The Tempest
R and I went to see a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest by the Seattle Shakespeare Company. We had a good time and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at the play. The company’s space is a small theatre in the Seattle Center House at the Seattle Center and it probably seats 80 people at best and wasn’t completely full. The actors do their production with a fairly minimal set and were probably all of twenty to twenty five feet away from the two of us most of the time. I’ve never seen the Tempest before (only read most of it at various points) and it was good to see it all. The group is doing a production of Twelfth Night and the Taming of the Shrew during their current season as well.
This weekend was fairly easy going. R and I went out to breakfast Saturday morning, something we rarely do with our dietary restrictions these days, and then visited a travel agent to speak about our trip to Greece. We didn’t really get a sense that we were going to get a better rate working with someone so we retreated to home. I wound up buying tickets via Expedia after looking at various options. We’re going for less than $1,500 round trip for both of us (total). That’s not chump change but it’s a lot less than the $2,300 or more that I saw in places. We’ll be there the first two weeks of April and will leave on Easter.
We watched the second half of the long version of the Fellowship of the Ring and semed to get sucked into a lot of movies on TV this weekend. I also finished The Holy by Daniel Quinn this weekend and found it to be quite good. I’m looking to finish Psychohistorical Crisis this week (which I had put down because it is a hardback and a huge book and didn’t want to carry it on the bus). I’ve got a couple of books from the UK from some of my favorite authors there on the way so I can continue to be a Science Fiction snob.
Tonight I get to look forward to a few hours of Greek. I didn’t really study this weekend and class is tomorrow so I’ll be doing homework, reading and making flash cards this evening at home.
I’m still investigating schools for possible Graduate work. Classics at the University of Washington seems to be clearly out. I e-mailed the only prof with interests even related to my own and he just passed me off to the chair of the department with the addition of the comment that they normally only take people with a bachelor’s in Classics. Since mine is Cultural Anthropology and he also hinted about more than two years in both Latin and Greek (which doesn’t really match what was learning there) to get in, I’m thinking Religious Studies more and more. I was hoping to find a good program here in Seattle since R is looking at going to Graduate school at Seattle University in the next year or so as well and we have to mesh things between us.
