Oh my gosh, one of the girls recorded this while I was rehearsing over the weekend - please keep in mind that I was learning a part and the male voice you can hear is the M.D ( Read more... )

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Heavens. I haven't updated in forever.
I've got some pics that I wanted to share that I took backstage while in dress rehearsal for 'Dracula' today. We go up tomorrow night and I can't wait - it's a Gothic Steampunk extravaganza; the audiences are gonna love it. (We hope!!)

Poor old Renfield, stuck in Bedlam:

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There's a quiet that falls when the Elgar piece is over, when the actors have exited and the stage lights have faded. It's a quiet that waits in the wings, only taking its cue as the props ladies have finished resetting for the night and the staging crew have swept and tidied away. It waits for the last laugh from the dressing room, the calls of ( Read more... )

I have been pretty busy recently. Lots of things taking up my time and some of it making me very happy. My oldest friend came home from Toronto (she emigrated when we were nine) and she stayed with me for a few days. It was wonderful and hilarious and ultimately heart breaking. *g* We talk on the phone or via social networking when we can and we ( Read more... )

Eeeeeeeeeeeeee! Meet Miss Pepper! She belongs to my brother and his girlfriend. She's an eight week old Shar Pei and she's absolutely gorgeous. I am in love.


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At least, I think it is. I've just come across this random analysis tool that scans your word choice and writing style and compares it with famous authors. It then gives you the closest matching result to your style. First I put in an excerpt from The Velveteen Doctor and got this:


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For sgamadison on her birthday.

I wanted to write you something but the muses weren’t cooperative, so instead I wrote a little diary of fact, mostly because I wanted to say happy birthday and I appreciate having you in my life:

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is ( Read more... )

The view from my window tonight as our stormy skies finally started to settle in time for sunset:


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