Cthulhia, art, and a maize maze
Whew, a fun yet exhausting weekend! I went up to Boston to hang with cthulhia, who I don’t see often enough. I met up with her and a friend whose LJ name I don’t know (there’s an application for RFID tags, or maybe Bluetooth) at one of the centers of South End Artists’ Open Studios, which had a high cool-stuff proportion.

The back to Cthulhia’s place, where I met the upstairs neighbors and saw Cthulhia in her drinking hat. Next stop for the night was going to be a superhero-themed party, with very lax costuming rules. Cthules wore the viking helmet, and I a pair of rabbit ears, and we figured if anyone gave us trouble we could launch into a rendition of “What’s Opera Doc?”, but it didn’t come up.

Sunday we joined dougo’s expedition to the Davis Mega Maze. (That idea I had, about using a Sidekick and the Google satellite maps to get maze plans from above? Wouldn’t work; it’s too faint, and not this year’s maze.) I’d never been in a corn maze before, much less one of this scale, but Cthules navigated like a pro, even compensating for us accidentally winding up at the exit after having only gone through a small fraction of the maze, thanks to some idiot moving one of the mobile barriers that allow the layout to be altered from day to day. We walked pretty much non-stop at a good pace for about two hours, probably five or six miles all told, more exercise than I’ve had in quite a while.

I took the Fung Wah buses both ways, and had really good trips. Fung Wah seems to be prospering enough to have upgraded their fleet. I took on-the-half-hour departures both ways, and got full-sized buses (not the mini-buses I’d gotten a couple of years earlier), and both times the buses were about half full so I got a pair of seats to myself to stretch out in. No movie either, so I could nap.