Chicklet and I were lotteried out of Avenue Q, so we went to see Fiddler On The Roof (starring Harvey Fierstein). Mr Fierstein was pretty good, though I feel that whoever played Tevye when I saw the musical as a teen was better. John Cariani, playing the nervous tailor who marries the first daughter, stole the show as he had the audience doubling over with laughter at almost every appearance. (Fiddler also played a mid-sized role in tonight's Gilmore Girls...you may ask how I know this...I'll tell you: I don't know.)
Saturday morning we went to B'nai Jeshurun, which is a mix between Conservative and Reconstructionist. (Ah, to be a Jew in New York, when a synagogue without a denomination can get hundreds at a Saturday morning service...) But, being young newcomers, a higher-up spotted us in the crowd and we were asked to do the second aliyah! (Clearly they weren't following strict tradition as the second aliyah should be given to Levites, of which neither Chicklet nor I are.)
Took the train home Saturday afternoon. Somehow I missed the Gates on this New York trip--but, really, it's just art, right? Saturday night was a Deaniac get-together, celebrating Barson's visit to DC. We had dinner at the Chi-Cha lounge on U St, and then walked over to Adams Morgan for Cuban dancing.
Sunday, my roommate Riki introduced me to French and Saunders (yep, the woman from AbFab) and their hilarious parodies of Episode I and FotR. Then I celebrated Matt Ching's birthday at a sports bar in Mount Pleasant where we watched Duke manhandle Wake Forest.
Left the game just before it ended to move on to Rain's slumber party. I joined an already-in-progress game of Fluxx, got pretty damn lucky, and won. Then, we played Taboo, which while not as funny as drunken WWW taboo, had it's riotous moments. (I set a personal best of scoring 10 points in 60 seconds one round.) I then consulted Jenny on her Risk playing--I would have played myself but I (unlike most of the partiers) had work on Monday. Thus, I had to skip out before the slumbering (I'll have to read some blogs to find out what happened.)
There were many competitors, but this entry's award for Most Poorly Constructed Sentence goes to:
Clearly they weren't following strict tradition as the second aliyah should be given to Levites, of which neither Chicklet nor I are.
Wtf...?
It was an honor just to be nominated :)