Two random thoughts
Random thought #1:
Wow, that Mansfield Park audio adaptation I looked so forward to is crap! Even I, having never read the book all the way through, can still spot the important gaps in the abridgement, and there's none of the sparkling charm of the Jane Austen Classic BBC Radio adaptation that I bought at JASNA last year - a version so very beguiling that the last time I listened to it, I was prompted to go out and buy Mansfield to give it another whirl. The green goose defeated me, but now that I've found out what the heck that *is* I'm going to try again.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Julia McKenzie, and David Tennant regardless, this is not an adaptation that would inspire me to tackle the book again.
Random thought #2
The infinite relief at not having to paint the kitchen cabinets and drawers myself is absolutely worth 1/2 a month's paydown of the furlough loan. Maybe I'll make up the money later in the year; maybe I'll pay off my debt in January. Either way, a job I'd been dreading and putting off is going to be done by the end of the weekend, and not by me, huzzah!
Wow, that Mansfield Park audio adaptation I looked so forward to is crap! Even I, having never read the book all the way through, can still spot the important gaps in the abridgement, and there's none of the sparkling charm of the Jane Austen Classic BBC Radio adaptation that I bought at JASNA last year - a version so very beguiling that the last time I listened to it, I was prompted to go out and buy Mansfield to give it another whirl. The green goose defeated me, but now that I've found out what the heck that *is* I'm going to try again.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Julia McKenzie, and David Tennant regardless, this is not an adaptation that would inspire me to tackle the book again.
Random thought #2
The infinite relief at not having to paint the kitchen cabinets and drawers myself is absolutely worth 1/2 a month's paydown of the furlough loan. Maybe I'll make up the money later in the year; maybe I'll pay off my debt in January. Either way, a job I'd been dreading and putting off is going to be done by the end of the weekend, and not by me, huzzah!