— And so ends my first week working at The New York Times<\/i>. It’s been great so far, and super-interesting working in that building! To get to HR I had to walk through the main “news room.” I admit. I got goosebumps at the spectacular sight. But my job is good, I love the team I’m working with, and I love my New York Times<\/i> badge. Very glad to have steady work (for a time, anyway, as long as this project lasts.) <\/p>\n
— I’ve been trucking along with my Shakespeare Chronological Reading project. I’m up to Antony and Cleopatra<\/i>. I enjoy it so much. This is my second time doing this, and it does take a long time, but it’s well worth it and I highly recommend it. <\/p>\n
— I’m having surgery (sort of – let’s say a “procedure” to make it sound super-scary) on June 16. Bloomsday. This will be the first year I miss my Bloomsday celebration down on Wall Street and I’m upset about it. But I’ve been dealing with this health problem for so long, I just didn’t feel I could postpone the damn thing. So hopefully Molly Bloom’s positive ringing words that close out Ulysses<\/i> will be with me on June 16. And that’s not even the end of it. After THAT, I will have to have the REAL procedure. It’s a drag. And I don’t have anyone to take care of me, so Mum is coming down to do that (very grateful). Ah, Bloomsday celebrants, I will miss thee. <\/p>\n
— Speaking of the “ineluctable modality of the visible,” I got new glasses that make me look like a naughty-minx librarian (which is basically the essence of my personality) and I am very pleased with them. Also: I can SEE now. My eyes have also had all kinds of problems recently. Seriously, the health issues … they proliferate. I also have tendonitis and am now attending physical therapy in this wacko warehouse out in Jersey somewhere, where five Jersey-Boy goombahs (who are so kindly, so great) pound me, and work me, and pummel me, and throw me around, all as Judge Judy episodes play on the huge TV in the corner. I would like to go hang out there all day, forever, tendonitis or now. I am seeing some progress in my shoulder. Meaning: I can move my right arm now. <\/p>\n
— I sound like an old biddy talking about my health issues. I can own that. <\/p>\n
— Have been seeing a lot of good movies. Siberiade<\/i>, for example. It’s in four parts (I’ve only seen the first two parts). I can’t believe I have missed this one. It’s gorgeous film-making, and tells the story of the 20th-century in Russia through the rising\/falling fortunes of one small village in Siberia. Fantastic. Unforgettable images and characters.<\/p>\n
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