Shakespeare and the Prime Minister's Wife
I have been a bad blogger.
The week recovering from the busy/crazy weekend was hard as you can imagine. I was really tired all week. I am old. It is true.
Saturday we did the race for the cure. We haven’t been running, so we decided to walk. BIG mistake. It took 1 hour and 20 minutes to walk 3.1 miles because you are walking with 60000 people. The event was great. We got some freebies and then headed to DuPont to go to the Phillips Gallery, which was free. We also got pizza at Pizza Paradiso (all the DC people reading my blog are salivating). I am trying to make my weekends feel like I am on vacation, doing fun things that I enjoy—not chores and errand running (though I do a fair share of that). I am trying to avoid the malls, Target, and grocery stores (though we definitely go) and do more cultural things/outdoors/social things. We have been a lot better about that.
We went to Shakespeare in the park which was really fantastic on Sunday night. For some reason in my head, because it was free, I thought it wouldn’t be as high of quality, but it was really really well done. According to the signage, the Shakespeare theater is one of the world’s top three Shakespeare theaters in the world. That’s what the sign said. The only problem was a power outage left us in the dark. It was unclear when it would come back on; the play was almost over so we decided to go.
We had some bad news Sunday afternoon when I learned my friend Judy’s dad had died. He had been fighting cancer and everything went downhill quickly. Luckily, judy and her whole family were there. We are going to try and go to Cleveland this weekend while her family sits Shiva. The funeral is today.
Last night Ed and I went to the Kennedy Center and saw and interview of Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s wife. She was interviewed by Paula Zahn. The tickets were free through work. Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance to introduce them. Cherie was quite lovely. She is a barrister (lawyer) and has kept her career while raising 4 kids during Blair’s terms as prime minister. She has been railed by the press for many things, but she was as classy as they come. Paula didn’t do a good job in the interview though in my opinion because neither of them ever seemed at ease. It seemed very formal, very chosen answers. Zahn was rarely able to get some truly human stories out of her. Except! Did you know that there is no lock on the prime minister’s bedroom door? Staff has been known to walk in, in the middle of the night with something urgent. NO PRIVACY. Afterwards, there was a reception on the roof deck of the Kennedy Center with some great desserts. We got our picture taken with Cherie (by a photographer; not my own camera unfortunately).
We also had an interesting conversation with my boss, an Australian, and her friend who is also from Australia about how the American culture in general is not on to question. It came up because the prime minister must every week address the opposing parties members of parliament for questioning on why he has said/done what he has done in the last week. It is broadcast publically (actually Ed sometimes watches it on CNN). They believe that the Prime Minister owes it to the people to defend why he does what he does. It is duty as a servant of the people. Can you imagine if in this country if the President had to answer to serious questioning from the opposing party EVERY WEEK? It would be a different world; our history would have changed completely. If the Democrats question anything now, they are described as whiners and unpatriotic. We should learn from our mother counter QUESTIONING IS GOOD (especially when it comes to politics)!
In other news, I finally got some groceries and cooked at home last night. I feel like a new woman.
The week recovering from the busy/crazy weekend was hard as you can imagine. I was really tired all week. I am old. It is true.
Saturday we did the race for the cure. We haven’t been running, so we decided to walk. BIG mistake. It took 1 hour and 20 minutes to walk 3.1 miles because you are walking with 60000 people. The event was great. We got some freebies and then headed to DuPont to go to the Phillips Gallery, which was free. We also got pizza at Pizza Paradiso (all the DC people reading my blog are salivating). I am trying to make my weekends feel like I am on vacation, doing fun things that I enjoy—not chores and errand running (though I do a fair share of that). I am trying to avoid the malls, Target, and grocery stores (though we definitely go) and do more cultural things/outdoors/social things. We have been a lot better about that.
We went to Shakespeare in the park which was really fantastic on Sunday night. For some reason in my head, because it was free, I thought it wouldn’t be as high of quality, but it was really really well done. According to the signage, the Shakespeare theater is one of the world’s top three Shakespeare theaters in the world. That’s what the sign said. The only problem was a power outage left us in the dark. It was unclear when it would come back on; the play was almost over so we decided to go.
We had some bad news Sunday afternoon when I learned my friend Judy’s dad had died. He had been fighting cancer and everything went downhill quickly. Luckily, judy and her whole family were there. We are going to try and go to Cleveland this weekend while her family sits Shiva. The funeral is today.
Last night Ed and I went to the Kennedy Center and saw and interview of Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s wife. She was interviewed by Paula Zahn. The tickets were free through work. Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance to introduce them. Cherie was quite lovely. She is a barrister (lawyer) and has kept her career while raising 4 kids during Blair’s terms as prime minister. She has been railed by the press for many things, but she was as classy as they come. Paula didn’t do a good job in the interview though in my opinion because neither of them ever seemed at ease. It seemed very formal, very chosen answers. Zahn was rarely able to get some truly human stories out of her. Except! Did you know that there is no lock on the prime minister’s bedroom door? Staff has been known to walk in, in the middle of the night with something urgent. NO PRIVACY. Afterwards, there was a reception on the roof deck of the Kennedy Center with some great desserts. We got our picture taken with Cherie (by a photographer; not my own camera unfortunately).
We also had an interesting conversation with my boss, an Australian, and her friend who is also from Australia about how the American culture in general is not on to question. It came up because the prime minister must every week address the opposing parties members of parliament for questioning on why he has said/done what he has done in the last week. It is broadcast publically (actually Ed sometimes watches it on CNN). They believe that the Prime Minister owes it to the people to defend why he does what he does. It is duty as a servant of the people. Can you imagine if in this country if the President had to answer to serious questioning from the opposing party EVERY WEEK? It would be a different world; our history would have changed completely. If the Democrats question anything now, they are described as whiners and unpatriotic. We should learn from our mother counter QUESTIONING IS GOOD (especially when it comes to politics)!
In other news, I finally got some groceries and cooked at home last night. I feel like a new woman.
posted by Angela at
9:50 AM
2 Comments:
I love the parliamentary debates with the Prime Minister. In my writing class this year, our prof showed us a clip of the debates. Thereafter, we had weekly sessions where he would sit down, someone would ask a question, everyone would grumble, and then he'd stand up and address us. Then he'd sit down again, repeat. It was hilarious.
Welcome to Blogger! But you currently have it set so that there can be no anonymous comments. Why? All your xanga buddies are going to have to sign up.
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Ugly Juice, At
8:28 PM
I didn't notice that! Thanks!
okay it should be changed now where anyone can post
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8:14 AM
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