April Come She Will
or
Shakespeare Month was three months ago!
The hope of receiving the Shakespeare Pop-Up Globe Theatre book has been crushed again. Back-order, re-order, back-order, resubmit… I noticed a charge to The Metropolitan Museum of Art pending on my debit card and became giddy with anticipation. Today I notice the charge has been removed, so I am anticipating another back-order e-mail etc. At this point we are in it for the long haul and I will consider it as material for next year’s Shakespeare month. I know I could get it elsewhere, but The Met offered it to me at half-price and I ordered that inflatable mummy to justify the shipping charges. I want my half-price Shakespeare Pop-Up book!

Here is an example of why, in a discussion of which fictional character do I most identify with, I said Ragtime’s Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Not that I’m planning on blowing up a library or anything.) But, I WANT MY HALF-PRICE BOOK. I could have had it for 3 dollars more than the Met’s half-price, with free shipping, if I had just added it to an Amazon order the other day. But the point is, The Met offered me a half-price book…
And they will get it to me by April. If not ’06, then ’07 or ’08. Whatever.