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A more interesting day, this one.
Mar. 11th, 2005 12:43 amPerhaps not as productive, but after work, I decided to go out and take in a movie. The Merchant of Venice, with Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino. A very well-done production, except, in my opinion, for the beginning and the end. The beginning sets up a certain strain of interpretation as being potentially dominant, and the end is... not complete. With those two things fixed, it could have been a gem. As it is, it's still worth watching. I had to be enticed by some value-added content, though - one of the premier Shakespeare professors here at the University gave a short lecture and took questions afterward. Those two together made the price of admission (rather cheap for me, as a student) worth the time, plus I got to see quite a few friends around. It was a most enjoyable evening.
And it snowed today. So, perhaps in the morning, if the snow has stopped falling, we'll go grab the shovel and clear off the sidewalks. If it's still falling, we might clear the paths anyway, just to avoid a repeat of the stupidity that happened before. At least it was a notice last time, and not something like the city seizing our vehicles. Amazing what technology can do, is it not?
Of course, we could end up discussing the Administration's latest exit strategy, as well as how Saddam was really captured (for we now have a dissenting view), and if we wanted to go back, we could complain about how Bush got in for a second term in the first place.
But too much seriousness would kill the mood, so we'd probably really end up discussing Levitra couches, the Cloud Appreciation Society, and Erisian heresies. (The rest of the Sacred Writings are worth looking at, too.)
And it's apparently been LGBT week at University, and perhaps there's some sort of kiss-in tomorrow... (For as many people as I have on my friends-list and in real life that fall into those categories, I'm probably not very informed about issues and such in the community.) The thing is, apparently, some people think that gay kids shouldn't be protected from bullies. It's not in my state, but the people in my state that passed an innocuous-sounding marriage protection amendment are now seeing it twisted to try and crush domestic-partner and other benefits that many had been assured would not be affected by the amendment. For those who predicted it, we smile politely and say "We said this would happen. Perhaps next time you will listen?" Schools, both secondary and university-level, have been targeted to stop providing their benefits because of the amendment. With success in smaller areas, the university community here is waiting for someone to bring challenge to them. Something to sic the lawyers on, I suppose. Thing is, we're expecting it to happen.
Enough of that, though, for tomorrow, I start at ten letting kids play with instruments, shift into thesis-writing at 11, then off for a bit, and some more interesting events for Friday night, like parties and get togethers and such. Should be fun.
I'm sure I ask this a lot of times, but do people read this to listen to what I have to pontificate or to what I have to describe about my poor and oft-uninteresting life? Should I scrap one section in favor of another?
And it snowed today. So, perhaps in the morning, if the snow has stopped falling, we'll go grab the shovel and clear off the sidewalks. If it's still falling, we might clear the paths anyway, just to avoid a repeat of the stupidity that happened before. At least it was a notice last time, and not something like the city seizing our vehicles. Amazing what technology can do, is it not?
Of course, we could end up discussing the Administration's latest exit strategy, as well as how Saddam was really captured (for we now have a dissenting view), and if we wanted to go back, we could complain about how Bush got in for a second term in the first place.
But too much seriousness would kill the mood, so we'd probably really end up discussing Levitra couches, the Cloud Appreciation Society, and Erisian heresies. (The rest of the Sacred Writings are worth looking at, too.)
And it's apparently been LGBT week at University, and perhaps there's some sort of kiss-in tomorrow... (For as many people as I have on my friends-list and in real life that fall into those categories, I'm probably not very informed about issues and such in the community.) The thing is, apparently, some people think that gay kids shouldn't be protected from bullies. It's not in my state, but the people in my state that passed an innocuous-sounding marriage protection amendment are now seeing it twisted to try and crush domestic-partner and other benefits that many had been assured would not be affected by the amendment. For those who predicted it, we smile politely and say "We said this would happen. Perhaps next time you will listen?" Schools, both secondary and university-level, have been targeted to stop providing their benefits because of the amendment. With success in smaller areas, the university community here is waiting for someone to bring challenge to them. Something to sic the lawyers on, I suppose. Thing is, we're expecting it to happen.
Enough of that, though, for tomorrow, I start at ten letting kids play with instruments, shift into thesis-writing at 11, then off for a bit, and some more interesting events for Friday night, like parties and get togethers and such. Should be fun.
I'm sure I ask this a lot of times, but do people read this to listen to what I have to pontificate or to what I have to describe about my poor and oft-uninteresting life? Should I scrap one section in favor of another?
