A day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Lesson # 14066 May Day
Saw Rent w/ David on Sunday. Planning to go to Martin City Meladrama next week w/ David and Christie & Dylon.
This started out to be a fairly quite week with an equally quite weekend coming up. The only thing of interest that was going to happen was going to see the play RENT with David. He got tickets for this last year as a birthday gift.
As expected the week was quite I had my final exam in the class I was taking. This was a subject that I knew a lot about. This didn't make me less nervous about the class but instead more so because I came into this with a head start, I new that I would not be happy coming out with anything less than an A. For me at this time anything less than an A in any class is not really exceptable. I at this point in time know what it takes to get an A in most classes and know that in the areas that I want to study I should be capable of doing what it will take to get one. So for the last couple of weeks I haven't been consciously worried about my grade but my concern plus other things going on in my life have combined to give me sleeping problems. It's not that I can't go to sleep at night but that I wake up around two and am unable to go back to sleep for a couple of hours. This has been playing havoc with my waking day. Well I went over the material with a study group for a couple of hours before the exam and felt well prepared, I then went in to the exam and choked. The first question was worth 20% of the exam and was on a subject that I should have known inside and out. But I couldn't even remember the most fundamental elements of the question. After taking a few minutes to pull my self back together I went on to answer the other questions and though I know most of them in depth I was barely able to remember the main points of each issue. After answering all of the other questions I went back to the 20 pointer and started to answer it. The answer started to come to me but in fits and starts so that my answer once written down didn't come across as very coherent. Up to this exam I had an A in the class but with my poor showing on the final I might end up with a B. What really bothers me is that I don't know what I could have done differently. I new the material, didn't over study, didn't just memorize it but really knew it, and still at the critical hour I was unable to come through. Well life goes on.
This was a great play! All of the elements were on the nose. The acting the set, singing and directing. My only complaint was the sound and that wasn't the falt of the play but of the venue. We went to see RENT at The Music Hall here in KC. The Music Hall doesn't have the best of sound, neither the space nor the sound system are very good. We had excelent seats with a great view. I wasn't sure if I was going to like the play after hearing the opening song. The music was way to loud and the voices muffeled but I settled in and began to enjoy it more and more as it went on. It was like a movie in french or like a foriegn film with sub titles. When you first start to watch you don't have th automatic comprehension that you would have if it were in english but the longer you watch the less you notice that it isn't in English. RENT may have been in English from the beginning but you sure couldn't tell by what you could hear at the beginning.
I could tell that David was enjoying it also. When the first tragidy struck I thought it was sad but David was sadden enough to have tears in his eyes. I at the time thought that that was a bit much but by the end of the play I too had tears in my eyes. If my review sounds a little convoluted and incoherent let me just say directly: this was a great play and if you get the chance you really should go see it.
