A Few More LBJs:
*Just saw a wonderfully anarchic version of The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) in our school's black box theater. One of the great things about teaching is getting to see lots and lots of plays enacted by the young & energetic who don't know their limitations, and who therefore frequently exceed them.

*My son brought a Nintendo Gamecube into our house, and it is evil, eeeeeeeevil I tell you. My thumb is sore and all I have to show for it is a score of slightly over 13,000 on the Simpsons' Road Rage game he bought.

*It's May, and the weather has finally made up its mind. It flirted directly with summer for a while, with highs topping 90, and then panicked and shifted back to winter, giving us a frost at the end of April. Now it's decided to give fall and winter a miss and go straight into spring. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in a Terry Gilliam animation.

*I doubt they're going to notice, and I doubt most of you who don't already know it will care, but this weekend our friends John and Flane are getting married? Aren't they an adorable couple? Wave to the nice people, John and Flane! We'll be heading up their way for the weekend, so my journal will be on a short hiatus. (Note that I didn't say "for retooling," which would indicate that I wasn't coming back. I'll be back, just not until Kelly and I have seen our Maid of Honor safely in the bonds of her own holy wedlock.)

*An online acquaintance just told me a story, apparently an old Jewish folk tale, about two people who meet after they've died. One of them is wandering around, manic, upset, frustrated, and bored out of his mind because there's nothing to do. The other is sitting happily, studying, thinking and dreaming. They're in the same place, but the latter guy is in Heaven and the former is in Hell.

Which, I noted, is a perfect description of Earth.

8:03 PM

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A Few More LBJs:
*Just saw a wonderfully anarchic version of The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) in our school's black box theater. One of the great things about teaching is getting to see lots and lots of plays enacted by the young & energetic who don't know their limitations, and who therefore frequently exceed them.

*My son brought a Nintendo Gamecube into our house, and it is evil, eeeeeeeevil I tell you. My thumb is sore and all I have to show for it is a score of slightly over 13,000 on the Simpsons' Road Rage game he bought.

*It's May, and the weather has finally made up its mind. It flirted directly with summer for a while, with highs topping 90, and then panicked and shifted back to winter, giving us a frost at the end of April. Now it's decided to give fall and winter a miss and go straight into spring. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in a Terry Gilliam animation.

*I doubt they're going to notice, and I doubt most of you who don't already know it will care, but this weekend our friends John and Flane are getting married? Aren't they an adorable couple? Wave to the nice people, John and Flane! We'll be heading up their way for the weekend, so my journal will be on a short hiatus. (Note that I didn't say "for retooling," which would indicate that I wasn't coming back. I'll be back, just not until Kelly and I have seen our Maid of Honor safely in the bonds of her own holy wedlock.)

*An online acquaintance just told me a story, apparently an old Jewish folk tale, about two people who meet after they've died. One of them is wandering around, manic, upset, frustrated, and bored out of his mind because there's nothing to do. The other is sitting happily, studying, thinking and dreaming. They're in the same place, but the latter guy is in Heaven and the former is in Hell.

Which, I noted, is a perfect description of Earth.


7:58 PM

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