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[kerravonsen]

I am tired and grumpy and cross, and it is NOT MY FAULT if we are late. So there.
ETA: And I'm hungry too.

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[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

::gingerly pets the grumpy Kat::

[kerravonsen]

mrrroeow.

To explain: last night we went to see an amateur production of Medea, in which my sister-in-law was in the title role. When the arrangements were first made, my parents wanted to pick me up at 7:30, but I suggested that wouldn't be early enough. So they said 7:10. Since I normally get home from work about that time, I figured I'd better make it an early start-early leave day, so that at least I could have a chance to have some dinner before I left. I got home at 6:35, to find three messages on the answering machine, each one giving an earlier departure time, until the last one said twenty-to-seven, which at that point was in five minutes! So I rang them up to confirm, and they said, yes, five minutes.

So I grabbed a glass of milk and a bit of jerky as the only dinner I would have, and waited. And waited. As you might note, the post above was posted at 6:45pm. They didn't actually turn up until five minutes after that. Which, if I'd known they were going to be late, I could have had some dinner.

However, it hadn't been their fault, the taxi, which had been ordered for 6:30, was twenty minutes late. Then followed by the impossible task of doing the seatbelts up, which seemed to have been designed for children, because it took about five minutes for the taxi-man to do it up for me, and I was almost choking when it was done -- I think almost the only time in my life I've had to get help doing up a seat-belt.

The play itself was well done, and amazingly relevant for something which was written in the 5th century BC... My sister-in-law was very good. The set was minimalist. The costumes were '50s (including a WWII nurse's uniform for the Nurse) and were in shades of black and white (with a bit of navy and blue-grey), apart from Medea who wore a stunning red satin gown. She also had her hair dyed red, and big red artificial nails on. Very symbolic.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Wow, what a horrid start to the night! Glad you were able to enjoy the play, though. Sounds facinating.

[kerravonsen]

Thanks.
LJ seems to be erratic in posting comments at the moment, alas.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Weird.

[kerravonsen]

I actually meant, LJ notifications are erratic, not postings.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Even wierder. I havn't missed any, though. I don't think.