Goodness, gracious

I went to the see the current play at my college tonight with Sean, and guess who should chance to be there? My ex-boyfriend. The first one. That's especially funny because he goes to SF State now, and just happened to be in town this weekend. Oh, well. We had a pretty good conversation at intermission, if a trifle awkward. Our breakup wasn't painful enough to warrent being rude, so we both stumbled through conversation until I finally started flat-out stuttering. At that point intermission was almost over, so we were saved from further embarrassment.
The show was decent, the acting was decent, the singing was good, but I had trouble suspending my disbelief. I'm not completely sure if it was the acting of certain people, or a few of the choices the director made. Probably a bit of both. It wasn't technically a musical, but there was a lot of singing, and in weird places that didn't make sense to me. If it had been a musical, it wouldn't have been so weird, but they would just drop everything and start singing an Appalacian song. It just struck me as odd. But it did have moments that got me to care.

Nothing much happening.

Okay, not quite, but nothing truly interesting has been going on in my life. Just variations on normal things. Like today I had rehearsal for the play I'm directing (Plays in May). I don't really feel like a director. I just feel like a stage manager who's just helping the actors while the real director stepped out for a sec. I just have to have faith in the actors I have. They certainly know how to act better than I know how to direct, so I'm giving them a pretty free reign.
What else is happening? Oh, I have a cultural anthropology midterm tomorrow, so I should probably start cramming soon (I know most of the stuff, I just need refresh my memory). I got my linguistics midterm back yesterday. Almost a third of the class failed it, and I was proud to get my solid B. Three people got A's, and two of them knew English as a second language... It makes sense, actually. When you learn a second language, you have to learn all the fundamentals of the grammar and all that lovely stuff. I never became very solid on the whole concept of structure trees, or adverbs/adjectives/etc., or all of that. I think I "learned" that in middle school, and I wasn't exactly paying attention. Oh, well, I guess this is the proper class to take if I don't understand the principles of grammar.
Dangit. Give me math any day of the week, and I can generally figure it out. But this? It makes me feel stupid.
Oh, and I have a quiz tomorrow on the book Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. It's a really good book, I enjoyed it. If you haven't read it, you should. It's the true story of how Dana (the author) took time off school at Harvard and became a sailor on a ship that sailed around the Cape all the way to California, at the time when Mexico owned CA. I believe it's considered America's first "classic."
Well, time for me to cram.

Valentine's Day

Wow. This is the first Valentine's Day I'll be spending with someone I love (going out with my mom when we were both single doesn't count). That's gotten me thinking about Sean and my relationship. It's amazing. Sean and I have been together for over nine months now, but it feels like we've been together forever. I mean, forever in a good way, not in the boring "oh my gosh, it's been forever" kind of way. No, I mean forever as in, 'musta known each other in heaven' kinda thing. I don't know if I'm expressing myself the way I want to. Oh, well. It's enough to say that I care about Sean about as much as one human can care for another human being. He seems to feel the same for me, which is always a comforting sign. I'm going to Sac tomorrow afternoon to have a romantic dinner with Sean, since his kitchen is cleaner (and he's a better cook). I'll provide clean-up and beverage. It should be very fun.