In Other News

I have decided to read the complete works of Dickens. And by complete--I mean all the novels--not the random in between stuff. I've begun The Pickwick Papers this week and I'm enjoying it. I remember beginning it when I was too young for Dickens, and I didn't understand one word in twenty. But I think I am old enough for Dickens now--old enough to understand when his tongue has been fused to his cheek.

Speaking of old, I am also watching Ian McKellen in King Lear. I am not liking it quite as much as I had hoped I would, but it is still a good waste of time.