Resume in three parts: Part C (Dwight Schrute trivia)
Today my aunt had surgery to remove the malignant growths. Word is that the surgery was successful, so we are hopeful that after some chemotherapy and radiation treatment, the cancer will be in total remission. Thanks for all of your prayers and good thoughts.
I'm sorry for the Pats; I thought for sure they would pull through, but more power to the Colts for finally solving their permanent stumbling block to the Super Bowl. The Bears beat the Saints handily, which makes me even more disappointed that Andy Reid & his coaching staff weren’t a bit more aggressive in play calling against the Saints, especially on that 4th and 15 we needed to convert in the 4th quarter, rather than give up the ball for the last 3 minutes of the game. Ah well, what else would I have to be totally depressed about if I couldn’t bitch and moan about the state of Philadelphia sports teams?
A/K/A soccer! Arsenal over Man U this weekend -- great match. I like that this delays Man U’s solidifying the league title, but I wish Arsenal hadn’t pulled even with Liverpool with the win. I hate Chelsea (except I kinda like a couple of players on their team when they play for their national teams, like Ballack and Terry) so in a sense I wish that Man U would have deflated Chelsea's hopes. I guess all in all, I was pleased with the result, as Man U loses too infrequently for me to be choosy about who beats them.
The Powerball jackpot is 240 million! Such a great amount that I'd hardly be upset that it would work out to about $60 million in cash after present value discounting and taxes. I always think I am going to win. I buy one ticket and for some crazy reason, I completely believe I’m going to win. I start imagining how I’ll spend the money (after I take care of my student loans, my immediate family’s mortgages/debts/college funds, and buy a house finally): I’ll (1) stop working, (2) go on a month-long spa vacation with my girlfriends, (3) take up the cello finally, and (4) go back to school, taking maybe one class a semester. And I’d just write and write and travel and write some more. And do volunteer work. And get a personal trainer for working out every day, like Oprah before she ran the Marine Corps Marathon.
I’ll find gorgeous young male native speakers to help me learn Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Dutch, and Hindi. And Masi Oka to teach me Japanese. And a cute old Irish man to teach me Gaelic - my only requirement is that he must have marriageable grandsons, one of whom will fall madly in love with me without knowing a thing about my fortune, and then after our round-the-world honeymoon, he’ll want to do all kinds of volunteer and pro bono and public interest work with me, because that’s the kind of guy he is. Yeah, that's quite a daydream, huh?
I’ve volunteered to do tax prep for low-income people in my county one night a week, but I have to get trained up first. They sent me an e-mail saying, “Sign up for training here!” and the “here” they linked me to didn’t have anything about training. I did a Google search of their site and couldn’t find any page for training sign-ups. So I have to call them and figure out what’s the dealio.
My parents visited this weekend and we saw King Lear at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre, put on by the Classical Theatre of Harlem. It was aaaaaaaawesome (like, crazy-Lucky-describing-Woody-Goodman awesome). First, if you haven't been to the Folger, the theater is about 100 seats, maybe 7 rows deep, 7 seats on each side of the aisle and two balconies with one row each, and they block some scenes using the entire theater, even the center aisle and the balconies. It's an amazing experience to see anything there. At one point, Lear actually walked across the people seated in one of the rows! What fun -- I love feeling like a part of the production. Makes me remember my acting experiences in high school productions. Anyway -- the actor playing Lear was two-time Tony nominee (Best Actor) Andre De Shields and he was superb -- I could feel the senility and madness creeping in to Lear's mind just by looking at him -- it was an incredibly physical role -- a very physical production, actually, for all of the actors -- and I was really in awe of them. Also the actor who played deliciously evil Edmund, Ty Jones, was phenomenal. As well as the Fool, my favorite character in the play, and not just because my Shakespeare prof in college had me read all of the Fool's lines in class (as well as the drunken porter in Macbeth -- guess I just radiate the craziness, hmm?). Anyway, if there's a chance for you to visit DC before the run ends February 18, check it out. It's really, really well done. It was a very intense, absorbing production. And Lear is an awesome play. Definitely my favorite after Hamlet.
Washington, D.C. is beautiful with snow. I always forget, until the first snow of the year -- which was last night. It was not enough to justify a snow day from work, although my county cancelled school for the day. I’m hoping for at least one snow day this year even though it means that I end up having to do the same amount of work in a shorter period of time. Still, it's worth it to have a weekday all cuddled up at home on my couch or on my bed with my computer, tapping away happily at whatever story or fic I’m absorbed in. *Sigh*
I'm sorry for the Pats; I thought for sure they would pull through, but more power to the Colts for finally solving their permanent stumbling block to the Super Bowl. The Bears beat the Saints handily, which makes me even more disappointed that Andy Reid & his coaching staff weren’t a bit more aggressive in play calling against the Saints, especially on that 4th and 15 we needed to convert in the 4th quarter, rather than give up the ball for the last 3 minutes of the game. Ah well, what else would I have to be totally depressed about if I couldn’t bitch and moan about the state of Philadelphia sports teams?
A/K/A soccer! Arsenal over Man U this weekend -- great match. I like that this delays Man U’s solidifying the league title, but I wish Arsenal hadn’t pulled even with Liverpool with the win. I hate Chelsea (except I kinda like a couple of players on their team when they play for their national teams, like Ballack and Terry) so in a sense I wish that Man U would have deflated Chelsea's hopes. I guess all in all, I was pleased with the result, as Man U loses too infrequently for me to be choosy about who beats them.
The Powerball jackpot is 240 million! Such a great amount that I'd hardly be upset that it would work out to about $60 million in cash after present value discounting and taxes. I always think I am going to win. I buy one ticket and for some crazy reason, I completely believe I’m going to win. I start imagining how I’ll spend the money (after I take care of my student loans, my immediate family’s mortgages/debts/college funds, and buy a house finally): I’ll (1) stop working, (2) go on a month-long spa vacation with my girlfriends, (3) take up the cello finally, and (4) go back to school, taking maybe one class a semester. And I’d just write and write and travel and write some more. And do volunteer work. And get a personal trainer for working out every day, like Oprah before she ran the Marine Corps Marathon.
I’ll find gorgeous young male native speakers to help me learn Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Dutch, and Hindi. And Masi Oka to teach me Japanese. And a cute old Irish man to teach me Gaelic - my only requirement is that he must have marriageable grandsons, one of whom will fall madly in love with me without knowing a thing about my fortune, and then after our round-the-world honeymoon, he’ll want to do all kinds of volunteer and pro bono and public interest work with me, because that’s the kind of guy he is. Yeah, that's quite a daydream, huh?
I’ve volunteered to do tax prep for low-income people in my county one night a week, but I have to get trained up first. They sent me an e-mail saying, “Sign up for training here!” and the “here” they linked me to didn’t have anything about training. I did a Google search of their site and couldn’t find any page for training sign-ups. So I have to call them and figure out what’s the dealio.
My parents visited this weekend and we saw King Lear at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre, put on by the Classical Theatre of Harlem. It was aaaaaaaawesome (like, crazy-Lucky-describing-Woody-Goodman awesome). First, if you haven't been to the Folger, the theater is about 100 seats, maybe 7 rows deep, 7 seats on each side of the aisle and two balconies with one row each, and they block some scenes using the entire theater, even the center aisle and the balconies. It's an amazing experience to see anything there. At one point, Lear actually walked across the people seated in one of the rows! What fun -- I love feeling like a part of the production. Makes me remember my acting experiences in high school productions. Anyway -- the actor playing Lear was two-time Tony nominee (Best Actor) Andre De Shields and he was superb -- I could feel the senility and madness creeping in to Lear's mind just by looking at him -- it was an incredibly physical role -- a very physical production, actually, for all of the actors -- and I was really in awe of them. Also the actor who played deliciously evil Edmund, Ty Jones, was phenomenal. As well as the Fool, my favorite character in the play, and not just because my Shakespeare prof in college had me read all of the Fool's lines in class (as well as the drunken porter in Macbeth -- guess I just radiate the craziness, hmm?). Anyway, if there's a chance for you to visit DC before the run ends February 18, check it out. It's really, really well done. It was a very intense, absorbing production. And Lear is an awesome play. Definitely my favorite after Hamlet.
Washington, D.C. is beautiful with snow. I always forget, until the first snow of the year -- which was last night. It was not enough to justify a snow day from work, although my county cancelled school for the day. I’m hoping for at least one snow day this year even though it means that I end up having to do the same amount of work in a shorter period of time. Still, it's worth it to have a weekday all cuddled up at home on my couch or on my bed with my computer, tapping away happily at whatever story or fic I’m absorbed in. *Sigh*