Learning to Wear Stripes with Plaid: Not So Easy

A little self perspective:
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." - Albert Einstein

Not having too positive a day, a little sad, a little overwhelmed, but as long as I keep going and not think too much I can at least get done what needs to be done.

I've had kind of an incredible week, show-wise. Wednesday we all went to the Globe theater to see "A Midsummer Night's Dream". It. Was. Amazing. Mostly because I was watching it at the globe itself, and I even reveled in the sore bottom caused by 7-inch seats (lengthwise), telling myself it was the same irritating pain people experienced hundreds of years ago.

Last night, we went to the Playhouse theater to see "The Harder They Come", a Jamaican musical that was short on plot but thick in music. I would have probably enjoyed it much more if I did not have the presentation to give today hanging over my head - will be over in exactly three hours! Parts of it were especially hard to watch, such as when Ivan (the main Robin Hood-type character) was rejected by his mother for seemingly no reason (it made me sad), but mostly it gave me a full appreciation of reggae music that I did not have before.

I've been trying to keep a list of All Weird Things British, perhaps I'll post it when it becomes fuller.

On the subject of classes and teachers, they are all fine and dandy except my crazy theater prof, who is obviously not a Grinnellian prof and consequently says very un-Grinnellian, thoughtless things that are a little shocking. Especially when she's halfway into her gin during class.

Overall, I'm still constantly tired. Weekends looking up, though, especially if I manage to get some real sleep or semblence of rest.