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In a rather last-minute display of civic involvement and an earnest desire to get some “cultcha” for once on a Saturday night, Amy, Snookums, and I headed into the city for tonight’s big free Sydney Festival event: Symphony in the Domain. Unfortunately 20,000 other people had gotten there before us, so we were sitting way, way off behind a tree in probably the only acoustically-poor section of the park. It was still fun though. We nibbled and munched our way through an assortment of healthy snacks and even knocked back a couple glasses of wine. (Ooh, contraband!) Given that the theme was Gershwin and the conductor knew how sophisticated Sydney summer concertgoers are (i.e. not very), he began with the obvious but still impressive “Rhapsody in Blue.” They even trotted out singers for a few numbers including one of my favorites, Caroline O’Connor. It was a beautiful night and most people seemed content to just treat it as a big communal picnic with some lovely background music, which suited us just fine. Next year we’ll know to get there earlier!

Steve has posted the Martini Club‘s first review from our night at Kuleto’s in Newtown a few weeks ago. My comments regarding the non-gin-based cocktails are in the comments.

Friday Accomplishments

1. I resisted the urge to sleep in and instead met Albie at the university squash courts for an hour-long workout. Good way to start the day.
2. The Snook and I signed paperwork at the bank to create our first official joint bank account together, which we got so that we can open a savings maximiser and start socking away cash to buy a house. (And so that I can steal all his money.)
3. Deposited my last two checks from Google, which I forgot I had. Cashing foreign checks is such a hassle.
4. Spent half the Google money on a 1GB iPod Shuffle. 🙂
5. Cashed in my “buy-ten-massages-and-get-one-free” card.
6. Got six months’ worth of new contact lenses.
7. Hit the grocery store and the fish monger to pick up supplies for my first ever paella tonight. (Needless to say, this will be the first time I’ve ever cooked seafood in my life.)

And what did you do?

I’m being all schmoopy over at Tara D’s site.

Scandal! Titsiana the THIEF was just in the shop! It was a tense fifteen minutes as the staff tailed her around the knitting department while the rest of us watched on the cameras in the office. She didn’t steal anything this time, but she did put some stuff on hold and we think she’s going to try to “return” the kit she stole and try to exchange it for other stuff. She was also behaving very oddly with her credit card – asking us what her limit was, etc – so we rang AmEx to alert them that it might have been stolen. It’s like Dragnet in here!

Also from the BBC… FOX has cancelled another of our favorite shows. Malcolm in the Middle will finish this year after seven seasons. (I’m praying for a Dewey spin-off.) More intriguing is the quote in that article from some Fox boofhead stating that they’re considering offers from two other networks to pick up Arrested Development. *crosses fingers*

It looks like Prince Caspian is going to be the next Narnia movie, and all four kids are returning. I’m really happy about that; it’s actually one of my favorite books in the whole series. I wonder how they’ll do the dryad bits though, since they sorta took them out of the first movie. (Or rather, they turned them into lame “blowing leaves.”) I want to see a full-on bacchanalian dirt feast at the end!

I thought I was gonna rock this Winnie the Pooh quiz, but then it turned out to be all about the history and economics of it so I sucked. I got, like, four out of ten.

The stitches on my wisdom teeth came out last night. (I had one in each “hole.”) I was brushing my teeth and when I spat, out came a little piece of string with a clearly-identifiable knot at one end. The gross part is that I remember them being black when he put them in, but after two weeks being digested in my mouth they’d turned white. I told you it was gross!

Not that I want to give the bastards any money, but Sony have at last joined the Australian iTunes Music Store. I wonder why they caved.