I'd gotten into a pattern of posting at week's end, which was handy, but then we traveled the weekend of the 13th/14th, and this weekend I was just kind of blue. So what the hell, I'll hop back on here!
Read: Broadway Nights--light, funny, Acito-esque.
Started reading The God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza's most recent play, but couldn't get much traction. Two couples meet to have a civil conversation over the son of one couple's having beaten up the son of the other couple's. Slowly, their parental and class anxieties dribble forth and yada yada yada. Probably great with the kind of killer cast that did it on Broadway, but tiresome reading--or maybe I need to read the Broadway translation (reset from Paris to Brooklyn) instead of the London one (London). It's potentially kind of Virgina Woolf meets Ayckbourn, which means it could well be my cup of tea, but not just at the moment.
Finished Mansfield Park with its couple of truly unexpected jaw-droppers toward the end. Could it be my favorite Austen? (Could it?) I'm obsessed with it to the edge of writing fan fiction. I may get to sit in on a friend's class next month when they talk about it!
Made only a little headway in Omnivore's Dilemma. It's very good, I've just had too many other books going to make much progress.
Ten days ago or so, saw A Single Man. A bit too much for the state I've been in, but good. Very artsy, very well acted, nothing on the nose.
Saw a rehearsal of a guest artist's show at my school. Very promising, with lots of time still to refine.
Re-read for work: Miss Julie, Spring's Awakening, Votes for Women, something else?
Watched a lot of Olympics this weekend. Oh, and we went downtown and saw a Harlem Globetrotters game.
"What fools we were, poised there above our books for a silence that would never come."
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