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deborah_c... went food-shopping with marginally-elder daughter, who for once was in a lovely, if slightly exuberant mood and bounced all the way around Tesco
... made lunch, looked after children a little
... took A to see Oedipus, which we both enjoyed
... cooked dinner (Thai beef with cashews and noodles)
... tidied up, put children to bed, made tomorrow's dinner (chicken in red wine)
All fairly insubstantial, but taken as a whole it constitutes a small step back toward normality in my life, which has been rather lacking for a while. It's been nice to have one-to-one time with two of the children, too; I must make sure that I get some time with R tomorrow if at all possible. The cooking is, I think, the first time I've felt up to cooking a proper meal for goodness knows how long -- probably since we came back from our summer holiday -- which felt really good. It's not that I'm looking for approbation, rather that it's something I've always loved doing, but for which I've just not had any kind of energy or motivation for quite some while.
It's a good time to be able to start making some kind of progress, too; Liz is suddenly completely overwhelmed with work, so if I can bear rather more of the load around the house we stand a better chance of both retaining the little sanity we have left... She's just stopped working, having done so for most of the day. I must go and make tomorrow's pudding, and then go and sleep myself -- getting my sleeping patterns back to something a little more conventional would also be a good thing.
Oedipus was wonderful. The whole play had an amazing sense of atmosphere despite the very spartan set. The actor playing Creon particularly managed to bring out a sense of the wonderful lyricism of the Greek language; the chorus was amazingly powerful, almost menacing and dangerous at some moments. I loved the Messenger, too, bringing moments of levity into the darkest moments of the plot, and with such fluency as to be utterly natural in the part. Well done, and thank you to anyone involved who's listening!
... made lunch, looked after children a little
... took A to see Oedipus, which we both enjoyed
... cooked dinner (Thai beef with cashews and noodles)
... tidied up, put children to bed, made tomorrow's dinner (chicken in red wine)
All fairly insubstantial, but taken as a whole it constitutes a small step back toward normality in my life, which has been rather lacking for a while. It's been nice to have one-to-one time with two of the children, too; I must make sure that I get some time with R tomorrow if at all possible. The cooking is, I think, the first time I've felt up to cooking a proper meal for goodness knows how long -- probably since we came back from our summer holiday -- which felt really good. It's not that I'm looking for approbation, rather that it's something I've always loved doing, but for which I've just not had any kind of energy or motivation for quite some while.
It's a good time to be able to start making some kind of progress, too; Liz is suddenly completely overwhelmed with work, so if I can bear rather more of the load around the house we stand a better chance of both retaining the little sanity we have left... She's just stopped working, having done so for most of the day. I must go and make tomorrow's pudding, and then go and sleep myself -- getting my sleeping patterns back to something a little more conventional would also be a good thing.
Oedipus was wonderful. The whole play had an amazing sense of atmosphere despite the very spartan set. The actor playing Creon particularly managed to bring out a sense of the wonderful lyricism of the Greek language; the chorus was amazingly powerful, almost menacing and dangerous at some moments. I loved the Messenger, too, bringing moments of levity into the darkest moments of the plot, and with such fluency as to be utterly natural in the part. Well done, and thank you to anyone involved who's listening!
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Date: 2004-10-17 07:43 am (UTC)Creon was in my year here at Newnham. She gets such an advantage with inflection etc. because she was a fully fledged classical linguist, thus cheating a bit. I loved the way she delivered the line 'the Sphinx was here'.
The Chorus really was excellent - I loved the fact that they did things in proper inflection! Wow!
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Date: 2004-10-17 08:26 pm (UTC)