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thelastgoodname noted: [The] [t]hings you don't post about: everything else.
Among a lot of the stuff that I don't talk about... I think I follow the rule of things that one rarely talks about in 'mixed' company - politics and religion.

Politics - this year more so because it's the US election year, and even though I can't vote, I spend a lot of time thinking about it (the candidates, the policies, and the potential fallouts). I'm a lot dismayed by the situation with the Democrat nomination process - inasmuch as there's so much mudslinging going on that one can barely discern whomever the final nominee will be, there'd better be a lot of soap passed around at the convention.

Who knows how I'll be feeling about politics in eight months time, if I'm really dismayed, I might end up writing [bad] political poetry like I did in 2001. :/

Religion - um. I severely disagree with a variety of positions taken by the Pontiff and the Vatican. So much so, that I think I was a lapsed Catholic even before I knew what that phrase meant. My education has been Catholic from JK-3. My university had colleges affiliated with the following: United Church (my college), Roman Catholic (St. Michaels), Presbyterian (Knox College), and the Anglican (Episcopalian) Church (Trinity College). My favourite library was at St. Michaels, while the best place for peace and quiet was at the Trinity Chapel.

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More politics discussion.

If I could vote in the US primaries, I would be voting for Senator Hillary Clinton. I like her policies a bit better than Senator Barack Obama's. As I've noted in other people's journals, if I want speeches about charisma and inspiration and hope, there are whole book shelves and sections of literature and self-hope books at the closest big-box bookstore (Barnes & Noble, or Borders or...).

Do I think the nominees are charismatic? Yes. Do I think they could be inspiring? Yes. Do I care about the policies they're espousing? Yes. According to various websites, my political leanings are actually even more to the left of the Democratic party than most 'left-leaning' folks. I am a fiscal-policy conservative, social-policy liberal.

I'm more than happy to have reasoned and logical discussion about any nominee with anyone as long as it doesn't involve having to hear someone 'justify' their choice with 'just because'. [Yes, I've had some friends tell me that they're voting for 'someone' because 'they're charismatic' or 'inspiring'.]

I'm not sure I'm so much ranting about the politics, as opposed to explaining my own logic. Or maybe the aliens have yet to re-adjust my tinfoil hat.

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irnbruise asked: Since someone already asked about your typical day, what's a typical weekend like for you? And/or, what's an ideal one?

Don't even know why I'm still up and around... I blame it on the expresso brulee and beignets I had earlier this evening. :)

Typical weekend splits into a Saturday and a Sunday.

Saturday - I'll actually sleep past 7.30 to maybe 9? Although this past weekend, I actually didn't start my day until much closer to 12. Depending on whether I have defined afternoon plans, I tend to go out to Chinese tea with the parents, followed by some variation of grocery shopping and general shopping in the afternoon.

Grocery shopping tends to be... pick up a loaf of bread, some milk, and grapes (or other fruits of some sort). General shopping sees me at Costco for an hour or two... picking up magazines and musing about the WD external HDD [which I shall buy one day]. Sometimes I combine the two types of shopping and end up with milk, bread, and fruits all from Costco, along with magazines. :)

Saturday night might be a dinner out with the rest of the family, or else, whatever strikes my fancy. No dinner is fine too. :)

Sunday is much more of my favourite day because I will sleep in until 9, and then go have tea with one of two grandmothers at 11 [two Sundays a month]. The afternoon is open and sometimes nothing is done. :)

Over the two days, I'll do two loads of laundry, and iron it all on Sunday night listening to Sondheim or whatever else is on the music play list.

An ideal weekend? Entirely spent in NYC seeing theatre. ;) From Friday night through to Sunday night, I'd want to spend it all at the theatre. Saturday and Sunday mornings would be at a museum, or else, I'd want to go find knishes. ;D I managed these 'ideal' weekends several times this past year - five shows over a weekend and all that. :)

Playbill: Toronto Hit We Will Rock You Will Close May 11; Canadian Tour Planned

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango...

Although I haven't seen this production, I'm more used to hearing the word fandango in Sondheim's The Miller's Son, or else, being used as a Spelling Bee word at the 25th Annual Puntam County Spelling Bee contest. :)

Toronto Hit We Will Rock You Will Close May 11; Canadian Tour Planned

By Kenneth Jones
12 Mar 2008

The Dora Award-winning musical We Will Rock You, in which 32 songs of Queen energize a futuristic story of a world where music is banned, will close at Toronto's Canon Theatre May 11. It will have played more than a year there.

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