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heliopausa) wrote2016-11-07 09:59 am
heliopausa) wrote2016-11-07 09:59 am
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And the year slips away
November already. It's shaping to be a busy month, but less stressful than October, anyway. (Sympathy and support, by the way, to those of you anxiously waiting to vote, or to hear the results, in the US elections.)
This month is my last chance to make a dash for completion - even beginning! - of my New Year's resolutions. One resolution was to knit (for the first time ever) a pair of socks; it's not begun - not even the wool bought, or the pattern sorted. I'll try for those essential beginnings this week, at least.
And there was also Chinese character-learning... well, eight weeks to go!
Shakespeare! The stageoffools Shakespeare fest has happened, and gone public. To my delight I was given a terrific reworking of Hamlet: I am to do a good turn for them, by days_of_storm. It's a great story, reworking Hamlet's canonical account of kidnap by a pirate ship to reveal very different underlying realities - I won't spoil anything, but I will say that days_of_storm gave us a wonderfully Macchiavellian Hamlet, quick, intelligent and hard as nails. As Horatio nearly says - what a king he might have been! (I always thought the pirate story sounded suss. :D )
More on Hamlet - and other Shakespeare-related matters - tomorrow. :)
This month is my last chance to make a dash for completion - even beginning! - of my New Year's resolutions. One resolution was to knit (for the first time ever) a pair of socks; it's not begun - not even the wool bought, or the pattern sorted. I'll try for those essential beginnings this week, at least.
And there was also Chinese character-learning... well, eight weeks to go!
Shakespeare! The stageoffools Shakespeare fest has happened, and gone public. To my delight I was given a terrific reworking of Hamlet: I am to do a good turn for them, by days_of_storm. It's a great story, reworking Hamlet's canonical account of kidnap by a pirate ship to reveal very different underlying realities - I won't spoil anything, but I will say that days_of_storm gave us a wonderfully Macchiavellian Hamlet, quick, intelligent and hard as nails. As Horatio nearly says - what a king he might have been! (I always thought the pirate story sounded suss. :D )
More on Hamlet - and other Shakespeare-related matters - tomorrow. :)