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DD's Birthday!
| Wed, 10-26-2005 - 10:47am |
She's 14 today -- where did the years go? Time has passed in such a blur, it seems like just last year she started kindergarten and now she's in high school?? Ooohh, do I feel old! She's growing into such a lovely young lady -- I'm sure proud of her!
Nothing special planned -- we paid for her trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival -- just dinner at a favorite Italian restaurant.
Jules

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Happy Birthday to your DD!
I'm impressed with her (and several other posters kids here) that are into Shakespeare.
My DD is studying his works this year and is struggling and gets frustrated. A few days ago she said, "It's supposed to be written in English. Why the h*** can't he just say what he means!!" It was kind of cute at the time.
She got some guidebook that translates the phrases into modern English which is helping some.
Anyway..hope your DD has a wonderful celebration. I know what you mean about the time flying..
Congratulations to your dd!
The time sure does fly, doesn't it? Have fun with your young lady.......
Happy Birthday!!!!
Sue
Happy Birthday!!!
I talked to her a bit on the teens board, but she doesn't post much because she's so busy with school. I love when she posts though; she always sounds smart and mature. I had no idea she was only 13, I thought she was 15.
Daddio,
We have had the very good fortune of being able to travel quite a bit and were able to take the kids out of school for a week a few years ago and went to London. We spent nearly a whole day at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre that was re-created and re-built in what is thought to be it's original location on the Thames. It was supposed to be a 'quick' stop in our day but both DD and DS were absolutely enthralled -- it WAS very interesting, but us adults were sitting on a bench twiddling our thumbs for quite some time before the kids were finished. I think that's where her interest began!
She confessed that the theatre productions in Oregon were difficult to follow, but she loved the costumes and the pageantry of it all.
I've looked through her literature book and there are a few Shakespeare selections in it. It will be interesting to see how she reacts to them now that she's seen a few of the works on stage.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Wow! That's quite a compliment coming from you -- thanks!
Yup, DD is pretty well consumed with school these days. Although she seems to really be enjoying high school I DO wish she had a little more free time! I found her posting on the teen board a few nights ago so she does get there from time to time and I know she enjoys it.
We have a deal -- I don't go to the teen board to read what she posts and she doesn't come here to read what I post.
Thanks again for your kind words -- I may pass them on to her -- and have a good week!
What a fantastic trip, especially to spark an interest like that! I hope DD can develop the same.
Here's a little Shakespreare thing from yesterday..
We e-mail back and forth when DD gets home from school. Yesterday, I sent her a "quiz". I asked her to interpret a part of Othello. Her reply popped up on my laptop at a very wrong time for me to crack up laughing. My sense of humor is not known for it's normalcy.... This made me laugh all day.
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ok here's the deal dad. Iago's pissed that Cassio got to be lieutenant insteed of himself. Cassios like one of those new Ivy League officers that has no experience in war but gets to order everybody around. Iagos like Lee Marvin in that movie where he really knows what hes doing but never gets promoted. He also thinks that Cassios a weenie because he cant control his wife. (Yeah..right.. the little freak)
So he's going to suck up to Othello and try to get promoted.
Z.Carson ******<daddioe@comcast.net> wrote:
Here’s a quiz for you…
What did Iago say here:
Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city,
In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,
Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,
I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:
But he; as loving his own pride and purposes,
Evades them, with a bombast circumstance
Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;
And, in conclusion,
Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,
'I have already chose my officer.'
And what was he?
Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,
A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;
That never set a squadron in the field,
Nor the division of a battle knows
More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,
Wherein the toged consuls can propose
As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise,
Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:
And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds
Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd
By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,
He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,
And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.
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