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A brand new year
Jan. 3rd, 2018 10:48 pmI'm still wrapping up stuff from the old one. Isn't that how it always is?
I took D. to the eye doctor for another coaching appointment, to give him some confidence in putting in his contact lenses, as he wasn't able to do it at home. After that, we stopped off at the nearest urgent care and got our 'flu shots. These were very long shots. Ten-second shots, D. called them.
Then I went out for pizza with J. They'd just run out of the Krampus cider so he got "wild rose." We bought some groceries and visited some kittens ready for adoption.
I finished rereading Mansfield Park. Much more impressed with it this time through. I couldn't help but think about what a modern adaptation might look like, something like Clueless was for Emma, or Bridget Jones's Diary was for Pride and Prejudice. The real challenge is finding a good modern interpretation for Fanny's scruples and Maria's moral lapse - maybe they'd have to be set in the business world. I couldn't help but picture Edmund as a handsome geek rather than a handsome newly ordained clergyman, with Mary Crawford insisting that he'd be fine if only he would give that up for money (or figure out how to become rich despite it).
I took D. to the eye doctor for another coaching appointment, to give him some confidence in putting in his contact lenses, as he wasn't able to do it at home. After that, we stopped off at the nearest urgent care and got our 'flu shots. These were very long shots. Ten-second shots, D. called them.
Then I went out for pizza with J. They'd just run out of the Krampus cider so he got "wild rose." We bought some groceries and visited some kittens ready for adoption.
I finished rereading Mansfield Park. Much more impressed with it this time through. I couldn't help but think about what a modern adaptation might look like, something like Clueless was for Emma, or Bridget Jones's Diary was for Pride and Prejudice. The real challenge is finding a good modern interpretation for Fanny's scruples and Maria's moral lapse - maybe they'd have to be set in the business world. I couldn't help but picture Edmund as a handsome geek rather than a handsome newly ordained clergyman, with Mary Crawford insisting that he'd be fine if only he would give that up for money (or figure out how to become rich despite it).