on crashing mercedes, emotional complexity and sundry other updates

hello everyone. sorry for the delay in writing but life has been a little crazy over here. lots to do and my life feels as if it's just a vicious circle of responding to e-mails, going to rehearsals, reading and class. alas, it's still fun and i'm still quite enjoying it...

i) was in portugal for this past weekend. had an amazing time. lisbon is lovely but not a city i feel a real spiritual connection with. visited a little town outside of lisbon called sintra which is remarkable. a gorgeous old moorish castle and a lovely old royal palace. however, we got bad directions to a restaurant and nearly put a $35,000 Mercedes over a cliff. We came within a foot (where one tire was actually over the ledge) and had to push the car back out - very scary!

ii) why is life never simple? why is that we're just expected to feel and feel and feel some more but all the emotions are life fish hooks- all tangled together and one never manages to isolate them without getting pricked in the process...

iii) i'm in a musical here called falsettos which is taking all of my time up. i play whizzer, a gay squash player who is the boyfriend of a previously married jewish man who is preparing for his son's bar mitvah. the first song of the musical is called "four jews in a room bitching" - it's oh so campy and oh so marvellous!

iv) my seminars are going well but the reading is taxing. as you'll notice from the last post, however, it's paying off in terms of getting my riled up about more things :)

v) i know my face is on the waterloo web site. it's been great for getting e-mails from random old friends. keep them coming :)

cheers all and be back soon...

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