More snow!

So we did Henry IV Part I yesterday.

Woah, guys, WOAH.

It was that good.

My geeky English major side definitely came out as soon as we took our seats. The stage was amazing and did such a wonderful job of blending the courtly world and the tavern world (a major idea that runs throughout the play). It was so helpful that I had read and throughly discussed the play before I saw it; I vividly remember discussing certain sections of the play so it was neat to see it play out in front of me.

One of the neatest parts is that last semester I wrote a paper on one particular scene (1.2 for anyone who has read the play) for my Shakespeare class. It's where Hal, the Prince of Wales, has a soliloquy where he tells the audience he knows he has been hanging out in the taverns for a bit too long but it's okay because he is just waiting for the right moment to reveal himself. I imagined Hal in a leather jacket with a white undershirt and guess what? That's what the actor was wearing. Maybe not a big deal to you, but I was pretty proud of myself.

Overall, the play was a nice blend of more traditional, Renaissance costumes with a modern flare. When the play finished, Susan knew one of the women who is a part of the company and that friend brought one of the actors to our seats to have a small talk back. It was great to hear from him and to hear what my peers were thinking about the performance.

Whitney and I decided we needed food after the performance and attempted to find St. Patrick's Day food, aka a rueben. We ended up at Good Enough to Eat, a local restaurant up the street from our hotel. Unfortunately, they had already ran out of corned beef (really!) so I had something similar to a rueben. Am still looking for a rueben sandwich in the next couple of days!

After dinner, I wrote a few responses and then went to bed (still trying to feel full strength again!). I felt much better this morning and headed to work.

Work was full of research as I'm still working on building out our veteran pages. I really enjoy it because I get to discover all the neat resources NYPL has and I also expand my own knowledge. Today, I learned so much about the Vietnam War.

When I left the library, a weird rain/snow had begun and when I got home, it was more heavily snowing. I don't know how much we got, but there's definitely a nice white layer on the ground right now!

New York City Fever

Friday started off like usual, I worked at the Paley Center and worked on some projects to wrap up PaleyFest. I then headed home and ordered pizza for the group. Susan arrived and we had our final group meeting (before our final celebration meeting at Susan's in early April). The topic was Shakespeare. Tomorrow we are seing Henry IV Part 1 and next Saturday was are seeing the Japanese Society's performance of Macbeth. While many of the girls are English majors, not all of us knew the plots of these plays.

Being the English major that I am, I know both of these plays very well. I read both of them last semester in my Shakespeare class with Gina. Both are fantastic plays and I'm excited to see them staged. I'll probably geek out but hey, it's acceptable!

Once the meeting was over, I decided to go to sleep a little early because it had been a long week and I was feeling a little under the weather. To make a long story short, I ended up having a pretty serious fever.

Get my title, NYC Fever?

Clever, right?

But never fear, I have wonderful friend named Whitney who has helped me onto the path of getting better. I've done a lot of sleeping and drank a ton of water. I'm currently just resting in bed and catching up on some responses. It should be a pretty lazy weekend.

Weather is still crazy here; it snowed today! Got to love New York! :)