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Gah.
Too many days when I don't want to do much more than hermit in my room ( Read more... ) -
Company
I've long loved musicals, but I have huge gaps in my knowledge. One of those gaps was filled tonight, as I went up to an Evanston movie theater to see a production of "Company," a classic musical by Stephen Sondhim from 1970. It was an outstanding show, a filmed version of a Broadway production from earlier this year, starring Neil Patrick Harris ( Read more... ) -
A bit of a moment, here....
I'm a blog-reader (more than I am a writer, admittedly), and I follow a number of personal style blogs. They're not high-fashion -- they're generally real people with real jobs not in the fashion industry, who post a picture of what they wore that day, identify the various bits and pieces, and talk a little about their personal style. One of my ( Read more... ) -
My story-worthy week
I'm a fairly regular listener to The Moth podcast, which always encourages its listeners to "have a story-worthy week," but I don't know that that has ever been as true as it has been for the last few days. So I've got to see if I can spin this tale to do it adequate justice.
Step back with me to Saturday. I'm at The Grove, down in the boondocks ( Read more... ) -
What if ...? Part 2
Yeah, it's just a few hours after my last post, and I'm arguing with myself about its premises. I also believe in the striving to be something more than you are, in trying to be a better person ....or perhaps I should say a realer person. More myself. UberJo, as I jokingly call her. And so, sure, while I can only deal with the reality that I ( Read more... ) -
What if ...?
Start from the proposition that I don't need to be "fixed ( Read more... ) -
What to say?
One of my big projects these days is figuring out what I really want from life. What are the things and ways of living that honestly make it easier for me to get up in the morning, step into the day with energy, and be the best Jo that's available? What might that UberJo look like? And what are the things which are devastating to my best ( Read more... ) -
Costuming!
OK, folks. I need some combined brain power here ( Read more... ) -
Lucas.
Yesterday, we came downstairs in the morning and, after a while, realized that Lucas wasn't particularly interested in getting out of bed. I thought maybe he'd want to sit up, that maybe he just couldn't get traction, so I tried to help him, but he couldn't sit up on his own. When we helped him to stand, he toppled over once we removed our ( Read more... ) -
Coming up for air
I was talking to a Classics DPhil student the other day who said that he's tired of being around academics all the time, and he'd like to spend some time around people who "actually, you know, do WORK." (This after he and I had probably spent a good hour whinging about our respective non-works, mind you.)
I can't really disagree with him. An awful ( Read more... )