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So on Friday, Brittany and I went to see the Monologues on campus. I haven't seen them put on since 2007, and I was interested to see a totally new cast (to me) put them on, and support a good cause. That, and Brittany'd never seen them before, although she read up on some before the show.

In sum, it was GREAT! The cast was small-ish, about 20 women, and rather more diverse than the old Mary Wash crowd. There were older women in the cast, for one, and a few middle-aged as well. The woman who did The Flood really was in her 70s, and at the end of the show she shared that she was a survivor of both ovarian and uterine cancers, which lent an extra weight to her performance. There were some reinterpretations of familiar monologues, which were either a choice of the cast or of the Monologues, but either way worked spectacularly. The Vagina Workshop was a 5-woman number, and they all went through a basic yoga routine while performing. The lack of standing microphones really made a difference, as did the cast's memorization of lines. Cunt, not my favorite monologue at best and a least favorite at worst, came out on top this time. The woman really owned the piece and turned it into a rich and flavorful spoken-word piece. My Short Skirt was not presented, which made me sad. The girl who did Because He Liked to Look at It managed to squash the best line of the piece ("What are you doing, Bob?!!?") but did so well otherwise that I forgive her. The last piece, Myriam, was good, but felt like it was missing something. Maybe it's just because I've heard so many powerful monologues, and this one didn't feel like it matched up. Or because it didn't seem to really be about her, or about women-specific issues, so much as OMG Haiti Sucks Right Now. Which is a fine topic to cover, and all.... it just felt forced, to me.

All in all, a wonderful evening, with fine company.

With minimal arm-twisting, I've gotten Saturday off (!!!!), and Cine has pleasantly updated their website to show that this film is in fact playing on Saturday like I want it to. And I get paid on Friday! Not tons, certainly, but it takes away the guilt of paying for something like a movie in a theater.

Move was successful and I'm loving it. The room is much bigger, and it comes with a real bed, which means my back might not always hurt so much, maybe? That, and I'm much less likely to be woken up by spiders/cockroaches/palmetto bugs crawling on my face/arm/ through my hair at 6 am. And there's a birdfeeder outside of my window! So Patrick and I can watch the cardinals come and go. Renee came by last night with ready-bake cookies, and she agreed the house is a definite improvement. Plus, it's much closer to campus and downtown; I haven't tried walking here yet, but I love just being able to walk to class and Walker's and such. Now, it is on North Ave, so it's still not a good idea to get plastered and walk home, but for everything else it's good.

In other news, it's AUGUST!! Which means I start classes again in less than a month! Not cool! I was really starting to enjoy Athens in the summer. Also, I still haven't heard back from McCreary or Evans about registering, and tuition's due in less than a week. Really, guys, you need to do some work here. As excited as I am about Introduction to Chinese, I'm not in a master's program to take a 1000 level class and nothing else. It being August also means I need to get my ass in gear with finishing up loan paperwork and AmeriCorps stuff. And maybe I should start thinking about things like my eventual thesis... I should do one of those, yes? And I should have a very clear idea of what I want that thesis to be, even if the department is purging all of the faculty members I would want to serve as thesis advisors and I REALLY don't want to shift over to the College of Education for it. Whining about the improbability of doing LVS won't help, either. I wish they would offer a semantics course, though. I can sink my teeth into some semantics, and would love to blend that with some L2 acquisition research. Case theory is fun, too, and needs me to check those books back out of the library. (really, it's just lots of fun to have papers with NOM written in the margins)