HELP!

No, I'm not in trouble.  But today at 12:15 I attended a screening of the Beatle's 1965 movie HELP!   Apparently there was a Beatle's class that met this week.   And I was wondering how I could have possibly missed signing up for that one.   Who WOULDN'T take that class?   But then I checked the catalogue and it met from 9 - 10:30 AM - smack in the middle of my choir obligation.   Oh well.

But it was so great seeing it in the theater with an audience.  I  might have thought it was lame if I was sitting at home on my couch watching it on Netflix. . . . .if I had a home. . . . if I had a couch.  

But in the theater it was a wonderful combination of The Three (make that Four) Stooges meet Monty Python.  And then in the middle of a scene they would break into a song.  And oh, that's where it got powerful.   The whole movie was like a roller coaster. .  . laughing hysterically one minute, and then choking down tears the next as we saw them young and happy.  Before John got Ono-ized and serious (however Imagine came out of that period so it wasn't all bad).  And you're watching them sing, and you know how the story ends for two of them.  It was really something.  Great discussion afterwards.   Another opportunity to go back in time. . . .like riding my bike home from choir makes me feel 8 years old again.   Today at 12:15, I was in 9th grade and stifling the urge to scream every time Paul came on the screen!

The final whole foods class met today and we divided into 4 groups and made salads using grains.   One group used couscous, and the other three, including ours, had signed up for quinoa.  So our group, to be amenable, offered today to switch to farro. . .which is listed on the package as "an ancient grain."  I have had no experience with farro.  But we just threw a bunch of stuff in, and boy did it turn out great.  If I do say so myself, the class liked our salad best.  And I'm a new farro devotee.  And it was great fun chopping and cooking and creating with a group.   Kind of like having neighbors!

I'm heading off to my friend Nancy Nelson's apartment (not to be confused with the Nancy Nelson who bought my house) for dinner and then we'll go see Straight No Chaser, a well-known a capella group.  I put off Wegmans and sushi for lunch until tomorrow.  I was too busy today.   HELP!!!!