Multi level marketing people don't get anywhere if they're not willing to exploit everyone they've ever met.

Multi level marketing people don't get anywhere if they're not willing to exploit everyone they've ever met.

Truthiness!

I am in single task mode, which is really tough for a life long multi-tasker. After over 2 years with no issues, over the weekend I started having auras which often precipitate seizure. I had only had the one seizure 2-1/2 years ago, but had the auras for a time after. The last month I have been negligent in self care and paying the price apparently. I need my sleep. Period. No excuses. So I am stepping back and deliberately not over stimulating. So no watching tv, while working, while facebooking, while talking on the phone, while answering questions for people walking up to me. Easier said than done.

If it weren't for the scaring me half to death part worrying about possibly having a seizure the auras would be interesting. Every aroma is pow in your face overwhelming, and the visual aspect makes colors pop so much that watching TV is overwhelming. I had to go train one of my doctors and when I left her office all the cars in the parking lot were super shiny and bright colors. (note I had DH drive me there because I am sane, well not sane enough to stop working but sane enough to not drive)

Anyway, no auras today since I got up this morning so I will continue to take proper care of myself and get my sleep and stuff. A little brain~ma would be a good thing too.

I love your spicy brain, Laura. Please continue to take good care of it.

Straighten up and fly right, Brain of Laura!

Brain~ma for you, Laura. Please be gentle with yourself.

We love Laura's brain. Please handle with care.

Brain~ma to you Laura.

Hamilton thoughts and nit sure where to put them so its here.

I'm nit really that familiar with Broadway musicals so I don't know if this is common but I loved the repetition of phrases not just in the dame song but how certain things would work their way into different characters songs. Unless I'm totally confused and mixing up characters.

But I liked the patterns from the use of words and phrases. And I felt sympathetic towards Aaron Burr by the second listening. I don't know if he should and I don't know his actual reaction to shooting Hamilton.

Burr is totally a sympathetic character --- some people find him more so than Hamilton (I don't, necessarily, but I can see it). Don't think of them as good guy/bad guy --- it's really more, two people with a lot in common, but a few differences in circumstances and temperament put them on increasingly antagonistic paths whether they wanted to be there or not.

It's fucking heartbreaking all around. (In such a good way).

And yes, the whole thing of repeating bits and snippets across different songs is a classic trick, and very few shows do it quite as well as this one.

Musically, those kind of themes are called leitmotifs. They're most associated with opera.

Word-wise, I associate that kind of repetition and wordplay with Sondheim. The different ways Angelica uses "satisfied" or Eliza uses "helpless" or Burr uses "wait".