Today I bought myself 3 new pairs of earings and Beloved. I also got House of Seven Gables out of the library and will finish the Tempest tonight (?). I have to go to work in half an hour which is lame, but I feel like I accomplished a lot today, mowed the lawn, had lunch with kate, played with sidewalk paint chalk. (my new favorite kid thing to do) and I am going to work. the three new pairs of earings were 60$ total, which is a lot. but it brings my earing total up to 8, so I don't feel so bad about it. I was getting a little tired of surgical steel hoops and plain gold studs, so I splurged.
Overall, today was a very good day.
The Tempest is my favorite Shakespeare play, although Othello and Richard III are close second and third. There's just something about the language and the plot that I have always loved. I remember reading it for fun in high school and reciting from it, and my teacher being so impressed bc he didn't even read it till college. what can i say? I'm kind of a big deal...anyways re-reading it now has just re-enforced why I love it. Especially after having read and studied more shakespeare than midsummer, caesar and R&J. It has a lot of depth and the language really is some of his best. I look forward to house of seven gables (Hawthorne yay!) but I'm relishing what I have left of shakespeare. When I finish tempest and abolition of man, I'll have finished 5/12 of my books for the semester. maybe i'll even get to reading some hemingway or kerouac for fun at the end of the summer...but I doubt it. At least I'm really enjoying what I'm reading. :)
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