8:30 am
I do not feel bad about it being so late and me just getting up because of the very long day I had yesterday – I needed the sleep. For one thing I went yet again to the play – went first on Friday night, and again last night. Hampshire Shakespeare – Taming of the Shrew and it was FABULOUS!! I was very unsure about it, I’ve heard of it, knew a bit about it, and it never sounded very appealing, being about a feisty young woman getting put “in her place.” But they did a fabulous job, and part was due to the way they gender-bendered it. All the women’s parts were played by men and vice versa, and it really worked. One advantage in fact: usually there are more women available to take roles than men, so they usually have some women in the smaller men’s roles, like pages and such. No such need this time. There are only a handful of women’s roles anyway, and there were plenty of men to take them, and plenty of women for all the usual male roles. Anyway, the actors did a fabulous job (did I say that already?), especially the woman who played Petruchio, Kate’s suitor. I think the second time around it was even better, because although not surprising like the first time, I was able to catch more dialogue, and notice more nuances. Their next play is A Winter’s Tale which I know nothing about; I’ll have to read up.
The rest of my day involved driving driving driving to get L back up to way northern Vermont to meet back up with her friend to continue canoeing. It was straight up 91, nearly to the border of Canada, and a long drive, but not too bad. In fact the drive up was wonderful because I finally had a chance to visit with L which I haven’t had for a long time, not since my visit to Maine in March. I find that we have such interesting conversations and I’m able to talk so freely with her, sharing thoughts and ideas a mile a minute in ways that I cannot do with anyone else. And it is not like either of us hogs the conversation. She seems genuinely interested in what I have to say. With so many other people it is mainly me listening to them. And I end up kind of comatose, as if I can’t think of anything to talk about. Why is it that with L it is not that way? Or is it because I see her so rarely, and if we were together a lot it would be different. After all, even with Mom, when I have not seen her for a long time, I can be quite chatty. It’s just that after a short time, I lose my enthusiasm and stop. Maybe because she really does not seem very interested in whatever I am saying. Am I just not very interesting to most people? Why am I interesting to L? Do I not express myself well and others get frustrated? I so quickly fall into the mode of asking about their stuff and then listening……
Another “interesting” thing (did I already write about this?) – my belly has been feeling cruddy. I felt better yesterday, but that may be because I only ate yogurt, rice cakes and peanut butter for most of the day. Then come evening I ate a doughnut on the road, stew at home and some kit-kat during the play, and this morning I felt crummy again. Well, tomorrow I go to see the gastroenterologist. My primary care doc suggested it because of the test that showed a very small amount of blood in my stool, and now I am glad I am going because of feeling not so good. My biggest worry is that I might have Crohn’s Disease which would obviously suck, but it would be at any rate good to know if it were so. And start to deal with it in whatever way one does.
Today – maybe I can get in some spinning. I actually managed to finish carding the darker, grayish green stuff, so that will be nice to spin. It is a nice day today, so I suppose what I really should do is major cleaning of the sunroom. Oh and more good news - I managed to figure out the quicken stuff so that I have not lost 4 months worth of data entries. Now I just have to catch myself up since March….! So that will be a job. I think I’ll need to do a bit each day and just plug away at it.
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