Ginger's follies, foibles and fixations.
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| You Listen to Me, Mr. Kick-Ass Ginger's follies, foibles and fixations. |
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Saturday, September 14, 2002 Weekend Update My sister is in town, but not here at the moment, since she seems to prefer crashing at her friends' places rather than negotiating the A train at three in the morning. Can't argue with that, really. We saw Edward Albee's The Goat last night, which was apparently Sally Field's Broadway debut. It was fun and intense. I'm not sure about the ending, but then I'm pretty hopeless at offering intelligent critiques of plays. Usually as long as the performances are good I won't nitpick about the play. Thus, Sally Field and Bill Irwin were great-- she reminds me a lot of my mom, and I always think of him as Ham Gravy in Altman's Popeye. The only drawback was, of course, incessantly ringing cell phones long after the pre-show admonishment to shut them off. And some problem with the hard-of-hearing headsets which gave off an awful high-pitched eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee through half the show. Argh! Speaking of noise, Steve informs me that he saw a Liars video (Mr your on fire Mr) on Much Music last night. Our home-boys done good, sniff! In related news, Liars housemate (and former housemate of yours truly) Joe stars in a short film being shown in Williamsburg tonight. There being free wine, I can hardly miss it--and neither can you, if you're around here. Other than that, not much else to report. I'll probably take a shower or something, hang out with my sister, then eventually go back to work. It's just too exciting here in the big city. posted by Ginger | 11:56 AM Friday, September 13, 2002 I know this seems like the only thing I do these days, but here's The Friday Five! 1. What was/is your favorite subject in school? Why? Hmm... I had lots of favorites (I'm a "school" sort of person) but I suppose English, in all of the varying forms it took from grade school through college. It fit me better than most things, me being a pretty verbal person. Also, in college I could find ways to write papers about whatever I was into at the time, namely Twin Peaks. I also wrote a paper praising the feminist sensibility of Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- the movie (which had just come out), not the TV show. 2. Who was your favorite teacher? Why? I had many teachers I loved, but the one who most affectionately comes to mind is Les Whipp, who taught at least two of my English classes in college. He specialized in Shakespeare and Renaissance Lit. He was (and, I hope, still is) a hilarious and extremely kind person. I loved how in each of his classes he'd take a day to explore the Sheldon Art Gallery sculpture garden--he understood the importance of a full and varied liberal arts education. 3. What is your favorite memory of school? One was the botany class I took as a Freshperson at the University. Instead of taking Biology 101 that pretty much everyone took, I figured out that Botany fulfilled the same requirement, and I wouldn't have to dissect anything--I was in a pretty serious animal-rights phase at the time. It was a smallish class, mostly agronomy (i.e. agriculture) and animal-science majors--professional farmers and ranchers-in-training. I had three lab partners, all animal-science majors. So imagine this: three corn-fed, fresh-faced boys from teensy towns and farms in western Nebraska, who planned to slaughter animals for a living like their Pas. And me. Tie-dyed, wild-haired, apartheid-protestin', PETA-joinin', child of hippie parents, "if everyone were vegetarian there would be no hunger or poverty" me. All of us gathered around a table twice a week taking apart flowers and seeds with scalpels. I adored them, it was the best fun, and I got an A+ in the class! 4. What was your favorite recess game? I liked four-square, tetherball, and sledding in winter. But I wasn't very outdoorsy, even at that age. I think I was in the minority of kids who was glad when inclement weather forced us to have recess inside. 5. What did you hate most about school? Truth be told I didn't hate very much. If I could afford to be in school forever I probably would. But aside from the general cruelty of children around the middle-school age, I mostly hated it when teachers had long since lost their feeling for what they were teaching and were just going through the motions. I hated that too often we were taught the "what" but not the "why." posted by Ginger | 12:34 PM Thursday, September 12, 2002 Heard in the Office Yesterday... [cheerfully]: "Happy Twin Towers Day!" The fact that this made most everyone laugh explains a lot about why I like working here. posted by Ginger | 5:08 PM |
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