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Today is September 11th. Where I was doesn’t matter. So don’t do any reading here today. Maybe read this instead.

Later, I’ll tell you about the man on my train this morning. That’s a pretty good story.

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Blogging makes me anxious because I feel like I’m writing on water. And yet, that’s not slippery enough. I’ll go back to the digestive metaphor from above by comparing blogging to toilet paper: an infinite cyber-spool of single-column commentary, made to be ripped off and ( Read more... )

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I’ve had a wonderful, exhausting, several days. From Thursday til Today - Today is a work day, the only upside being that I have put a Broadway station on my Pandora and I’m geeking out quietly at my desk. I truly do love musical theater and show tunes. Listening to beautiful ( Read more... )

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i. $$$ - There is a sacrifice that has to be made to do what I love, and most of the time I make that sacrifice without even thinking about it, because there is nothing else I would rather do. But every once in a while, I am reminded of the things I am giving up in order to ( Read more... )

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There has been a sudden shift in barometric pressure, and as a result my head is pounding. I cannot see straight, and this combined with two parts excitement and two parts anxiety has made for a real jittery sort of sickness that I’m not sure I can control. It has made me eager ( Read more... )

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Today, I received my syllabus from Chuck Mee, who is my first year playwriting teacher. It’s all very exciting and it looks like it’s going to be an interesting, challenging year full of stuff I’ve never tried to do before, but I wanted to share the end of the e-mail he sent, ( Read more... )

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Beauty, for it’s own sake: is it empty? I got a henna tattoo over the weekend - wanna see? Ok, here, I’ll show you:


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I cannot sleep.

Which is fine, I suppose, because I have a lot of people to keep me company, and they weave in and out and they talk and they beg for attention. But the problem is that, when I am desperate for rest, I do not want to rise and write down the things they say, and ( Read more... )

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i. Much-Needed Answers to Very Big Questions: A friend of mine responded to my post, “The Big Questions”, with answers to said questions, and in doing so he has brought me a few steps closer to garnering the answers I need for myself (you can read his response by clicking here) ( Read more... )

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Success! I finally sat down with Psychomachia (at the eleventh hour, as is my M.O.), and hammered out some of the glaring inconsistencies, added a scene here, a couple lines there, tightened up some typos and replaced leftover old character names with the appropriate new ones. ( Read more... )