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2008-05-25, 9:25 a.m.:
Yes, Lara, Iceland is the way to go.

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2008-05-09, 9:34 a.m.:
The Second Life Shakespeare Company, in short.

We have four more performances of our mini-produciton of Hamlet (Act III, Scene 2 - "The Mousetrap") this weekend. There is talk of doing staged readings of Julius Caesar, which I must say I think a very bad idea from a female-actor standpoint. (Julius Caesar has only two female parts, both minor.) I'm holding out for Midsummer Night's Dream! I think this has been my favorite Shakespeare play since childhood. Fairies and love's labours and all that.

I'm at the brink this weekend, of CU's Maymester. At one time 9th on the waitlist, I am now officially enrolled in a very, very intensive 2nd year Spanish class: one semester in three weeks. It sounds crazy and I'm sure it is. And I still never even took 2nd semester of the first year. So is it even doable? Why not? Or, er, maybe not. Three hours a day for three weeks ... what's three weeks in the scheme of things? The first week will be a bitch, what with my lacking knowledge of the conditional, the future and other tenses I can't even name right now. (Does Spanish even have a historical/literary tense like French's pass� simple? I have no idea.)

I could finish the entire 2nd year of Spanish this summer. Or alternately I could take one year of Japanese. Yes, I am thinking of switching. I am dumb that way. I can't stay put and I can't stay focused. I need to wear earphones and a helmet all the time to filter out the clutter, the extraneous, the too-sensual stimuli. Lastly, I am signed up for a Shakespeare acting class. This seems like great fun and is exactly what I'm focused on right now. But I'm also a bit terrified, being a huge unwieldy introvert who actually hates people. Which is why acting doesn't seem like quite the right thing. But then again, maybe I mean the opposite and it's just the right thing exactly?

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2008-05-05, 10:34 a.m.:
And the requisite MetaFilter thread about it.

Personally, the Star Wars/1942 line is what really does it for me. I drool over that version of Darth Vader.

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2008-05-04, 9:28 p.m.:
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!

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2008-04-20, 10:11 a.m.:
"Northeast from Augusta, Georgia, U.S. Highway 25 leads across the Savannah River into South Carolina to the town of North Augusta and beyond that to the unincorporated community of Murphy Village, a twenty-five square mile community of some 1,500 Irish Travelers. But Murphy Village is not the only community of Irish Travelers in the South. In a mobile home park near Memphis, Tennessee, and scattered across Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi are other enclaves; yet Murphy Village is by far the largest, most affluent, and best known of all the populations of Irish con artists. Most of the information in this article comes from Murphy Village but fits well other Irish Travelers ... "Among the more than 1,500 Travelers in Murphy Village there are only eleven surnames."

from Fraudtech on Irish Travellers in America

Atticus is now calling Ewoks 'E-walkers.'

Wonderful quotes from today's Sunday NYT article about an 'entity or spirit' caught on film in a New Paltz, New York public library:

"We're logical people - we're library people" (a New Paltz librarian who believes in the ghost)

"But another patron, who gave his name as Sneakers Daystar and his occupation as entrepreneur ..."

"Ghost in the New Paltz Library"

Snow is finally melting. Yesterday I stood for three hours in the mountain sun, walked up and down bouldery cliffs at the beck of various kids and stood sentry to make sure small, loping bodies did not bounce right off the side of a large trampoline. It was a birthday party for a five-year-old. I done my time. And so today is given over to reading the paper and making plans, the delicious kind that light up the whole future.

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2008-04-07, 11:16 a.m.:
It happened overnight (literally), and now I have six poems up at Left Facing Bird. Check it out, compa�eros!

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2008-03-29, 3:10 p.m.:
It's a must-click. Take a vocabulary quiz and help fight world hunger. 20 grains of rice for every correct answer.

I contributed 10,000 grains just today!

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