This coming week is the one where all of a sudden pretty much all of the work I had to do this semester disappears, and nothing but finals loom ahead. I find that a vaguely threatening-yet-relieving notion.

I shall probably blog little, run much, and pray more. The infernal tendency of these sorts of weeks is to find myself completely wrapped up in getting things done, which is never the sum of a person. Straining at gnats and tromping obliviously past camels. Or something very like.

You'll forgive my scattered thoughts. I'm still recovering from a variety of adjustments to life's turns-of-events. There's not much more to be said beyond that. I have four or five letters to reply to and a few family members and honorary-family-members to call. Once I've caught them up to date, I expect I shall be more so myself, and perhaps my blog can return to some semblance of ... more directed randomness.

In other news, I had the pleasure of watching Cranford this weekend. Elizabeth Gaskell's complex plots and turns of events (she understood the notion of a hard Providence!), coupled with her delightful arrays of characters, are always a pleasure. I was especially drawn to the characters of Harry Gregson and Edward Carter - the way their unlikely father-son relationship juxtaposed with the tragic frailty of Lady Ludlow's motherly attentions to her absent son was beautifully striking. I shan't go on a massive spoiler-spree; only, if you are fond of British period pieces and the humorous-tragic character sketches of Gaskell and Austen (that run far, far deeper than chick-lit; be ye not disparaging), I think you will enjoy it. (And lest any protest that any selection of films was too narrow, we also (in the last week, not week's end) managed to fit in Silverado and Night at the Museum 2. Let none say we are not diverse.)

Thus ends my post of flighted chatter. But what are you still doing here? Tenth Avenue North has a free song out. Go download it.

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1. Rhoswen Faerie Wrose on April 18, 2011 at 3:18 PM

   Ha ha! I had a Gaskell weekend, myself! :-D
   I watched "Wives and Daughters" and "North and South". I was supposed to get "Crandford", too, but I had to have my parents go to the library for me, and they accidentally grabed "Return to Cranford" instead. :-P
   Very good stuff. ;-P
   Of course, I also had to toss in "Little Dorrit", for good measure. ;-)

    
2. (hannah) on April 18, 2011 at 7:58 PM

   Cranford...I need to see it again. :)
   
   Have you seen the newest Little Dorrit?