No Iron Man this weekend

My parents have come and gone, taking my brother back to our hometown with them. It was a nice visit, culminating in a lovely dinner at Bricco's, one of the best restaurants in the North End. I am not as a rule a pasta eater, but the pasta at this place was authentic, homemade, and delicious, so even I couldn't resist. It's so good that Jared and I would like to buy some of the homemade pasta from the specialty store owned by the restauranteur and make it at home.

The new Iron Man movie is out now. We were going to go see it with a group yesterday, but I didn't feel well (big surprise there) and Jared wasn't done with the takehome final he had to finish for today, so we didn't make it. I still want to see it; I heard it was pretty good. Other than Dark Knight, I thought the first Iron Man was one of the best comic book movies to come out in forever, so I have high hopes for the sequel.

As a side note, I dislike when an actor plays more than one major superhero in the movie versions. I just heard that Chris Evans, the guy who played the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four movies, is up for the role of Captain America. That irritates me, especially when they're from the same comic universe. It's like they're not distinct entities. It was bad enough hearing that Ryan Reynolds was Deadpool and might be (will be?) the Green Lantern, but at least one is Marvel and one is DC. Captain America and the Fantastic Four are both Marvel. Not that it's particularly necessary, but now they can never appear together, and now they're too much the same person. I don't like that. I'm not a huge fan of either title, but still, it gets on my nerves.

Show to audition for!

I have a show to audition for this summer! I will be trying out for a local production of Love's Labor's Lost next week, directed by the awesome Shelby Bleweiss. My life feels a lot less complete when I don't have a piece of theater to do and the fact that it's a Shakespeare makes it even better, so this is a very good thing for me. I don't know much about this particular play, so I am doing some research; it seems a bit atypical of Shakespeare. I shall have to prepare a decent monologue and cross my fingers.

Been reading a lot of Sherlock Holmes lately, mostly the ones I'm less intimately familiar with. I've read every novel and story at least once, but some many, many more times than others and some when only when I was quite young, so I'm going back to the ones I haven't already read to death. :-) I've always loved the character, and part of me wishes that I had some facility with observing things and being able to draw such accurate conclusions from them the way Holmes does. I'm not very good at solving the mysteries as I read-- I've only ever managed to solve a few of them ever --but I like trying. I've never been excessively bothered by mysteries that don't give the reader enough of the clues to figure it out, but in many Sherlock Holmes stories it is theoretically possible, so I enjoy trying to crack them myself.

Tonight I will make myself meatloaf, one of my favorite comfort foods. Normally I'm very much not a comfort eater-- more like a comfort not-eater --but tonight I want something nice and heavy. It also yields lots of leftovers that I can eat on sandwiches for a couple of days after. I'm usually not a big fan of kitchen-sink-type dishes, but this way to make it that I learned from my mother has always been a standby meal for me.