I saw George Bernard Shaw's play Heartbreak House the other night, a good production of a play that I didn't love, but liked a lot and which had a number of bits that snag in the memory. It has a lot of interesting points to make about power, as it plays out in British society, and a neat tendency to avoid (or invert) the obvious conclusion. It was ( Read more... )

I am now much less stressed. Sure, I have no internet (currently compromising my principles in Starbucks) and no car, and there's a hold-up with one piece of paper that means I may not be able to start work next Tuesday as planned, but these are minor inconveniences compared with all the active disasters of December. Anyway. This gets me almost up ( Read more... )