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Sorry to go radio silent but this week became a bit nutty. John's visit was fun, but exhausting, particularly Saturday. We all headed down to the Tech museum in SJ for the big Star Trek exhibit and all I can say is, if you're a local, go! Seriously it was delightfully geek-tastic. The combination of real science, sets/props/costumes, series timelines and more left me in fangirl heaven. I'll admit my biases run towards the original series and DS9 (still my favorite of all the shows), but there was a little something from each of the series to interest me. We did the "musts", like the action shot on the bridge of the original Enterprise (and got an ovation for it, I might add) and the holographic shot on the NG transporter pads and just generally had a grand time. I spent a lot of it peering closely at each of the costumes and reverse-engineering them. tersa and aelfsciene agreed with me that we must do some Bajoran costumes. tersa and I were thinking Vedeks and Aelf was tending towards a Major Kira costume.

After that we got together for pizza, snacks and Red Dwarf: Back to Earth. I thought it was cute, though nowhere near what the show used to be in its heyday. I also really wished I'd watched "Blade Runner" recently as I think it would've been even funnier to me if I had. We also watched "Skyhigh", basically a live action anime flick about beautiful young Japanese women being murdered, magic spells, crazy scientists, coma victims in glass bubbles and really kick ass Shinto priestesses.

Let's see, what else. Dance practice on Monday went well and M- and I are deep into reworking the drum solo we're hoping to pair with "Ringa, Ringa". We're hoping to have it ready by the next big show, Rakkasah. It's going to take some serious work, though.

Tuesday I actually got some tidying and laundry done, then Wednesday ran up to the city to meet with my old pal Dana and his wife Anne Marie for dinner in Chinatown. I haven't seen them since I moved out here 9 years ago so it was delightful to spend a little time catching up. They invited their friend Patrick along and we all merrily geeked for most of the evening. Seriously, I haven't talked Dr. Who, Torchwood and hockey to that degree in quite some time and we could've kept going all night if I hadn't had to BART back then drive home to get up for work in the morning. I hope they enjoyed the rest of their visit, I know Dana had some serious touristy plans for Thursday so I'm looking forward to hearing all about that.

Tonight I finally got back to Bollywood class and Vikashni wanted a full updated on why I'd missed a couple of classes. I filled her in and we chatted for a while before class started. There were only 3 of us tonight but it gave us a chance to really focus on the steps and get a good workout. It felt good to move again, and to push myself a little.

And after getting home I let Lola out to test the waters between her and Pye. Let's just say I managed to break them up before blood was shed, but only barely. When I introduced Pye and Kage, he at least had the good sense to acknowledge that she was the boss and back down. Lola is not willing to take any shit from Pye and he seems quite prepared to kill her. Ah well...it was worth a try I suppose. I'm seriously debating whether to lock her away in the bathroom again tonight. Last night I didn't and from 2 a.m. on she was whining and jumping on the bed. She did lay down for a bit, which was nice, but it didn't last nearly long enough. Having said that I think I'm going to call it a night and see if I can catch up on a little sleep. It's going to be a long day tomorrow.