Señorita Ruth

Weekend Plans

Well, it’s been over a year since I blogged last. I have to say, what a year it’s been! I’ve left grad school for the excite­ment of the real world, and have found a job that keeps me on my toes from day to day. How­ever, it’s time to once again pick up the joys of writ­ing about the sights and sounds of Albu­querque and its sur­round­ing area dur­ing the sum­mer. This is my favorite sea­son. The smell of fresh cut grass dur­ing the day, bar­be­cue at dusk and the crick­ets after dark infuse me with a sense of unbounded enthu­si­asm as I remem­ber per­fect, lazy days spent under trees at the park, hid­ing out in the dark shade of home dur­ing the noon­time, and the excite­ment of after-dark adven­tures with my friends.

Per­haps those times are truly past for yours truly, but their echoes always inspire me to branch out dur­ing the sum­mer, try new things and check out new places to hang out, learn, eat or shop. So, I will be focus­ing on my out­ings over the sum­mer, those both mun­dane and excit­ing, local and out of town. Do you have any sug­ges­tions? What’s your favorite place to be dur­ing the summer? 

To kick things off, I’m going to bone up on my early rock his­tory by check­ing out the show­ing of 200 Motels, co-directed by Frank Zappa, at The Guild this week­end. The mid­night show­ings will occur May 8 & 9, Fri­day and Sat­ur­day (or Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, if you choose to be pedan­tic about it). I’m going to hook my arm through that of my best rock ‘n roll buddy and we’re going to go expand our minds. I’ve never seen any Zappa movies, so this should be an insight­ful look into the estab­lish­ment of rock into main­stream pop­u­lar Amer­i­can culture.

I’m also look­ing for­ward to a dif­fer­ent event this week­end. At Book­works, located at 4022 Rio Grande, on Sun­day, May 10^th at 11:00, there will be a dis­cus­sion by Jan MacK­ell, who will be pre­sent­ing her research on “Red Light Women of the Rocky Moun­tains.” While this may not be fare for all moth­ers, con­sider invit­ing yours if she’s a free spirit. If she’s not, don’t worry. I’ll be post­ing some mom-friendly ideas for this upcom­ing Moth­ers’ Day.

What do you like to do dur­ing the sum­mer? Do you already have vaca­tion plans? What about the lit­tle ones– do they go to sum­mer camp, or the Parks and Recre­ation pro­grams avail­able around the city? Tell me all about it!

Oh! I almost for­got to mention…these ideas for week­end plans came to me via the Alibi weekly newslet­ter email. I’ve found lots of inter­est­ing stuff in those, includ­ing the chances to win some free tick­ets and other types of prizes. You should def­i­nitely sign up!