I'm caught back up on Night Manager. I'm enjoying it. I promise I'll get back to my moral dilemma post at some point and hopefully more thoughts on the series overall. Maybe when it ends. Or when I magically find more hours in the day ( Read more... )

I have an online meeting at 10:30. It is required for my funding this year and I hate it. 10:30 is the worst possible time for me. I usually write best in the mornings, say 9:30 to lunch. If I start at 9:30, I'll barely get going before the 10:30 meeting interrupts but then it isn't over until basically lunch time. So on days when we have these ( Read more... )

LifeNothing new and major has gone wrong lately! In my world in 2015, that really is something to celebrate. My grandma still isn't doing well after the late May car accident. From everything I've heard, I will be somewhat surprised if she makes it to the end of the year, but I'm trying to keep that kind of in the back of my mind since I don't know ( Read more... )

Yesterday I ( Read more... )

I got the chapter to my advisor by last Monday like I needed to do. The last few pages I wrote are absolute crap, but I got it done. Tuesday and Wednesday were spent doing everything else for the application for funding for next year. I should hear within 2 or 3 weeks. Here's hoping ( Read more... )

I went to the NT broadcast of King Lear this weekend. I really enjoyed it. Lear is my second favorite of Shakespeare's tragedies - my ranking is basically Hamlet on top, Lear half a step below that, and everything else that I know so far below them that it hardly matters to rank them - and Simon Russel Beale unsurprisingly did a wonderful job in ( Read more... )

I wrote you an epic post of everything! Then I decided it was a bit too epic, so I'm breaking into two. Part 1 (this one) is a bit of Real Life stuff and what I've been reading lately. Part 2 is what I've watched recently, mostly National Theatre play broadcasts. See what happens when it is Spring Break so I don't have to go to campus to deal with ( Read more... )

If you like audiobooks, Humble Bundle has a fantastic deal right now! You get 5 audiobooks for any amount you want to pay (minimum of one penny) or you can pay more than the then average to get 8 books. The deal runs for the next 2 weeks, but many people go higher than the average, which constantly increases the amount you have to pay to get all 8 ( Read more... )

Hey! It's a meme!

Comment and I will pick a category for you to recommend three things. The category could be broad (eg. "books") or specific (eg. "French cakes"). If you don't feel confident with it, I'll give you another one.

qwentoozla gave me books that I've read recently, with recently open to interpretation ( Read more... )

This week I listened to a dramatization of Dostoevsky's The Possessed and it completely blew my mind. I'm still dealing with the mental fallout and have a full-blown essay on it inside. Sorry about that. ;) I also listened to Life in London and a couple of panel shows for some lighter fare.

This week, there's a bunch of good stuff coming up. A few ( Read more... )