in a new character for such a purpose, that way they wouldn't have been messing with canon.  I'll give them a few more chances to see if they redeem themselves.  I checked and it seems Scott Beatty received good reviews for his writing on this, so maybe I need to read a few more issues.   I don't have a problem with the plot or story in general, I just object to using Irene Adler like this.  The only other work of his that I've read is "Ruse" and it had the same feel to it.  I guess he knows his genre and is sticking to it!  Anyway, I'm probably just being picky.  "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" was the first book of substance that I got when I was a kid.  My dad gave it to me for my birthday.  I remember laying on my bed next to the open window, hidden behind the small trellis covered in yellow rose bushes, getting lost in those stories.  Ah well...

I've been checking the SDCC website and they have yet to post anything about when the single day passes will go on sale again.  I wish they would have said something last week so I wouldn't have wasted any time this weekend going in and seeing if there were any updates.

I've come to the conclusion that, as I was in college, I'm a terrible student.  I set aside time on Sunday morning to study / read class materials and I did everything I could think of to get myself out of it. 

"Hey, the next lesson doesn't get posted until Wednesday, so you don't have to do it right now". 

Never mind the fact that I still had last Wednesday's materials to go over (and Fridays!).  I finally sat down and did it, but I didn't enjoy it one bit.  Not.  One.  Bit.  While I was studying (and looking for ways to get out of it), it hit me: Why don't people drop by and visit each other any more?  When I was growing-up we had people drop by the house when they were in the neighborhood.  Sure,  you run the risk of the occupants not being home or the house being a mess or surprising them when they look like crap, but it seems like it's worth the risk. At least it was yesterday people!!!!!  Someone dropping by would have been the perfect excuse, er, I mean reason, for me to put off my reading.  Friends used to drop by when I lived in K-Town.  It wasn't an every day occurrence by any means, but it was nice.  Even when I was at my uncle's pad, he had people dropping by all the time.  Maybe the other places were more central or easier to get to?  Maybe people just don't do it anymore.

More later.