So . . . I'm killing you -- that's a good thing, right? It means you're enjoying it? Oh, I see. . . .
No, I'm not on a sabbatical. It's just a matter of time. If you're commuting to an office job, and going to the theater anywhere from one to five times a week,you have to cram in everything else in the little remaining time, and sometimes you just end up having to do laundry, wash dishes, sweep up the yard, pay bills etc, not to mention trying to exercise or read, and then it's bedtime.
I have several half-written entries and many more that I hope to post before even I think their shelf-life has expired, but the more I have to write about the less time I have in which to do it; it's the culture-blogger's dilemma.
Haiku are things I can write while doing other things, and they allow me to post daily without sitting down at the computer for long stretches of time that I don't have. Statcounter only tells you so much about who is reading your blog and why, but I have noticed my daily hits have gone up since I started posting daily.
And if you really, really hate the haiku, I do always label them as such so you can avoid them and wait for my fancy titles, which indicate non-haiku materials.
Thank you for the kind words. At least one of the half-written pieces is about an opera (Heggie's 3 Decembers) and I also started one about the upcoming season, but -- and this is a disadvantage to being far from New York -- there actually isn't much opera going on around here now. Well, I should mention for local readers that Berkeley Opera is doing Tales of Hoffman, and I'm hearing good things about it. But there's other theater and music stuff coming up.
When I lived in Arizona, I used to read you and be terribly envious of all the great theatre and music you had access to. Last summer, I moved to Rhode Island and now am within striking distance of an overwhelming amount of culture, which I have been taking advantage of whenever I can scrape the funds together. Hopefully, soon I can become competent enough to blog intelligibly about some of my adventures.
That said, I'm off to Boston tonight to see The Nose by Opera Boston.
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You're killing me in 5-7-5. I enjoy your writing normally. Are you on some kind of sabbatical?
So . . . I'm killing you -- that's a good thing, right? It means you're enjoying it? Oh, I see. . . .
No, I'm not on a sabbatical. It's just a matter of time. If you're commuting to an office job, and going to the theater anywhere from one to five times a week,you have to cram in everything else in the little remaining time, and sometimes you just end up having to do laundry, wash dishes, sweep up the yard, pay bills etc, not to mention trying to exercise or read, and then it's bedtime.
I have several half-written entries and many more that I hope to post before even I think their shelf-life has expired, but the more I have to write about the less time I have in which to do it; it's the culture-blogger's dilemma.
Haiku are things I can write while doing other things, and they allow me to post daily without sitting down at the computer for long stretches of time that I don't have. Statcounter only tells you so much about who is reading your blog and why, but I have noticed my daily hits have gone up since I started posting daily.
And if you really, really hate the haiku, I do always label them as such so you can avoid them and wait for my fancy titles, which indicate non-haiku materials.
No, I enjoy the haiku, just missing a bit some of your profound and entertaining insights into the opera world.
Thank you for the kind words. At least one of the half-written pieces is about an opera (Heggie's 3 Decembers) and I also started one about the upcoming season, but -- and this is a disadvantage to being far from New York -- there actually isn't much opera going on around here now. Well, I should mention for local readers that Berkeley Opera is doing Tales of Hoffman, and I'm hearing good things about it. But there's other theater and music stuff coming up.
When I lived in Arizona, I used to read you and be terribly envious of all the great theatre and music you had access to. Last summer, I moved to Rhode Island and now am within striking distance of an overwhelming amount of culture, which I have been taking advantage of whenever I can scrape the funds together. Hopefully, soon I can become competent enough to blog intelligibly about some of my adventures.
That said, I'm off to Boston tonight to see The Nose by Opera Boston.
I saw on your blog that you were hearing The Nose, so it was my turn to envy you.
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