Meeting up and being witched

[dr4b]

Whee, today Nick and I went to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, where I had made arrangements to meet up with some LJ people who I'd never met before -- jiggery_pokery, who has been on my friends list for like 3 years? and is super-duper-cool, dezzikitty, his girlfriend, who has never been on my friends list but who is super-duper-cool, amuzulo, who has been on my friends list for all of a week or two, and his friend Stacey, who as it turns out also went to CMU, was class of '97, and we have some friends in common.

So, yeah. We met up and went to some park a few blocks east of Times Square and hung out for a while. It was a really nice day out. We played a card game that Chuck had brought called Hat Trick, which was really pretty spiffy and I liked it, although I think it needed a bidding phase. We also played a few games of Fluxx (which should be a testament to how cool I thought Meg was, because I despise that game). After that we departed to some restaurant (er, Old Devil Moon?) down in the East Village and had dinner, which was very good. Unfortunately at that point Chris and Meg had to depart to thar nor'eastern village o'Boston, and Nick and I wanted to see about seeing a show or something. So everyone went their separate ways after that.

By the way, Chris, I didn't get to properly thank you for buying dinner for everyone, so THANK YOU! Next time I owe you one! (Or at least some ducks or something.)

Anyway, Nick and I didn't succeed in seeing a show tonight, sadly :( We walked all through Times Square, and eventually came back here to look at movie times and get ice cream. And yay, he let me convince him to go see Bewitched with me, and I really enjoyed it! Shirley Maclaine was awesome, I mean, everyone was fairly awesome, but I still kept thinking "Huh, that's supposed to be Meg Ryan up there, I swear."

Yay.

I guess that's the day in a nutshell.

Comments

[eiriene.livejournal.com]

May I suggest, for your show-watching needs, the ever-so-wonderful TKTS booth? You can get discounts of up to 50% off the standard ticket price, and all you have to do is stand in line for an hour or so. Chris and I saw Rent that way in February 2003, and we were literally four rows back from the stage in terrific seats. =) We could see the actual mike wires on the actors!

[dr4b]

The lines at TKTS were too long and they had nothing we wanted to see. (Yes, I know about it.)

[eiriene.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I've had good luck with TKTS both times I used it. Besides Rent, I got to see Copenhagen with my family when it first came out too.

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

I've usually had little to no luck with TKTS either.
What sometimes works if you don't mind paying full price is to go to the actual theater in the afternoon and check for cancellations.

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

The one time I've done TKTS I found that standing in line for an hour is no fun, and all it got us was aforementioned off-broadway show on broadway which was also no fun. My manhattenite theatre-buff friend doesn't bother with them anymore.

[meggitymeg.livejournal.com]

*friends you* :D It really was a lovely day, wasn't it? Even with Fluxx. ;)

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Yay! It was a lovely, lovely day and wonderful to get to meet you at long last. If Meg were to get a job in your neck of the woods then I am sure we would hang out so much more!

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

I am inordinately amused that your icon incorporates 3 of the 4 games I own.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Kind of the reason why I picked those three games for the icon :-)

The question that presents itself to me is what the fourth game is! Is it a modern game in the style of the other three, or something more classic?

[amuzulo.livejournal.com]

Hey, even though I don't get a super-duper-cool mention, it was nice meeting you and I did enjoy hanging out and it was definitely nice to play Hat Trick again. :) Have fun in NYC!