it's just past four in the afternoon and i don't think i had better go to the boston ballet, as i'm still only half way through this week's latin translation. i did want very much to see the new lucinda child piece "ten-part suite" but i am horribly worried about work this week and feel i can't possibly run off to boston without having at least finished one piece of work for the weekend. also if i had tickets in hand i could stay here till seven then leave directly for boston but as i have to rush for tickets i would have to be dressed and out the door by 5pm. i could bring my reading with me i suppose, and get dinner in boston, but as i've already got going on the altercatio hadrianii suppose it's best i finished up. also, contemporary ballet pieces tend to be taken up by the sdt very quickly. and at least two of the other pieces on the program are sdt standards. to compensate for missing the ballet there's the dunster open house tonight. theme: french provincial. von is cooking and organising and doing other sorts of bossy things. this is at 8. so if i were very good and finished my latin instead of going to the ballet i will be able to go over to dunster for the feast and proofread von's thesis over dinner. right, she says, tingling with studious zeal and iron resolve.