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It's been a long time, and I'm avoiding writing on my dissertation, so I figure this is a good way to while away the hours.

A few days ago I went to Harrogate to watch The Pirates of Penzance, performed by the local Harrogate Gilbert & Sullivan Society. Harrogate is a nice, pretty little town. Nice enough that I would live there. Plus it's close to be Leeds and York, so it wouldn't be that hard to get to some decent shopping. (I think about these things when I travel. It's probably a bit odd, but I do it nonetheless.) I got blisters on both feet, since I dressed up a little for the show and wore my dressy shoes for a full 72 hours.

Anyway, the show was nice. Very fun, as that show always is. I think my favorite part was the policemen -- their dancing was hilarious! They got a bit carried away with the sexuality of the show (most of you probably never even thought that G&S were sexual, but in today's world everything is sexual, so ...). And Frederick was just a little camp. (That's a great British word meaning that he seemed a bit gay.) But it was great fun. I kept thinking about the last time I saw that show performed, in Springville with my friend Elizabeth, with more people in the cast than in the audience. Good times!

Other than that ... I've been stressing out the last few days about the upcoming Enrichment night. Much more so than the last few I've done, since February. Last night we had a Presidency meeting, though, and that helped a lot. For one thing, I'm starting to feel like this really is coming to a close, and that makes things much more bearable.

The other day, we took a little church history tour for Institute, which was also fun. We went to Hale, where John Taylor came from, and then drove down to Downham and Chatburn, some tiny little villages where Heber C. Kimball had an especially spiritual missionary experience. When he told Joseph Smith about it later, the Prophet told him that ancient prophets walked on that ground and dedicated that land for the work of the Lord. I thought that was especially interesting, since it's right by Pendle Hill, where the Pendle Witches came from. After that we went to Preston and walked down to the River Ribble, to near the spot where the first baptisms in England took place. No one knows exactly where those baptisms were, but we have a good idea of the general area, and that's where we went. On the way home we stopped for some fish and chips. Yum!

As I said earlier, I am avoiding working on my dissertation, and that's about how that whole thing is going. I was going to go Edinburgh today, but decided to stay home instead. I thought I'd do some work. And have done basically nothing. Nothing productive, that is. So that's pretty much where I am right now.

Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. (3 points)