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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
12:29 am	eesh Our last two rehearsals got rained out. It's pretty obnoxious; we open TOMORROW, we needed those two rehearsals. Sigh. We did get some pretty decent work done tonight, so hopefully tomorrow will go well. I should basically give up any hope of sleeping tonight. On the Good News front, Laurel Mill has tentatively accepted my most recent one-act for the festival this year. Marie will be directing it (yay!), and she's got some pretty cool people in mind. Very exciting. I'm feeling like I have a distinct lack of style. My friend Josie has amazing Goodwill style; she always looks amazing. I go to a thrift store and I can't find jack. Anyone stylish feel like thrifting with me and saying HEY YOU SHOULD TRY THIS? Or Target-ing / otherwise shopping with me? Also I want a pair of red Mary Janes. That is all. Current Mood: tired Current Music: Futurama (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
12:20 am	Informationish stuffs! I am in a musical. It is called Quilters. It is about prairie women, in short. It's really good. It runs from 2 July to 26 July, Thursdays through Sundays at 8:30, at the Summer Garden Theatre in Annapolis. Tickets are $18, unless you come THIS WEDNESDAY, the 1st, when it's free! FREEEEEE! Directions and stuff are below, if you want to come! Two things before the directions: * The 19 July show is sold out. * WEAR BUG SPRAY, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. ( Below! ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 19th, 2009
12:31 pm	I've been feeling gross and unfit lately, so today Traci and I went to a nearby gym with a guest pass to take a kickboxing class. The teacher was one of our library regulars, and MAN is she a taskmaster. I haven't sweated that much or been that close to fainting in quite awhile. But you know, I feel pretty good right now. Came home, had a sandwich and some juice, am watching tv. At some point I think I'm going to go to the store to pick up stuff for dinner. I live an exciting life. Rehearsal is going okay, but not nearly as well as I'd like. People aren't getting off book, and we open two weeks from yesterday. Um... sheeeeeee-yit. Plagued by bad dreams. But I've got some cool story ideas. Also submitted a one-act to the Laurel one-act festival, so we'll see how that works out. I definitely need to give it a title... Current Mood: accomplished (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
9:45 pm	an entry that is mostly about food Michael and I went to Great Sage for dinner. I'd never been before, and DAMN it was good. We got these yummy spring rolls, with raw cabbage, carrots, cilantro, and peppers, with this great spicy peanut sauce. We each got a "burger" made of black beans and corn, with tempeh bacon, chili aioli, and guacamole on top of some kind of spicy green puree. I had ginger beer to drink, and then for dessert I got possibly the best thing I have ever eaten: a strawberry-pear tart with sage and brown sugar, topped with cinnamon ice cream. The crust was amazing and the ice cream paired perfectly with the tart. Oh man. There's a Roots right next to Great Sage (it's a little shopping center called Conscious Corner, or something), so I went in and got some groceries. It's a good thing I don't live too close to one of those, cos I'd spend like a gazillion dollars a month on food. And I'd like it. That's it. My back hurts, and I have no more food to talk about. Current Mood: sore (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, June 8th, 2009
10:14 pm	before the day is over Happy birthday, audiobitch! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
12:16 am	huh Once M left for rehearsal tonight, I decided that it had been Too Long since I'd written anything, so I sat down and wrote a play. Ten pages, four hours... I don't know that it's actually any good (I have a terrible dread that it's terribly amateurish), but I'm proud of myself for finishing it. Well, almost finishing. Current Mood: productive (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
2:39 pm	things I have learned * As difficult as it is to sing on-key, it is about ten times more difficult to sing and dance at the same time. * My high range is significantly lower than it was in high school. * Fun cakes are expensive, and I will therefore probably never get my Sputnik cake. * I am apparently a pretty good cook. * Gatorade is gross, except when it's ice-cold and I've just finished running. Even then it's not great, but it's pretty refreshing. * Library patrons can be violent as hell. * My potholders are missing. Both of them, at the same time. I just bought more, so I will probably find them today. * Dental surgery for cats is expensive. * But it does help solve the problem of irritability and bad breath. * However, it does nothing to improve drooling (by which I mean, he still drools. A lot). * If Destroyed in Seconds is any indication, the day after my birthday is an incredibly dangerous one. Happy birthday to my wonderful Michael! Happy birthday to the lovely Amy! Happy belated birthday to the delightful amaterasu! Current Mood: content (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 4th, 2009
9:50 pm	A question for all you writers out there: Do you keep a paper journal? Not necessarily a diary, but any sort of journal for ideas or thoughts or feelings? If so, do you find that it helps your writing? Current Mood: curious (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 27th, 2009
11:10 am	spring I think April must have gotten tired of people whining and saying, "Why is it so chilly out? It's APRIL!", and decided to throw us a big old Screw You. Sheesh. Went to see ilyAIMY at the Dogfish Head on Saturday. They were terrific, as always, and so was my food. Also there was beer, which was necessary after the stupid day I had at work. Yesterday was some much-needed retail therapy. I finally - after 13 years! - replaced my Docs, and got a new pair of pants. And since Bath and Body Works is going to stop selling MOP stuff, they've got it at 50% off, so I bought a few bottles. M and I had planned to go see a play at the Strand, but we ended up not going due to hot. Instead, we sat around with MST3K until it was time for me to go to rehearsal. And that was my weekend. Exciting, no? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 20th, 2009
1:57 pm	socialed out Due to rather massive work stress, I took off last Friday and today, giving myself a nice little four-day weekend. Ahhh. Friday was spent with tv and wine, with Michael making dinner (chicken tenders, yum). Saturday we eventually went down to the Metro station to pick up Jim and Christian(n?), thence to Baltimore for dinner at the Abbey Burger, where I'd never eaten before. SO good -- my burger was fresh and juicy, the toppings were plentiful and also fresh, the beer was quite tasty. Afterward we went to the Brewer's Art, where we met up with Brian, Peter, and Mel, as well as some people from Michael's work. It was splendid, if a bit noisy, and after some rather greasy pizza at Never On Sundays, we went home and sacked out. Sunday we arose late and went down to DC with J & C. After a crepe lunch (mine had fresh apples and cheddar and was amazing), we walked to the Mall for the Green Apple festival that celebrates Earth Day. I was tired and over-peopled, so I wasn't really in the mood for listening to Moe., the first band that played, and by the time the Flaming Lips started I was freezing (having not dressed for the weather, as the temperature predictions for the day were off by about 15 degrees) and cranky. We went home, grabbed dinner from Subway, and then went up to play Magic with Peter and rob. The cards were not in my favor, so I didn't do so well. Today started off rainy and gross, and I've spent most of it watching TV. It's less rainy, but still gross, so I'm not sure of my plans. Back to work tomorrow. Boooooo. Current Mood: sleepy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
4:28 pm	Do you like my new sweater? Because I work in a library, and because I've always loved this song, I share with you the literal video for Head Over Heels. Enjoy. Current Mood: exhausted (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
4:07 pm	Tree. Kangaroo. Tree. Kangaroo. Originally uploaded by curiousfjord This is the tree kangaroo that Michael and I saw at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina. It's big and squishy-looking and adorable. There were two of them in the enclosure, and I was so excited to see them - they're very rare and extremely shy, and now all I want is to hug one. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
10:11 pm	need some help Titles of stalker songs the titles of which make it evident they're stalker songs. Go. ETA: I've already got: * I'll Get You * Can't Stand Losing You * Every Breath You Take (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, February 20th, 2009
9:36 pm	!!!! Holy crap! Victor Garber was Jesus from the movie version of Godspell! I knew I knew that name from somewhere! Current Mood: surprised (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
7:42 pm	Wait... we're adopting a turtle? Just had some broccoli and Italian Wedding Soup for supper. Mmm. Nicely satiated. Work is getting kind of interesting. In April, we're switching to a completely new ILS (integrated library system) called Polaris. I'm one of the more tech-savvy people in the system (!!!), so I've been tapped to be a trainer. In a couple of weeks, Martin (librarian from my branch) and I are going around to a couple of other branches in the system to teach people how to do jobs they've known how to do for decades. Yiiiikes. The good part is that our new ILS is amazing and I love it and it's wonderful, so hopefully our enthusiasm will be infectious. On a more fun note: Michael and I planned our vacation last night. I'm so, so excited. We're leaving on the 28th, hopefully to stay with my aunt in Raleigh for a night. Then we're going to Columbia, SC, to see sights and go to this awesome-looking zoo/ botanical garden (the zoo part has penguin feedings!). Then it's off to Charleston for historical things and a B&B and some shrimp and grits. I don't usually like grits, but I had some lobster grits a couple of months ago and they were amazing, so I imagine authentic shrimp and grits would be yummy. Four days of work, and then I'm off for a week and a half. Can I wait? No. Now it's back to my beer, but before I do, I steal from rosewater: - Describe me in one word... just one single word. Positive or negative. - Leave your word in a comment before looking at what words others have used. -Then copy and paste the meme to your journal to find out how people will describe you when limited to one word. Current Mood: excited (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, January 30th, 2009
3:39 pm	job enjoyment, etc While I was driving home from the store today I saw one of those sign guys - you know, the guys who get paid (maybe?) to stand on a corner holding giant signs advertising the openings or closings of various businesses. This fellow seemed to be advertising a just-opening Verizon store, and what's more, he seemed to be enjoying it. Dude was dancing, and fairly elaborately, too - spinning the sign behind his back and over his head, twirling around, etc. People would wave at him, trucks would honk, and every time he would give a thumbs-up, laughing and smiling, and then keep dancing. I wish I could have that much fun at my job, or at least appear to have that much fun. I have a feeling that library patrons would be pretty wigged if the person checking their books out suddenly broke into the Republican Shuffle and wished them a nice day. Maybe I'm underestimating the people who come to my library. -- Got a notice today that people are going to be coming by the apartment to change HVAC filters and install smoke detectors in each bedroom. starting 2 Feb. Near the bottom of the letter it said to cage or secure all pets in a room where the maintenance people won't go. So... what, am I supposed to lock Max in the bathroom every day for two weeks until the people come do their thing? I'd be okay putting him in the bedroom, but they're putting a smoke detector in there, so that leaves the bathroom. How about the maintenance people just be careful not to let the pets out? -- Watched Mirrors the other night with Michael. Apart from one of the more creative death scenes I've ever seen, it wasn't too great. Not bad, but not terribly exciting, either; it was a movie where they try to explain why something's happening, but the explanations don't actually explain anything. They want the ending to Totally Blow Your Freaking Mind Already, but my reaction was more, "Ooo... wait, what?" Still, I do like me some Kiefer Sutherland, so it wasn't a total loss. -- TWoP has a list of people they'd like to see play Batman villains in upcoming installments of the Nolan movies. I don't know who a lot of these people are, but I do agree with some of them. (Not all. I don't think I'd go with their choice for Catwoman, say.) notanarchangelj and I were trying to come up with some more, but coming up kind of short; the only one I could think of was Christopher Eccleston for Mr. Freeze (especially if they included his backstory). TWoP has Ron Perlman slated for Solomon Grundy, but I would also like to peg him for Bane. Any ideas? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
1:10 pm	6 days? Where the hell have I been? Oh, right. I've been at rehearsal. We're coming down to it now, which is kind of a relief. I mean, we're nowhere near ready, but I'm ready to have my weeknights back to myself. Last Friday, for example, I was pretty sure we'd be done by 9:30, which was exciting, because that meant I'd get to go to cacie's shindig. In fact I didn't get out until 11:00, meaning that by the time I arrived it would probably be time to leave. Graaar. Anyway, it's shaping up. Did some much-needed grocery shopping today. Very exciting. What's even more exciting is that it's almost lunchtime. Ooo! Went to My Organic Market for the first time a couple of days ago, and damn, I want to buy everything in it. When I told the cashier that I'd never been there before, she gave me a free reusable bag!... which I stupidly forgot about when I went shopping today. Dangit. I should really try to remember I have a few of those. Okay. Lunchtime. Current Mood: hungry Current Music: shut UP, Horation Caine (Comment on this)
Monday, January 12th, 2009
11:54 am	wusses and meatballs There's a Fitness Center on the first floor of my apartment complex. Two treadmills, two stationary bikes, and then a bunch of weight machines, all of which are at least thirty years old. The treadmills have to have a "safety clip", whatever that is, that you have to sign out from the front desk; I've tried about ten times now, and there's never anyone in the office, no matter when I try. So I use the newer stationary bike (the second one, the older one, doesn't work) and the weight machines. I'm gonna go ahead and proclaim right now that I am a massive wimp. I know it takes a lot of time to work up to, say, a respectable bench-press weight, but damn am I glad there's never anyone else in there when I'm working out. To be honest, I'm okay with my lowish pulldown-bicep-thingy weight, but bench pressing and tricep work? Yikes. Gonna keep working at it, see if I can make it any higher, like, ever. -- I tried a recipe last night from the cookbook that cacie gave Michael and me for Christmas. This time it was Peanut Butter Meatballs, which looked pretty straightforward. I've never had the best luck making meatballs, but I thought I'd try it. Well, no. It doesn't matter how big or small the meatballs are, what I use for a binder, if I let them sit in the fridge, what sort of fat/oil I use to brown them - I can't make decent meatballs. They stick to the pan, or they don't cook through, or they completely disintegrate, or all the onions manage to escape and adhere themselves to the bottom of the pan, and I end up with a mess. All of those happened last night, so I eventually just said "Fuck it" and mooshed them together, so that Michael and I ended up with something about the consistency of spaghetti sauce. It tasted good (though perhaps there was too much peanut butter), but this is ridiculous. Any tips? I'm a pretty good cook, but meatballs are my Waterloo. Current Mood: tired (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 10th, 2009
5:27 pm	tee hee I've been ranting a bit in my last few entries, so here's a story that my coworker Traci told me that made me smile. While she was working a couple of days ago, there was a little boy waiting for his mother to check out some books. He was bouncing a small stuffed animal up and down in the air - she couldn't tell what it was - and quietly singing "Moo, moo, moo, moo." After the transaction finished, the little boy said goodbye, and then held up his stuffed animal. It was a horse. "Horsie says bye bye," said the boy. "Why was Horsie mooing?" asked Traci. The little boy smiled and said, "Horsie is bilingual." (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
6:31 pm	*kaboom* Today has been an insanely confusing, complicated, and frustrating day. I don't really have time to go into all the major reasons why, but I may note them later. Maybe not. Whatever. I would like to share a rant, though, before I make dinner. I got cast in Angel Street around the beginning of December. We didn't start rehearsing until about two weeks after that, giving us a month in which to put this thing together. Not insurmountable, until no one can make rehearsals or they get cancelled at a moment's notice. There are five people in the cast. One of them, Greg, has most of his scenes with me. Just me. He is the most exasperating actor I've ever worked with, and this includes the guy in Much Ado who didn't know his lines until final dress rehearsal. Hard to tell how old he is - 50s, at a guess. He's got a really weird and sometimes inappropriate sense of humor, in the you-don't-know-me-well-enough-to-say-that vein. And he takes FOREVER to block a scene. Really. In the same time that it took Andrew and me to block over a third of the 100-page play, Greg and I managed ten pages. And we have at least thirty together, probably more than that. We got through three last night. Three! We don't have time for this; the opening date of the show is the 23rd, which is just over two weeks away. And we don't have it fully blocked yet. Where a normal person would, if told to cross to the fireplace, scribble "X to fireplace" or something in the margins of his script, Greg writes for forty-five seconds and then asks why he's crossing. If told, "Just move how you want to, and I'll stop you if it's wrong," Greg takes two steps and asks if it's right, or says, "This feels natural, should I do this?" The director emphasizes, "Yeah, keep going, looks good, I'll tell you to stop," and then he takes two more steps and starts talking about it. It's making me crazy. I don't see how we're going to get this done. And I really don't want to look like an idiot onstage, thanks. Okay. Deep breaths. Dinnertime. Current Mood: frustrated (6 Comments |Comment on this)