Minutiae

We went to Austin on 11/11 to see Joanna Newsom at the Paramount. She was lovely. She played 13 songs (2 encore songs). Being a weirdo, I made a list of every song she sang so that I could recreate the concert on my iPod later.

I wrote a play based on improvisations that my 7th and 8th graders did, based on mythological characters that they chose. The play is called Therapy of the Gods. It features Pandora as a therapist who helps the various gods work out their problems. At one point it turns into a game show like the Dating Game (Pandora is trying to get Apollo to date), hosted by Aphrodite; and later on, Persephone and Demeter turn the play into a soap opera. The kids will perform it twice on December 3, after an extreme paucity of rehearsals. My hopes are not high, but the play is kind of funny.

I got a cold last week and it seems to be going away slowly now. I have been sweating a lot the last three days. This week is my Thanksgiving break and though it is a little irritating to be sick during the break, it is also kind of a blessing, since I don't have to go to school this week.

I finally took down some of the cruddy blinds in my room (they were filthy and broken) and put up some curtains yesterday. I bought the curtains at Burlington Coat Factory. They're big and dark purple and I'm not used to them yet, but I do like having the blinds down.

My friends Marcus and Margaret will be coming to stay for Thanksgiving, then next week my friend Dave is coming for three weeks. He will be performing his one-man show at a theatre here at Trinity University. So I have been sort of cleaning up and rearranging things for the past few weeks in preparation for these visits.

Since being sick I have had some intense dreams.

Last night I slept for only three or four hours and the rest of the time I creeped around on Facebook. Life is so weird.