Saturday morning odds and ends

For those of you celebrating Samhain in its various forms, blessed be. Hoping to get in some ritual time myself today.

Might have helped if I hadn't slept for nearly 10 solid hours last night. I NEVER do this so apparently my sense that I'm very rundown is pretty accurate. I'm amazingly groggy this morning. Atlanta is looming so it looks like I'll have to skip a few events this weekend to make sure I stay healthy. Bleah. At any rate, there are tons of fun things going on right in the Cities so I thought I'd mention a few in case others were interested.

• Cromulent Shakespeare Company's production of Pratchett's The Wyrd Sisters closes today - last show 2PM. We saw it last Monday. It's exuberant and quite fun - we particularly liked Granny Weatherwax and the King.
• Barebones Productions Puppet Theater's Annual Halloween Extravaganza - This looks like it'll be a great show - I'm still hoping to make it to this one tonight. We thoroughly enjoyed the last one of these we went attended.
• Theater Unbound is debuting their new production, "Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play," tomorrow night at the Lowry Lab in downtown St. Paul. Theater Unbound is a terrific little women's theater - we've enjoyed all of their shows that we've been to over the years and are very much looking forward to this one. And in Spring, 2010, they're doing a version of "Meda" as Noh.
• The Hennepin History Museum is hosting an exhibit called "Icons for the Bereaved: Traditions and Artifacts of Mourning." Memento mori and hair ornaments, here we come. :-)

Off to go get organized for Atlanta. And maybe straighten up the place a bit, along with other catch-up stuff.