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Lots going on right now!  A little too much actually--


  • A project for Tim's friend who is a playwright

  • Taxes (MUST force myself to get up early tomorrow to go to the tax prep's office, they've been ready to go for weeks)

  • Must take NYC tour guide test so I can become a tour guide for Amada

  • Have to get registered as a federal vendor (a huge pain in the ass--I first registered in OCTOBER and I'm still not showing up in the system)

  • I HAVE to write something in Cliopolitan but whennnn?

  • And a big, BIG thing which I'm not quite ready to announce at large just yet but which is very exciting (!).

So yeah, lots going on!  Now that spring is approaching I am looking forward to visiting DC to see the cherry blossoms--I'm going to stay with my brother and spend some time with the monsters.  I told Stuart I wanted to take the kids to some shows--specifically I'd like to start getting little William interested in Shakespeare, since we had such a lovely chat about it last Thanksgiving.  I looked around what would be playing in DC the weekend I'm planning to visit--so far I found a Voodoo Macbeth, a non-spoken-word, watery production of The Tempest and a puppet version of Peter Pan.  As I think a 7 year old is a *little* young for the violent nihilism of Macbeth (maybe when he's 10 ;) I am very tempted to take him to Tempest--its spectacle might be right up his alley, and they have a "Splash Zone" where we'll get wet :)  But the tickets aren't cheap :/ Luckily my SIL snagged a couple of tickets for my niece and me for Prokofiev's Cinderella at the Washington Ballet, which should be a blast!  Annika is a little tomboy but so was I at that age and I still loved ballet.  I can't wait. Things to look forward to:


  • St. Patrick's Day is in 2 weeks

  • I'm going to visit my brother's family in 3 weeks

  • Easter is in a month (and Game of Thrones!)

  • And in April beginneth The Tales of Caunterbury oops, I mean warm sunny weather and my big, BIG thing which I'm not quite ready to announce just yet.  (Oh, and Mickey's wedding!)

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New Cliopolitan entry (FINALLY), all about the Long Island Express!  Read, comment, click, forward!
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All about medieval treasure! Read, comment, click, forward!
ceebeegee: (I can't take it any more!)
Does anyone here blog on another platform besides LJ? My history blog is on Blogger and it's driving me CRAZY. Like, I actually HATE writing on it--I get very tense, I feel as though I'm fighting it. The problem is the autoformat function--I cannot turn it off. It keeps "adding" tags and code and the interface between the HTML editor and the Rich Text editor is TERRIBLE. It will look one way on Rich Text and then when you go back to HTML, suddenly all this new code has appeared. I try to take it out but it just keeps adding it.

I slave over my entries, trying to get them to look just so and then I post them and they look like garbage. I've tried checking various blogger support boards but no one who actually works for Blogger ever checks in there--just other posters who suggest solutions that doesn't actually work. At this point I'm ready just to move on to another platform--as long as they do not autoformat. I can't go through this again, it's too frustrating.
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The Lambeth Goosestep, all about the very first mashup (musical theater and history)! Read, comment, click, forward!
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New Cliopolitan entry! All about political sex scandals--read, comment, click, forward!
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New Cliopolitan entry! Read, comment, click, forward!

Clio entry

May. 17th, 2011 12:20 am
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New Cliopolitan entry (all about the Royal wedding and attendant issues). Read, comment, click, forward!
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A Fire in Greenwich Village--about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
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The Theater is a Temple... (This is about A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum!)
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I proudly present the debut of my new history blog--Cliopolitan. I concentrate on history but I bring in a lot of other humanities and arts (poetry, theater, etc.) Check it out, read it, "follow" it, comment and experience the transit gloria mundi!

I conceived of this idea last summer--the main purpose of this is as part of a larger effort to stack the deck for my grad school applications as much as possible. But I've also noticed another great side effect--it's forcing me to write a mini-essay every week and getting me back in the habit of focused, tight, purposeful writing.

Some of the entries on history I've written here will reappear there--cleaned up, tighter, with more multi-media. My LJ is more of an emotional dumping ground and and a "this is what's happening with me" and I don't really edit that much what I write here--it's not for a huge audience. But my history blog will be different.

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