Thursday miscellany, and Caesar

[magid]

Sunday entertainment options: the Beacon Hill Art Walk (noon to 6), the East Boston Open Studios (also noon to 6; there are seven locations, and there's free water taxi service, which is just cool), a partial lighting at Waterfire (starting at 8:16 pm). Thought I might end up a homebody, getting the plants in order and getting groceries (yes, such fun :-).

I keep seeing the number on the LJ front page, and the number of journals has increased from 5 to 7 million without any change (within daily/weekly peaks) in active journals. What's up with that?

Surprise! My boss left me a card with a $10 Blockbuster gift card in it, which really made my morning. Except, what do I use it for? I don't have any way to watch movies and such at my house, and many of my video-enabled friends have Netflix and/or Tivo with lots of things in queue. Suggestions?

Gaming: not only not dead, but finished the campaign successfully! (a really late night, though)

I'm still not getting enough sleep, but it doesn't seem to be affecting my mood as much. Either I'm acclimating (not what I'd like), or I'm eating better/walking more, enough to even things out. (And there's always the fallback female explanation: hormones.) In any case, I'll take it. If I'm going to be underslept, I'd rather be in a good mood :-).

I wish the T had clocks and listings of nearing trains, like Tube stations. With so many fewer interchanges and branches, I suppose it's not nearly so necessary to know when the next train's coming, but I'd like it anyway. Oh, and why do so many T stations have to be so ugly? OK, the lighting isn't good, fine, but South Station, for instance, is just nasty. And that's what some people see first in the system, if they come by train.

Sunday night I went to the ASP production of Julius Caesar, at the Central Square Y. Had I been not falling over with sleepiness, I would've enjoyed it more; I was glad I'd already knew the play well enough to know approximately what was going on even when I zoned, at least. As before, they put on an excellent show. I was surprised to see the Bard himself in the play, meandering through delivering lines of a supporting character, after the beginning playing about with coming up with dialogue. In some ways this is a very understandable play (especially given politics in the US these days), and in others it feels wholly alien (all the signs and portents, ignored of course).

Comments

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, when I first read, "the ASP production of Julius Caesar," my first thought was, "Some programmer has WAAAAAY too much time on his hands!"

[ckd]

You have an extra double quote in the East Boston Open Studios link.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks, especially because on my browser it looked just as it was supposed to. When I looked at the html, I was missing one at the beginning, actually. Fixed, now.