Watching:

• in the middle of the second season of Tennant as Doctor Who with The Child
• just starting the second season of Rome all by myself–I love Netflix! It said there would be a long wait for it, but it was pulled straight off the top of my queue.

Reading:

• finished HP4 (Triwizard)–Oh, yes, there were some major clues and quite a bit o’ foreshadowing going on in this one! I didn’t find Hermione’s SPEW quite as grating on this reading, but the Hermione-Ron relationship still doesn’t seem like a likely outcome here, even with Krum and all that. (Maybe the fourth time through for me, as I’ve re-read the series each time in anticipation of a new book, and now I’m re-re-reading after having completed the whole thing.)
• starting HP5 (Order of the Phoenix)

Attending:

• “Comedy of Errors” last Thursday in Winedale
• “Measure for Measure” on Wednesday at Central Market
• So not really attending, but I’ll soon be watching Branaugh’s “Hamlet,”which I truly love. I’m so excited that it’s finally on DVD. Maybe we’ll have a compare and contrast marathon of that one and the Ethan Hawke version, which has fabulous age-appropriate casting.

And stretching the notion of a series a bit further: In the series of sneak peeks offered to local film geeks, I saw “Death at a Funeral” last night. A few clichés and far too much spit–truly a gag-inducing quantity of spit, although I would expect most people to recoil more strongly from the other bodily semi-fluid featured–but otherwise quite good for those of us who love Brit-coms. Firefly/”Serenity” fans will find it amusing that Tudyk has an accent at the beginning, but seems to lose it after his character starts hallucinating.