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adiva_calandiaThis thread is still making me cackle hysterically.
Today has been a fairly decent day. I went to the gym and actually had a good workout, unlike Wednesday when I was sneezy and hungry and working through a Benadryl haze. Then we had lunch with my kindergarten teacher, then Dad and I dealt with financial stuff like loans and savings accounts and all. (Financial responsibility is SCARY, but at least I have a handle on it at the moment.)
Less great was that Fox News was on in the weight room. I wasn't really paying attention until they started talking about Benazir Bhutto -- and then how it was almost certain that Al Qaeda was responsible for the assassination, and how the Pakistani government had warned her that she was danger.
Thankfully, I was done with my set, so I could storm out in disgust without ruining my workout.
Honestly. In some contexts, you know, "warning someone that they may be in danger" is the same as "threatening someone." Of course she knew she was in danger, it's only been two months since the last attempt on her life! . . .
What a world, what a world.
It saddens me immeasurably that it took these events to make me aware of Benazir Bhutto at all. What a fascinating woman. Maybe I should take my cue from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shoroko and make the BBC site my homepage.
I think this must be another part of growing up, just like taking a hand in my own finances.
More and more, I want to do Julius Caesar to reflect this situation. I still like my original semiotic campaign idea, but right now, right this second . . . ATY is doing Caesar in a few months, but I rather suspect that tackling global politics is not really in the scope of a youth theatre company.
--Although come to think, there's Playground coming up in April at CMU. If I could cut it down to 45 minutes . . . I don't know, it's so hard to send a single message with Caesar, because really the hero of the play is Brutus, the assassin, and it's hard to simultaneously condemn him and make the audience feel it when Antony says "This was the noblest Roman of them all."
Today has been a fairly decent day. I went to the gym and actually had a good workout, unlike Wednesday when I was sneezy and hungry and working through a Benadryl haze. Then we had lunch with my kindergarten teacher, then Dad and I dealt with financial stuff like loans and savings accounts and all. (Financial responsibility is SCARY, but at least I have a handle on it at the moment.)
Less great was that Fox News was on in the weight room. I wasn't really paying attention until they started talking about Benazir Bhutto -- and then how it was almost certain that Al Qaeda was responsible for the assassination, and how the Pakistani government had warned her that she was danger.
Thankfully, I was done with my set, so I could storm out in disgust without ruining my workout.
Honestly. In some contexts, you know, "warning someone that they may be in danger" is the same as "threatening someone." Of course she knew she was in danger, it's only been two months since the last attempt on her life! . . .
What a world, what a world.
It saddens me immeasurably that it took these events to make me aware of Benazir Bhutto at all. What a fascinating woman. Maybe I should take my cue from
shoroko and make the BBC site my homepage.I think this must be another part of growing up, just like taking a hand in my own finances.
More and more, I want to do Julius Caesar to reflect this situation. I still like my original semiotic campaign idea, but right now, right this second . . . ATY is doing Caesar in a few months, but I rather suspect that tackling global politics is not really in the scope of a youth theatre company.
--Although come to think, there's Playground coming up in April at CMU. If I could cut it down to 45 minutes . . . I don't know, it's so hard to send a single message with Caesar, because really the hero of the play is Brutus, the assassin, and it's hard to simultaneously condemn him and make the audience feel it when Antony says "This was the noblest Roman of them all."
