A week and a half

[anteros_lmc]

It's been a bit of a week and a half here! Lots of good things, lots of not good things, though thankfully things look brighter at the end of the week than they did at the beginning. Sorry I've been tardy with comments, hope to catch up soon. Hope you guys are all fine and dandy? :)



As usual, Archie has an expression for every occasion

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Archie does slightly amused resignation.

I was going to email you today to ask how you were. I had a feeling that you were hip deep in something tricky. I am so pleased that things are looking better now.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Aww thanks sweety. Yes things have been a little tricky to say the least. I finally lost the year long battle I've been having with the university over their plans to make my team and I redundant :( However as of yesterday it's looking hopeful that we'll be able to continue our work at another institution :) Nothing is definite yet but it's looking hopeful.

nodbear and I also had some good news which I'll post about later :)

I've been wanting to drop you a mail all week but I haven't had a chance because of the pesky work business. I managed to get out to the theatre last Friday and went to see a production of Dr Faustus! Needless to say, you were in my thoughts all evening. The production preserved Marlowe's text for the first and third acts but the second act had been updated. The guy who played Faustus was good, though he had a rather strange delivery, however Mephistopheles was played by a Scottish actress called Siobhan Redmond and she was absolutely superb. There's some info about the production here if you're interested.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Faustus is wonderful, isn't it? Funny and soaring and sad all at once. Hard to believe it was written by someone who was not even 30 yet.

Like many, (I believe, like Archie,) I came to love Marlowe by Faustus.

I am eager to hear the good news that you and Nodbear have. She spoke to me earlier about having a Skype sometime around the 11th? Do you think we should?

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Hard to believe it was written by someone who was not even 30 yet.
Incredible. Marlowe clearly lived a lot in those 30 years. It was wonderful just hearing his words spoken on stage. There's such power and fluidity in his writing. And he's also very, very funny. There was a lot of laughter in the theatre in the first couple of acts.

I'm going down to do some work with nodbear on the 11th, so yes, lets try and have a skype call. it would be lovely to catch up :)

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Yay! And Yay for you two. I had a feeling it was something like that. Maybe I can be there next May. I would love to see it. (A year to save up and get my act together? Maybe...

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Oh that would be completely and utterly wonderful if you could come over! There's a whole year between now and next May, do you think it's possible? It would just be the icing on the cake if you could :)