PERSONAL NEWS
#207
Tuesday, April 3rd, I attended and
participated in the BFP PF committee meeting.
Thursday, April 5th, I had an appt with Dr Tan
in late afternoon, and afterwards headed to the BFP board member meeting.
Early on Friday, April 6th, I headed upstate
NY for the Easter weekend with my parents, brother and sister-in-law. Rented a car [VW Jetta] from Enterprise in
Albany for the weekend and had my hair done at salon. I stopped by Oakwood Cemetery, near Troy NY,
on Saturday for some photo ops, as the weather was really quite nice.
Week of April 9th I am working the 11am to 8pm
shift at work due to final crunch of “tax season”. The nice thing about all this is that I get
to sleep late in the morning. Sweet!
Thursday, April 12th, I participated in the
BFP A&C committee conference call, which was very productive. We’re down to the wire and final crunch
before the 8th Annual PF happens on the 28th.
Friday, April 13th, I stopped by costume shop to
see Wendy at lunch time to pay for the Gibson Girl style costume she is
creating for me. It’ll have the
Hufflepuff colors, theme and will be used for HP cosplay and other future
events. She also took my measurements
for the vest/skirt ensemble. So
exciting! Later on I had an appt with my
chiropractor for adjustments.
Saturday, April 14th, was a productive day
with many chores/errands accomplished, plus attending the “Know Drones Forum”
in Ft Greene section of Brooklyn. Also
went around to different businesses in my hood to distribute PF posters and palm
cards. That evening I rented on DVD the
film “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” with Gary Oldman. It was very good.
On Sunday morning, April 15th, I started
taking a Hatha yoga session in my neighborhood and plan on doing these sessions
every weekend. I also did more
distribution of “Peace Fair” fliers, palm cards and posters. In the afternoon, I had an appt with Dr Tan,
plus stopped by Gothic Renaissance store to try out corsets for an HP ensemble,
and then wrapped up the early evening with watching the film HUGO on DVD.
Tuesday evening, April 17th, I attended and
participated in the BFP PF committee meeting.
Wednesday evening, April 18th, I volunteered
at the WCW national office to assist with computer work and abit of organizing
supplies for a rally on April 19th.
Thursday evening, April 19th, I attended the
monthly “NYC Friends of Tolkien” at our usual diner in midtown Manhattan. Main topic of discuss was season 1 and 2 of
the HBO series GofT, plus the books, as well as other programs on cable TV.
On Saturday morning, April 21st, my cleaning
lady came by to take care of the apt. In
the afternoon, I joined my friend Jackie in taking a 3-hour walking tour of
Brooklyn Heights, followed by a late lunch on Montague Street.
On Sunday morning, April 22nd, I participated
in my second Hatha yoga session in my hood, and in the afternoon I had an appt
with Dr Tan. Finally, the much needed
rain showed up, and it’ll wash away that pollen that bothers many of us with
allergies.
Wednesday evening, April 25th, I attended and
participated in the BFP PF committee meeting for final flesh out of PF details.
Friday morning, April 27th, I had two teeth
extracted by an oral surgeon specialist.
I took off the day from work for this procedure and recovery.
Saturday, April 28th, was the BFP 8th
Annual PF at Brooklyn College. I arrived
at Brooklyn College Student Center by car service at 9am. Busy day of setting up, organizing,
monitoring, listening to our two feature speakers [ie: Scahill and Chappell],
cleaning up and then a group of us took Capt Paul Chappell out to dinner. I mostly worked in the Club Room assisting
with setting up and distribution of assorted refreshment for BFP members and PF
attendees. It was a great day, and
roughly 400+ attended the event. My day
ended around 10pm, after being driven home by Oliver and Charlotte.
Sunday, April 29th, I had an appt with Dr Tan,
and afterwards stopped by the bookstore to see Sam.
