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After watching Wicked last Wednesday with Wayne Young, I realized that I'd been missing out on so much by not watching more musicals in this city.

I love showtunes. There's just something magical about the way people sing and dance and tell stories. I love the way songs foreshadow each other and are reprised. I love the structure of the songs, building to a crescendo or thrilling me with their depths.

And watching the musical was so much better than just listening to the music on Internet radio! Now, listening to the music, I can see the production in my mind's eye. I get goosebumps remembering Elphaba's songs "Defying Gravity" and "No Good Deed".

I can't wait for the next musical. Maybe I'll pick up an appreciation for opera along the way...

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You gotta love this life. Friday night at a cafe, hot chocolate with my best friend, plenty of good books to read. I just finished breezing through Information Anxiety 2. And I've just stumbled across "What Should I Do With My Life?", by Po Bronson.

All we need now is a comfy couch...

Life is good.

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I've figured out a terrific way to read IBM blogs. They're automatically prioritized, too. I read it in Emacs, of course, and I have a quick way to comment on things while I'm offline. The only thing that could make it better would be to autopost comments...

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No one in Web 2.0 can spell. But Wesabe looks interesting. It's a Web 2.0 budget tracking thing with tips. It rocks. Tagging is an interesting idea.

I should also put getrichslowly on my more-frequently-read blog list...

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There are few things in life that are better than finding out that one of your favorite cafes has live music on the night that you feel you've accomplished enough work to just kick back, relax, read a book, and enjoy life.

Yes, life is good. Life is very good.

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