How does one go about learning to be a stage director? On the chance that my singing voice doesn't recover I've been pondering other options, and I realized that I have no idea how to go about even starting to learn stage direction ( Read more... )

I've been going out swing dancing the last several Friday evenings. As anyone who has danced with me can attest, I have two left feet. Nonetheless I'm persevering, and I think I've finally mastered the East Coast basic step. I've been taught the West Coast sugar push, but I've never successfully pulled it off. Maybe this week ( Read more... )

Patience opens on Saturday, March 29. I'll be a stagehand, so if you actually see me on stage then that's probably not a good sign. :)

Rehearsals are accelerating, and my evenings are rapidly filling up. If there seems to be less Dale around for a while, now you know why!

Gary Gygax, the original Dungeon Master, has passed away.

Rest in peace, Gary.

The problem with eating breakfast in a staff room is that any random fellow staff member can stand right next to you and tell you in detail about what's happening in his favourite soap opera, and all you can do about it is eat your eggs more quickly.

Mmm, eggs.

I met with a potential voice teacher today and did all sorts of exercises and evaluations. The verdict is that I can sing scales and do light choral rehearsing, though no performing and certainly no stage work. This is enormously more than I could do a week ago, and I'm delighted!

My first real lesson with her is next Monday up at the university.

I've been struck down by a nasty sinus cold and have to stay home from work. I can barely manage to sit slack-jawed at my computer and gaze at stuff. Fortunately the meds are helping. I have a snuggly housecoat and I had some comforting hot tea.

This morning Ringo arrived. At least there's something nifty at the receiving end of my slack-jawed ( Read more... )

I'm planning to get a new octuple-core computer some time soon. I'd originally planned to name it Otto, after Otto Octavius (aka Doctor Octopus), but I'm off Spider-Man comics just now. Any other nerdy suggestions for a good name for a computer with eight cores?

( Lame. )

I had a great Christmas day. It's been weird this year being completely uninvolved in music, but it has meant that I've had way more free time than I'm used to having in December. Christmas itself had no obligations, and I slept in then hung around with tinfoilgrrl all day. It was relaxed, and included some Doctor Who.

Nice.