The icon says it all

File under "Life is unfair" - I went to bed early so I wouldn't be tired all day, and ended up waking up in the middle of the night. For two hours. I just can't win for losing right now.

No news is supposed to be good news regarding my father. I'll be calling in again after work.

I have resolved into a dew to see Hamlet regardless: Britain's most prestigious players doing England's greatest play is hardly going to be a bad night on the town regardless of my preference for the comedies. If I repeat the mantra enough, I may even feel the truth of it.

I do feel the truth of this statement: If I come back having seen five of the six actors I went to see perform, then I have nothing to complain about.

However, in the "shallow Nea is still shallow" department, I have to confess that if he isn't back in time for me to see, I hope he doesn't come back at all for the run. (Considering that healing properly is THE most important thing so we all have a chance to see him another time, I rather doubt he will be back.) But it would really gut me to find out that he'd returned to the stage just as I returned to America, or worse, while I was still in the town but not in the theater.

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Have spoken directly to Dad, who sounds tired but in surprisingly good spirits. I need a "whew!" icon.

Gallimaufry

Happy birthday jigglykat!

I have tried on several occasions to bring zen into my life. This always happens.

Apparently Library Thing has a meme about the top books that people own to look smart but don't read. I take issue with anyone thinking that Angels and Demons makes you "look smart" because the appropriate words to describe it are more like "... like a Hoover. Like a *Dyson*!"

( Under the cut. I've bolded what I've read and had opinions about several others. )

Where's A Distant Mirror? The House of Seven Gables? SHAKESPEARE? (Yes; yes; yes; and yes, seen or read all of 'em by the way)