Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Go for it all
Man, I'm still tired from being out in the sun all day yesterday. Of course, averaging 4-5 hours of sleep a night for the past few nights has nothing to do with it.
Yesterday morning, I left the house at 7 to meet up with Adina at the Port Authority, and from there, we made our way up to Central Park, where we joined the line for free tickets to Shakespeare in the Park. They give them out at 1, and the line starts early in the morning--we were there at 8:30, and there were already several hundred people in front of us. We brought breakfast, though, and books, and sat on our blanket and talked and read and wrote for 5 hours, until the tickets were given out at around 1:30. And we got our tickets.
So then, the rest of the afternoon, we dropped off a paper at a prof's house, went home, watched a movie, and then went back to the theatre to see That Scottish Play at 8:30, and it was fantastic. Liev Schreiber played the Scottish dude, and he was amazing... one of the best Shakespeare performances (in a leading role) that I've ever seen, period.
Tanget: I think that some of the sidekicks and more humorous roles are so much easier to play, but not in a slacking kind of easy way. In more of a gratifying, fun, rich kind of easy way. The tragic heroes are so tragic that they're hard to keep from being a charicature, I think. It may sound weird, but I think that it might be easier to make a more comic relief, sidekick character from being a cliche, even though they're almost written as a cliche.
Anyway. Back from tangent. It was amazing. And then we hung around afterwards and got his autograph, which was very cool. He and Naomi Watts were both very gracious (I didn't get her autograph, though).
Then I introduced Adina to Slurpees (which I'd been craving for at least 2 weeks). Can you believe the girl had never had a slurpee before? That's impossible! Then again, we all know that Canadians drink the most slurpees per capita. And Winnipeg has the highest number of that. Hee.
She slept over last night, and we hung out at home for most of the day today, and then I went with her back to the PA, and just got home not long ago. And that was my day. Now I have to get back to writing papers.
We're thinking that we want to go see Mother Courage in August, but we'll have to get into line at 5:30 or 6, instead of 8:30, because Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken are in that show, so the line will get long much quicker. Hopefully we'll both be able to get a day off work, so we can do a weekday, when it's less crowded than a weekend. We'll see, though.
4 Comments:
I must tell you of my day at the Calgary Stampede. I was going to call tonight, but it's already 11:00 in the NYC, so I'm agonna try tomorra. Of course if you read this tonight, feel free to give me a call.
Kim, I was thinking about you and the Stampede? Are you parents here as you planned? Did you go to the parade? Esther and her bridesmaids were here Thursday PM for a "dress-fitting" sleepover, so I was fitting and sewing, fitting and sewing, both evening and Fri. AM. Didn't watch it on TV because I wanted to get working and the girls were asleep on the L.R. floor until nearly 11! I kind of missed going, though. How did your parents like it? Did you go to the grounds afterward? Just think--you are "Stampede-experienced" now, so you could show them the ropes!
Did you hear there is a breakfast at church tomorrow? From 8 - 11, I think, with (one-hour) services at 9 and 11. You might want to witness the miracle of a one-hour service as well as eat!!
Have fun,
Mrs. A.
P.S. Oh, yes, Alida, you are there, too. I missed going to the parade with you!!
I was able to show my parents some of the ropes of Stampede. But it was my first time ever at the Stampede grounds so it was a new experience for all of us. Unfortunately, we couldn't experience a stampede breakfast together - they went home early this morning, and unfortunately I have to work Sunday so I'll miss the breakfast. Hopefully there will be one in my area on Tuesday I can pick up.
There's a Caravan (put on by the Stampede) breakfast at Market Mall on Tuesday from 9 - 11 a.m. It would be in the parking lot--you won't be able to miss it! There's one at Northland on Thursday. I just looked them up.
Glad you could have your folks come and visit--I'm sure you and they enjoyed that.
Mrs. A.
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