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Writer. Yeah, I like that.

Morgan's Journey

I saw a play this afternoon. Yes, I was at work, and no, I don't normally get to see plays during the day. We don't produce plays in the daytime. However, The Northern Lights Theatre Festival is happening, our theatre is one of the venues, and I was able to slip into the auditorium and see this play, "Morgan's Journey", by Robert Morgan and David S. Craig. Robert Morgan plays Morgan; it's more or less a one-man show, and it's a beautiful. There are two other characters - the "stage manager" who pops by at the beginning to set up the action, and a hand-puppet named Herkimer.

It's recommended for ages 4 to adult. Because one of the schools didn't turn up (the teacher forgot to get a bus for them), the audience contained more adults than kids. The little boy in the row in front of me was a pretty, hyperactive blond named Kieran, aged about 8. "That isn't a real clown," he scoffed, when Morgan appeared on the stage. Then, less certainly: "Is he a real clown?" And finally: "No, he isn't a real clown." Kieran watched most of the first five minutes with his back to the stage, and so missed quite a bit of the initial non-verbal action. It didn't matter; as the show got going, he was captivated.

So were most of the others. Okay, I admit it, it made me cry.

Good play.

Too bad I don't get to go to a mid-afternoon show more often.

Various questions and even more various answers

happyminion did this and it looked like fun so here I am.

01. If you had to choose an alias, what would it be?

I wouldn't. I love my own name and identify with it strongly. It practically kills me even to use a pseudonym, though I'm almost comfortable with fajrdrako now.


02. Where were you on 9/11?

At work. All day. Listening to what news I could on the radio and finding what was available on the web.


03. What is your ideal vacation?

The best vacation I ever had was two weeks in Orkney. My ideal vacation would be anywhere with a good castle, or a very ancient site. I have my eye on Malta, Shetland, various parts of England, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland (where I've already been, but I didn't see enough) and my perennial favourite, Italy - especially Sicily. I love islands. Yeah - old islands with castles on them. Would also like to visit the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, and Holy Isle (Lindisfarne) - and let me throw in Iona and the Hebrides while I'm at it.

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Esperanto meeting....

I went to an Esperanto meeting this evening. I've been a member of the local Esperanto club off and on since I was a teenager, though this is the first meeting I've been to in ages - not counting a literature course I took last winter.

I'm not terribly fluent. I should be; I just don't practise enough.

I knew they were having some trouble finding people for the club executive and was somewhat afraid of being roped in, but no, that didn't happen. Instead I got volunteered to make a presentation at the October meeting about what's coming up at the theatre where I work. Yeah, sure, I can do that, I said. Only I said it in Esperanto.

I can. I have months to prepare, right?

I was glad I went to the meeting because I love hearing people talking Esperanto around me. I love the language. I should go more often. At the same time, I had mixed feelings because I wanted to spend the evening working on my historical CLex story, or the Eliot story, or doing a final draft and posting my current story about Martha.

There's never enough time.

At least I got in plenty of exercise today: an hour of kundalini yoga, 15 minutes on the cross-trainer, and walking downtown and back twice - about 8 miles altogether. No wonder I'm tired! That, and a very busy day at work. A day in which my printer broke down again for the second time in a week. Could the faithful old Hewlett-Packard laserjet 400 be getting old?