cranium

we've started our rehearsals for the one-act play, which is sam shepard's a lie of the mind this year. the original cast, when the play premiered in the mid-80's, starred amanda plummer, harvey keitel, aidan quinn and geraldine page. our second read-thru was today and it's starting off slow and quiet. it feels perfect.
fran gave me some cologne for christmas that's making me happy. also, she brought me chicken soup yesterday at school. it was delicious.
there's an article about christopher guest in the december-january issue of paste-- a really irritating article. the author insisted on using a lot of CAPITAL LETTERS IN ORDER TO EMPHASIZE HIMSELF. the article is obviously written for comic effect, but fails in that regard, succeeding only in being irritating, and not telling us much about mr. guest at all. the author would defend himself, as he hints at in the article, by saying that mr. guest didn't give him much to work with. but that's a poor excuse for a professional journalist. plenty could have been done with what christopher said. i'm thinking about writing a letter to the magazine in order to mention these things; but the article is so blatantly bad that i'm sure someone else will do that for me.
i'm feeling better, snot is slowly receding, headaches dissipating...