Spoiled Fruit (and Fringe)

While this is not such a big deal in and of itself, it shows that I am operating at much less than my best these days, surely due to a combination of spreading myself too thin, being stressed over taxes and whether I will actually be able to get my Fringe play cast in the next two weeks and just not sleeping enough.  Hopefully things will turn around.

Anyway, I had a meeting in Toronto's East End, so I just worked from home until the meeting.  Afterwards, I thought I might as well drop by work to get the results of an overnight run and ship them off to a junior who is processing them for me.  I also had an event at TPL (though it would have been almost as easy to get there from home as from work).  I thought I should take the opportunity to take some frozen fruit I had bought and drop it off at work, but when I got to work I was so distracted by things (and randomly opened the "wrong" side of my bag) and it was still in my bag when I got to TPL hours later.  I'm rather fortunate that the bag didn't leak, but it was all pretty frustrating.

I was there at the library to see Yann Martel.  The event had been sold out for ages, but the previous evening I took a look and a few tickets had been returned, so I grabbed one.  That meant a long look through boxes in the basement, trying to track down a copy of Life of Pi.  While I was there, I was also looking for my copy of Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man.  I may or may not own a copy of White Teeth, but I am sure I have The Autograph Man.  (I totally forget to look for Teju Cole's Open City, since he is going to be the interviewer at a TPL event next week, and I'm almost sure he will sign books.  So I guess I will go through this whole process again.)  I haven't decided if I will go see Zadie Smith when she comes to Massey Hall.  The tickets are quite expensive for an author reading, and I am pretty sure she won't be signing anything.  But I am still taking it as a bit of a sign that if the book(s) turns up, I'll go see her.  I'm starting to wonder if I should just replace the 3 shelf book case downstairs in the storage area with a 6 shelf bookcase, as I probably could display these books and not have to go hunting all the time for them.

I'll definitely want to go into more detail about the TPL event itself, as Yann is definitely a curious character.  In the end, I bought a copy of his new book Son of Nobody and a new copy of Life of Pi for him to inscribe to my son.

I'll close out by showing the Fringe blurb I put together.  I actually took a new set of photos for the Fringe poster, which I'll start working on.  

As can be seen, I had to go with the actors that have committed so far, though apparently in the on-line version, I can keep adding names.  The dates and times (over at Alumnae Theatre) are actually really good, and I certainly hope that helps me sign up the remaining actors!  More on this soon, I promise!