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george and lennie So often I dwell on things for far too long and I wish that I wouldn't. A prime example would be that I made a bigger issue out of what happened Thursday at work than anyone else did. It seems that I am not the only person that has run into the same problem. Unfortunately the sour mood that began on Thursday morning as a result of it carried over into the night and made me less than receptive to being at work. I just wanted to go back home and sleep. Sadly at times this journal also makes it hard to just let things go. When over two years of my life are just a mouse click away, it is very easy to rehash events over and over. Every once in a while I am so tempted to just delete the entire archives. The past should not be that much a part of my daily life, nor do I want my life to be a flipbook. To be honest, Of Mice and Men, is another of those famous books that I have never read, but I knew enough of the story not to be lost at the play. This doesn't mean that I haven't read Steinbeck. On the contrary I've read at least ten of his books. I just seem to avoid reading the most well known ones such as The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Instead of reading them, I read To A God Unknown and The Wayward Bus. Personally I think that they did a great job with a very well know story and it is hard not to feel for Lennie and George. While I was scanning the crowd as I usually do, I saw a small group of what must have been high school age girls sitting in one section. I had to wonder if this was a class assignment or if they were really that heavily into Steinbeck. I don't think that I was that much into literature or the theater when I was in high school. I had friends in the school play, but that isn't the same as shelling out for season tickets at the Milwaukee Repertory. I have been so horny lately, which was probably why I was scanning the crowd more than usual. Maybe I was looking for someone to date or maybe I was just looking. From what I could see the audience was a mix of older groups with a few hip couples sprinkled here and there to freshen it up a little although I did spy an attractive trio of women that looked about the same age as myself. As to where the trio hid themselves during the intermission, I have no idea. Instead of running into the trio, the troupe of high school girls followed me out into the lobby. Once they were in the lobby, one of them promptly pulled out her cell phone and I had to wonder who she was trying to impress. To me she blatantly screamed out the fact that she was sixteen or seventeen at the most. Then she started talking about her platform shoes and I knew that I had to get as far away from them as possible. I'm not implying that they were following me out into the lobby. What I meant is that they were a little too close for comfort when we exited the theater. Nor do I get much of a thrill in eavesdropping on high school girls.
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