*victory dance*
I got the part, I got the part!!
This is gonna be so cool.

I guess I can sing after all, lol!

I am Sheila Kelly, gold digger and all around bad girl extraordinaire!

So... who's gonna come see the show in July?

So, I managed to snag not one, but TWO, callbacks for a show - WOOT!

The Gainesville SCT (Summer Community Theater) rocks and they were holding auditions last night for their July show, Annie Warbucks. Since I moved away, it has been about 14 years since I did anything with them.

I was so nervous when I arrived - there were tons of folks there, ( Read more... )

When I was pregnant with my daughter I really thought I was losing my mind. From forgetfulness that exploded exponentially - I’d often have to wash a load of laundry three or four times because I kept forgetting to put it in the dryer - to mood swings that left me screaming at speeding trucks in crosswalks one moment and sobbing into my salad the ( Read more... )

This explains a lot, lol.

I just took the personality quiz on 43things.com and it turns out I am a "Romantic, risk-taker, self-knower" which sounds about right but that of the 52,263 people who have also taken the quiz...0% are like me. Maybe the counter is broken? Or maybe I am just a freak!

Here...y'all go take it too and tell me if you get 0% ( Read more... )

It's New Years Eve and I am sitting alone at my desk, swilling cheap champagne out of the bottle and thinking about life. What is it about the holiday season that makes me turn so introspective? Right now I’m as determined to finish this bottle of Friexenet by myself as I am to finish my entry for the week so, by the end of one or the other, as Bob ( Read more... )

I love Christmas Eve much more than Christmas Day. I hope yours is full of magic and hope.


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This evening, after dinner, my daughter and I were cleaning off the table and singing Christmas carols. My personal favorite is "Oh, Holy Night" so we did that one, raising our arms dramatically in the air at the "Fall on your knees" part. We like to ham it up when we're performing together.

Then she asked me to sing her the "Twelve Days of ( Read more... )

Tell Me Your Stories

You skip shoeless across your days
Tender soles unscathed by the hot, rough ground.
You climb our fences, swim in our pools,
Laugh at our conventions,
Because you can
Because you should.
Memorandum: Do not try to grow up too fast.

Do not follow in my footsteps yet.
Look over my shoulder and see
The path paved with memories
like ( Read more... )

Since Eve tempted Adam with an apple, women have used seduction to encourage, manipulate, increase their worth, and assert their power. When I was young, I also used sex to heal. My insecurities, my fear of abandonment, my hyperactive psyche, I discovered I could tame them with sex like the lashing of a dominatrix's whip or concubine’s tongue.

( The rest of the story back here (adult themes!) )

Library school teaches you all the theory you need to work at a reference desk, but they forgot to mention one little thing - you’re never fully prepared to work with the public.

I graduated knowing how to hunt down the best resources and how to “get the right book into the hands of the right person” but, when a 14-year-old kid in a bulging ( Read more... )