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Only after reading Alcestis on the way home from work and getting all starry-eyed at the thought of getting back into acting did it occur to me that working on a play this fall (assuming I can pass muster at an audition) might present some conflicts with taking an intensive after-hours science course, something I'm long overdue to pursue. My friends and family know how poorly I get on when my plate gets stacked too high, and at least one's already told me that pursuing both things at once would be a bad idea.

There is room for compromise, perhaps; I could just audit the course, which would make it much less time-consuming, but also less rewarding. Maybe. I dunno yet. I'll talk to my boss about it when he comes back from wherever he is.

Or I could just put the acting thing on hold for another year. But, see... I hate doing that to a oo shiny right after picking it up. Arrgh.

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Fun evening at the House of Roses. Won at many-playered games of Wooly Bully and Evo, got booby prize at Bohnanza, as usual. (Got stuck with the One Cocoa Bean for the entire latter half of play.) Evo victory assisted by following Kyuss' advice to mutate eggishly at the start of the game, and favor tail-kinks later on when going first usually means winning several competitive land-grabs.

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Niece update: she's gonna visit my parents (and, by extension, Ricky) for a few days next week, up in W-ville. Mid-week, so it's not really feasible for me to attend, but she might swing by Boston going to or from; I hope she gets a chance to do so!

Unfortunately, my mom says she still hasn't told her about her father, beyond a vague "he's not in good health". The truth is, he's under a tremendous of self-induced stress over this suddenly impending reunion (as anyone would be), and his reactions will be unpredictable. Already, my mom had to talk him out of dropping ~$200 (way more than he can afford to spend on anything) to hold a "high tea" event in her honor, after he saw an ad for that sort of thing somewhere. Yikes, that would have been... awkward.

Well... I hope whatever happens doesn't turn into a total freakout that scares her permanently away from this side of the family. I think about going up anyway to see if I can serve as a grounding force, but... mmf. Best to wait it out. Maybe maybe. It's just that I have bad visions of never getting to meet this sudden possibility of a sane, young & clueful relative. (I love my parents very much and think my brothers are OK most of the time. But they're all so irrational, as well as between one and two generations older than me, and generally not inhabitants of the same world as I, even though we're all adults now. I know, not a unique situation at all, with family. Still very frustrating.) But: it'll probably work out fine, because my parents are magic at all things social.

We'll see.