ritas kleine welt

my first week back from the yookay and it was pretty much a story of success, though not fortune and riches. how could it? i'm making a living in accademia where the money well has usually run dry three semesters ago. but! andrea and i have struggled, read and tied knots into our two brains -- and won in the end. we've read an entire book by foucault and still managed to talk intelligently about it -- and then denounce a great deal of his ideas as pure crap. (there just went my last 5%-likelihood of ever attaining something akin to a carreer in university circles.)

and now to the main attractions: hamlet, jude law, hamlet, the wyndham's theatre, jude law, upcoming new actors who look like cute little hobbits, jude law. have i mentioned lately, that we went to london last week in order to see jude law in hamlet -- playing hamlet?

btw. pretty boy may attrackt very low expectations, due to the very common opinion of, 'how often have you seen film actors successfully take the stage?' (::cough:: tom cruise ::cough::) but jude law aced it! and i knew he would because he had played on a stage before. successfully, may i add. he may attrackt loads of negative press and, well, in some of the cases he deserves it! you just don't go around bonking and impregnating everything that's gets in your path. but that certainly doesn't take away the fact that he's a bloody brilliant actor. angry!hamlet was quite a treat. like being dipped in chocolate and then eaten alive.

and all that matters is having seen jude law FOUR times. collective cheers to mary, ellie and alex -- partners in crime!!!

because access to the web may be limited next week, i just wanted to let you know why it may be a bit more silent than usual on this blog. i'm off to london to enjoy the enrapturing mr law in his role as the great dane. (::points at countown::) i am trying to write this in the most sane manner possible, but..... I'M GOING TO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONDON TO SEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMLET!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!

see you all around at latest in about six days.

this morning i found in one of my trusty LJ communities an entry that announced the cast for the 'hamlet' production with jude law this spring and summer. behind the cut, find the assemlebed key players. and there are going to be some other biggies on the stage besides mr law!

maria's and my harebrained idea (or shall i rather call it brain child?) took an unexpected turn of events today. instead of going on a magical mystery tour to london with our former lecturer but soon to be colleague, jürgen, and a bunch of students, we suddenly found ourselves in the train of sabine the great, owner of credit cards and willing victim and accomplice all rolled into one. which is just as nice. especially that now we don't have to mind the minors! and we can direct our full attention towards the man of the hour!