shave and a haircut...

driving home from seeing music and lyrics tonight, gina pointed out a large hill of untouched snow and mentioned it looked like a perfect place for a snow angel. cursing under my breath, i pulled the car over, ran into the field, fell down and made my second snow angel of the weekend (the first was last night in my front lawn). it was like being triple dog dared. it was like i was roger rabbit and judge doom had started knocking. i just couldn't resist.

believe it or not, i actually liked music and lyrics. it was exactly like its subject matter - a pop song. nothing too deep, but then sometimes you're not looking for deep, you're just looking for something to make you feel good. and that it did. hugh grant was hilarious, drew barrymore played drew barrymore and the writing, while predictable plotwise, was witty enough that you didn't mind so much. a good and entertaining rom com.

no grading today - too busy. wasn't home long enough to actually get the last three papers done. trying to figure out how to grade the handful of pseudo-plagiarized papers - yes, they cut and paste, but they at least attempted to do proper citations. so i'll take points off, but not give them a zero. i'll leave that to their junior/senior teachers. nothing like passing the buck.

saw rhonda in the crucible. she did an excellent job. and the third act was quite powerful. but i felt it was mostly miscast. and i question some of the acting/directing choices made. and act iii was a bit dark. glad i was able to make it, though i ended up sitting on my own. should be used to that by now. such a powerful play, and frighteningly relevant even today.

bought some books yesterday - got my own copy of extremely loud and incredibly close. hope to reread it, this time marking passages. been a while since i've read a book that made me want to turn back to the first page and start reading again after i finished. also picked up buechner's speak what we feel not what we ought to say, his look at hopkins, twain, chesterton and shakespeare. then i went on half.com last night and bought another copy of life after God, one i can read over and over and not worry about ruining (my only other copy is signed). if this afternoon did anything, it inspired me to do some directing of my own. need to make this thing a reality.

time to get me some sleep. forgot to ask if there would be prayers tomorrow, so think i'll sleep until i wake up, finish my research papers and get started on the into the wild essays before i meet julie for lunch to talk about lent. wow, that's an awfully busy morning for a day off....
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Tunes: sonic youth - teenage riot