Thanksgiving & other things

Happy belated Thanksgiving to all you Statesers! IES took us all out to a dinner at a fancy restaurant yesterday evening...I guess they gave a traditional Thanksgiving menu to the restaurant to see if they could recreate it for us, but it really didn't work at all. It was sort of sadly & not very tasty, really. But if it's the thought that counts, then it was lovely & very nice of them to set the whole thing up anyway.

The night before was our real Thanksgiving-like Thanksgiving: all the theater kids, plus a couple extra (Charlotte, our french flatmate, & John, Lee's boy) all gathered in one of the Leeson St apartments & we all brought various kinds of food. There was cold-cut meats & dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, stuffing, mashed potatoes & sweet potatoes, mac & cheese, green beans, apple pie, pecan pie, fruit salad, I can't remember it all. It was fantastic, & loud & crazy & we all ate a LOT, & then played Mafia a couple times. That was really like Thanksgiving.

I realized that I haven't written in here at all about the plays I've been seeing, since I've mostly been posting photo-elaborated adventures. Well, I'm sorry about that... I won't try to catch up on any ones before, but I will mention that on Tuesday we saw "Improbable Frequency" which is a hilarious musical satire, written almost entirely in rhyming verse, about Ireland's neutrality during WWII. I know, that sounds weird--but it was so funny! Full of bad puns, overflowing with wordplay, with spies and mad scientists and costume changes (& character changes) every thirty seconds. It was fantastic. I'm glad I liked it, because I have to write a review/performance analysis for class about it (although it might be easier to critique a play I hated...). I'm not really thrilled about writing papers; the next batch is coming up soon. Oh well. I'll get through them.

This weekend will be spent in Dublin, but hopefully with some interesting things going on, so I might post a bit later on. But next weekend a whole passel of us is going up to see Belfast, Giant's Causeway, & Derry! I'm very excited to see Northern Ireland.... so expect photos & adventures from that!

Right. Back to my paper...