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My top cities ("cities" used just a little loosely):

Providence, Rhode Island
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Portland, Oregon
New Haven, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut
Boston, Massachusetts
Baltimore, Maryland
Eugene, Oregon
Salem, Oregon
Little Rock, Arkansas
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Worcester, Massachusetts
Corvallis, Oregon
Medford, Oregon
Las Vegas, Nevada
Washington, D.C.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Reno, Nevada
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Danbury, Connecticut
Sacramento, California
Carson City, Nevada
Oakland, California
New Orleans, Louisiana

I'm not sure I like the fact that Albuquerque is second on the list so much. I want to get out of here, damn it! Apparently, though, it has the most PhDs per capita than any other US city. Who knew?

Tempestuosity

I meant to write yesterday about what I actually did yesterday. Well, it would have been technically today, as I got back pretty late and wouldn't have written until after midnight about it. But anyway...

I went to see The Tempest down in Corrales. The show is part of the Shakespeare Festival, another part of which is the Shakespeare Cabaret, which I went to last week. So Tempest was performed outside, in the Albuquerque area, in July. That is just asking for inclement weather. It has cancelled/halted the show before, and it struck again this weekend. Apparently on Friday they didn't get to do the second act because it was raining too hard. (Meanwhile I was at the Mariachi Spectacular in the pouring rain.) Yesterday it did start raining again, about fifteen minutes after they started. It started sprinkling when the director (I presume) went onstage for preliminary remarks. They did the first scene with the drowning of the sailors, and got into the first line of the next scene with Prospero and Miranda when it rained so hard the stage manager called a hold. There was a ten minute hold, during which the rain subsided, then the show started again a little while later. Someone sitting behind me remarked that "they really should start over from the beginning." Yeah, you think that huge skirt is exactly easy to set up? I kind of doubt that. In general, it's not really a beginning that can be done over again. Ariel goes onstage before the preshow music stops. And from there everything starts. So they started with the beginning of the second scene. The break seemed rather appropriate to me. Stage storm, real storm, what happens after the storm in the show. The play was so good. Not just the play itself (it was Shakespeare!) but the way it was performed. Very entertaining, to say the least.

Being outside, of course there were bugs around. One of them a large cicada, or something like that. It was kind of noticeable when it landed on the stage. There were also smaller insects, at least three, possibly four, bit me. Mosquitos, probably, because they itch like crazy.

I meant to go out today. There was another mariachi thing at the fairgrounds, this one with dancers, but I ended up not going. Laziness prevailed. I probably would have gone if plans to meet Bev at the Frontier around noon had actually happened, but that fell through. I should have gone out though. I probably wouldn't have started feeling so crappy. Or maybe I'd have started thinking that I've missed so many opportunities anyway.