"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang oft a-gley" (Burns)

.....29 comments?  Incredible! Seems as though you are all just milling around like chickens in a coup.  I am forced to write this blog out of guilt, and it will give you all more room to write comments.  I feel quite honored that you have deigned to feel that something was missing in your lives--primarily the ruminations of Baron Z...ergo a blog to read. So, here it is...but kind of mixed up like porridge in a pot.  The Theatre Arts class is not going the way I expected it would.  I believe the class should concentrate on teaching people how to act and to have skits that they would perform. But all summer, and even now, 95% of what is done in there is to read monologues...and they are mostly done very badly.  Half of them simply read the piece instead of putting some dramatic meaning into it...and when they are dramatic, they fail to project, and their diction is quite sloppy.  The two leaders of the class often fail to offer suggestions as to how the performer may improve.  Once in a while they call on me, and those whom I critique are grateful for the help.  I try to get them to become the character in the monologue and to forget who they are.  Johnny becomes Hamlet-- or Johnny remains Johnny reading Hamlet.  I'm out of there.

.....Another disappointment is the poetry class I wanted to teach. It was fully advertised in the Huntington Lake's newsletter.  One person out of this whole community registered.  Since there are about 5000 people living here I thought the odds were very good that at least 12-15 might register.  You would think there would be a goodly number of educated residents who would enjoy discussing poems, and perhaps writing or reading some of their own poetry, but the thought perished flatly like Priapus without viagra.  

.....The  next disappointment was the loss of the House by Democrats.  Do the people of this country really want the Health bill to be repealed?  No president before Obama was able to accomplish this attempt to provide health care to anyone in need of it in America. Was the passage of this bill really a reason to put the Republican party of No into power?  And the President's speech in Tucson last night was inspiring.  At least to me it was.  And  the someones out there who do not believe that this terrible tragedy was politically motivated is naive.  Is there also someone out there who can speak as eloquently and meaningfully as Obama can?  And why was the bill to allow immigrants born in this country defeated?  There are kids who know no other country, kids who would like to serve this country in the military, kids who are college graduates, kids who would like to vote.  Kids with ideas that would benefit all of us.  Ah, well--what is, is, as it is said.  I learned this on Tweeter, or whatever it's called.