Got home two hours ago, feeling utterly miserable after a frustrating day-long hang and focus which is going to spill over into tomorrow's dry tech. The only time-efficient way of getting around Touchstone's grid is via rocket pack.

Spent the last half hour re-organizing and re-stocking my stage manager's kit, and it made me weirdly happy.

Also, ( Read more... )

[Addison, one of the ASMs, was going over props tracking with me]
A: You'll catch the halberds as they come off-- those are the long pole-arm things--
E: I know what halberds are.
A: [slightly incredulous look] ...really?
E: I play Dungeons and Dragons.
A: Ahh.

Tomorrow is my first day off in over three weeks. "Excited" does not even begin to cover it :D

I want to talk with the dead. There are so many of them, and most of them are completely dead to me; but some live in my gestures and in the shape of my spine, in the way I smoke and in the way I make love.

-- Fool's Proof Theatre, Je Suis Dead

BILL: [wanders in with a pillow] I'm having a pillow fight! [thwacks me and Lisa wik pillow and wanders back out again]

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Looking at my calendar just now, I belatedly realize that my next day off is in two and a half weeks. Oops ( Read more... )

( In which I attempt to cover four or so months' activity... )

I have been composing an update in my mind for, on and off, at least a month. I'll have to actually write it down at some point. It is tentatively entitled "A Summery Summary."

But right now, my head is pounding and full of to-do lists, and this week has been just thoroughly exhausting, so it shall have to wait. I do want to resume writing here on a ( Read more... )

GinkaTheMage: Why can't gold just rain from the sky onto theatres?
GinkaTheMage: That would kick ass
petseatthemaster: or maybe this retarded country we live in could accept that art is important for reasons unrelated to how much revenue it can generate for other people.
GinkaTheMage: ...nah, I think the gold thing's probably more likely
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So, this is my life.

Last weekend, T-stone had its annual benefit event, the Young Playwrights' Festival, up at Z. It was my first year involved at all, and I was stage managing (and directing one play) (and it was Cathleen's first year involved, and she was in charge of everything else, AND directed two pieces). Oh lord, what a terrifying ( Read more... )

dear god - reincarnate me as a storm, so i'll never forget to speak my mind

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