Noise Level

I have had a banner week for finishing things up - I got our taxes done, Ariel and I completed the second round of adoption paperwork - and tonight I sent in my mind numbingly dull community assessment paper. I am happy to report I have the unique talent of revising a paper while my dogs are fighting/playing very loudly, and three boys are playing lego Stars Wars (again, very loudly) in the same room.....I wanted to record the sound but didn't get around to it.

The same roar drives Ariel and My Mother in Law from our house...but I can concentrate on APA formatting. I will probably be deaf very young though.

I started my new job on Wednesday - I didn't do much but follow the other nurse around, but I am still quite jazzed about it. This evening I was reading the review for the last installment of The Coast Of Utopia - Tom Stoppard's 8 hour play about the Russian intellectuals that set the stage for the Revolution. I am so, so sad that I have not been able to see it. I hope that maybe some day they might do a revival of it in Seattle, but I won't hold my breath. It is not very often that I covet cultural happenings elsewhere, but this is definitely one of those times. I am also really looking forward to seeing The Lives of Others - I am sure it will make it to the Olympia Film Society sooner or later.