Listening to: Meat Loaf- Very Greatest Hits
Reading: Ransom Julie Garwood
Weather: 45 , sunny – hey it’s feeling like WINTER!!
Trivia:The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Cool word: nostrum [n. NOS-trum]
If a medicine contains secret ingredients, is highly recommended by the person who prepared it, and lacks scientific proof that it works, then it might be called a nostrum. A nostrum can also be a questionable scheme or remedy for some vexing problem. Example:
"Senator Harvey's proposal for tax incentives was widely derided as an expensive nostrum."In the days of "patent medicine," there were traveling salesmen all over North America, selling various kinds of mostly ineffective nostrums. The word today implies quackery and fraud, but prior to the nineteenth century its meaning was much more honest.
The word comes from a Latin phrase, "nostrum remedium" (our remedy), and its root meaning is simply "ours." Starting in the early 1600s, medicines were marked with the Latin phrase, to show that they were the unique product of the maker.
No Change
My disposition is still stinky.
I did manage to get my school budget done (that took hours) and also got a few of the loose ends regarding the show tied up.
Why doesn’t my "to do" list look any shorter?
As I write this I’m watching the new television production of "Annie". I don’t like this musical, but what a cast!!!! It is filled with some of the most amazing Broadway performers. Audra McDonald is one of the best actresses around, and has won three Tony awards, in her first three shows (I saw her in "Ragtime" – what a voice!). Alan Cummings is Scottish and won a Tony for his decadent portrayal of the Emcee in the new production of "Cabaret", Kristen Chenowith just won the Tony for "You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown". Victor Garber has been in many many productions. I saw him in several different shows, including as the Devil in "Damn Yankees". He was also Jesus in the movie version of "Godspell". (One of my very favorite shows. I’ve directed two productions of it.) And then there’s Kathy Bates as Miss Hannigan. She is an amazing actress, and I had no idea she could sing. She’s been great. Miss Hannigan is a great part. I had the chance to play it about twelve years ago.
I have to say that I’m enjoying this version of the show. I really disliked it when I saw it on stage, as I had child actors who think that over-singing is the thing to do. Of course that’s the director’s fault.
They even had a clever touch in this show of having Andrea McArdle as one of the NYC newcomers. She was the one who originated the role of Annie twenty years ago.
I’m willing to bet that Matilda will be "Annie" happy the next time I see her.
I do wish I could shake myself out of this feeling that I have. It’s not hormonal either, thankyouverymuch. I wish it were, then it would go away.
If there was some way to make myself feel alive and motivated again, I’d be thrilled to bits.
I still haven’t even written to Michael, and I really should. I just know that I’ll sound whiny and bitchy and he will hate that. I think he just doesn’t know how to handle me if I’m not my usual perky and witty self. Of course what I want him to do is to call me and tell me that I’m a good person. Or to send me a card or something to cheer me.
I have no right to expect any of that. And like a typical male, he’ll never think to do something like that.
Sigh.
Tomorrow looms large as a stressful day. I’ll be doing diagnostic testing most of the day - most of the week actually – so I know it’ll be a long day. I hate testing. I hate writing the testing reports even more.
As I write this they’re singing "Tomorrow" on the television.
Ironic. I’m not loving tomorrow.
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