softball

...is not my sport. However, there's a team at work, and every year I think I'll end up going to a game to cheer on my cow orkers.

I just got an email about their first game this season, which is tonight (Hello? How about some advance notice? You might get some more spectators that way...). And found that they are not using the name they've used for the past few years, the Penguins (one of the Pearson subsidiaries is Penguin), but the Swingers. Hmmmm.... I really must try to get to one of the games this year... :-)≥

Shakespeare on the Common

(from an article in today's Globe)

This summer's production will be Henry V, rather than their originally scheduled Macbeth (which I'm pleased about; I've seen a bunch of Macbeths recently, and a less-performed play is good.) The powers-that-decide-such-things thought that this would be more topical, considering what's going on in the world these days.

Apparently it's being set in England in the 1930s. And Anthony Rapp has the title role.

It's running from July 19 through August 4. Last year I 'hosted' a Thursday (vegetarian/vegan) potluck on the Common, and people seemed to enjoy it... I think I'll do it again this year, with everyone here who wants to join also invited, of course. 

toys

Of course I forgot to mention in the upsherin post last night.. there were toys! And of course I snagged some :-)

There were little pinwheels on a longer-than-the-pinwheel-size-would-imply stick, and
Funky Straws. These have a join in them, where there's a smiley flower. When you suck liquid through one side, or blow through the other side, the bright pink smiley flower revolves... great entertainment for bears of little brain...

(Really, I will get something done today other than posting here. Yes I will. Just watch.)
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art

I was walking home from Harvard Square, heading through the Yard, and there are a lot of installations being put up. I think this weekend (in addition to the other myriad events) is Harvard's ArtsFirst or something...

The things I noticed on my diagonal walk:
Slices of not-so-big tree trunks place around one area.
A barrier of some sort being made of branches somehow being held together. Random lacy effect.
A huge (people-sized), red exercise wheel, the kind which, when smaller, is often found in hamster cages (and other small rodent pets' cages. Far be it from me to be overly hamsterite... :-)
Two curved bridges, wider at each end than the middle, covered in grass.

I could also see, by the end of the Yard I wasn't near, some sort of white rectilinear tall thing, and a blue thing that looked like it might've come from a playground. And I'm sure there are things I missed.... Don't know how long they'll be there