Ragtime bluuuuuuues
Ok, I can't really bitch too awful damn much about my period, as it was kind enough to hold off until this morning which allowed me to a) get laid yesterday morning and b) sit through 2.5 hours of Macbeth in comfort.
The play was wonderful. Lady Macbeth was seductively evil and quite lovely, the witches were dramatic and scary, and the modern setting and costumes were very well done and didn't detract from the atmosphere or story like I'd thought they might. The famous "double, double, toil and trouble" scene with the witches was set in a girly bar with the witches posing as strippers before they killed all the patrons and plucked bits off them to mix into their poisonous brew. Very sexy and evil and scary. And the scene with the drunken porter ranting and raving about being the porter to hell was very funny.
Oh, and Lady Macbeth got next to naked in the first scene and we couldn't stop thinking about her boobs all night, because we are just that cultured.
I wasn't sure if we'd enjoy Shakespeare onstage because of the language issue, but even the parts I hadn't read in advance I kept up with well enough that I didn't get lost. We had an amazing time and both want to go again. He wants to see Hamlet and I want to see Taming of the Shrew, neither of which is running at the moment. I hope we'll get to see at least one of those later this year.
Hot Doug's didn't happen, unfortunately. We got there at 1 p.m. and it turned out to be a tiny little place with people lined up around the block. I suppose if we ever want to try it we're just going to have to suck it up and get in line, but yesterday I just didn't feel like it. So we wound up going to Navy Pier early, walking around a bit and then eating lunch at Bubba Gump's Shrimp Company. Which was pretty darn good, though not particularly cheap nor did it have the "off the beaten path" quality we were kind of going for. But that's ok, it was new to us which does go along with the general theme of the dates.
Today I'm working on my math. I haven't been doing so well, and I'm quite far behind. Right now we're going over algebra, my lifelong math nemesis. I'm getting it, but the understanding comes very slowly, and I simply don't have the attention span and frustration tolerance to work on it for long periods at a stretch. I work a couple of problems and have to get up and do something else to let the tension go. At least I'm getting a lot of little crap done around the house. I figured out how to do the simple equations on my own, by consulting multiple sources; but Ian has been my hero today, helping me get through the multi-step problems that were kicking my dumb blonde ass.
I also need to go to the grocery store today... I don't wanna, but I more or less have to. I wish I'd have gotten my ass in gear and gone at six when I woke up. The Sunday afternoon grocery store crowd needs to blow me.
The play was wonderful. Lady Macbeth was seductively evil and quite lovely, the witches were dramatic and scary, and the modern setting and costumes were very well done and didn't detract from the atmosphere or story like I'd thought they might. The famous "double, double, toil and trouble" scene with the witches was set in a girly bar with the witches posing as strippers before they killed all the patrons and plucked bits off them to mix into their poisonous brew. Very sexy and evil and scary. And the scene with the drunken porter ranting and raving about being the porter to hell was very funny.
Oh, and Lady Macbeth got next to naked in the first scene and we couldn't stop thinking about her boobs all night, because we are just that cultured.
I wasn't sure if we'd enjoy Shakespeare onstage because of the language issue, but even the parts I hadn't read in advance I kept up with well enough that I didn't get lost. We had an amazing time and both want to go again. He wants to see Hamlet and I want to see Taming of the Shrew, neither of which is running at the moment. I hope we'll get to see at least one of those later this year.
Hot Doug's didn't happen, unfortunately. We got there at 1 p.m. and it turned out to be a tiny little place with people lined up around the block. I suppose if we ever want to try it we're just going to have to suck it up and get in line, but yesterday I just didn't feel like it. So we wound up going to Navy Pier early, walking around a bit and then eating lunch at Bubba Gump's Shrimp Company. Which was pretty darn good, though not particularly cheap nor did it have the "off the beaten path" quality we were kind of going for. But that's ok, it was new to us which does go along with the general theme of the dates.
Today I'm working on my math. I haven't been doing so well, and I'm quite far behind. Right now we're going over algebra, my lifelong math nemesis. I'm getting it, but the understanding comes very slowly, and I simply don't have the attention span and frustration tolerance to work on it for long periods at a stretch. I work a couple of problems and have to get up and do something else to let the tension go. At least I'm getting a lot of little crap done around the house. I figured out how to do the simple equations on my own, by consulting multiple sources; but Ian has been my hero today, helping me get through the multi-step problems that were kicking my dumb blonde ass.
I also need to go to the grocery store today... I don't wanna, but I more or less have to. I wish I'd have gotten my ass in gear and gone at six when I woke up. The Sunday afternoon grocery store crowd needs to blow me.