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Jun. 3rd, 2010 12:46 amRabbit rabbit, June! I am very much looking forward to summer, especially if the weather would just..y'know, be summery. Biking to work in the rain = not the best idea I've ever had, particularly when it only takes about ten more minutes to walk, and I can get slightly less damp that way. Oh Seattle. Your weather is so...weathery.
In other news, I'm back from New York! A while ago! I do this disappearing-from-LJ thing fairly regularly now, apparently. Anyway. New York = lovely, and architecture oh so pretty, and warm, and has TRAINS. Geez, I miss the subway already. The idea of a regularly running and fairly reliable public transit system independent of traffic? GORGEOUS. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and shake some sense into the city council whenever it was that they turned down lightrail thirty-odd years ago. Oh well.
THEATER STUFF
Elsa and I saw A Behanding in Spokane--my only theater I saw there, being both busy and poor*--but it was fascinating. McDonagh's writing seems to be shifting now that he's spending a good deal of time in the States; it felt like his dialogue style was in the middle of a morph from Irish to American. Rather bizarre. Also the play was far less bloody but possibly far more offensive than his others, which is another interesting change. Oh McDonagh.
[*Holy crap half price tickets for "Next to Normal" were sixty-some dollars. Jeeez, New York. I'm not made of cash.]
On the note of theater and analysis, I'm applying for ACT's literary internship...I hear Friday, possibly Monday. I did a day of mental hand-wringing and flittering about and then thought, Oh, you're being particularly idiotic today, just say yes for god's sake. So I did, and went in to talk to Anita Montgomery on Tuesday, and now am waiting in hope!
I have an audition for Stone Soup's generals Sunday night, rehearsals for Styx start Monday (agh, so excited), and I'm helping run SPT's generals next week. Theater on the brain, as always.
PLAGUE BEASTS
I adopted rats! There are two girls, one black named Valentine and one white named Timbo. They are both silly and terrified of my parents, but seem to be adjusting to me okay. Right now they are making a heinous amount of noise above my head, lovely nocturnal beasties that they are. Today I sat on the couch and read for a little while before class and they ran around and snuffled at me and Val tried to eat my jeans. It's good to have animals back in the house.
CIRCUS TRAINING & other artsy stuff
Simonne started a weekly class at Emerald City, which means higher ceilings, which means we can learn terrifying things instead of mildly scary things, oh goody. I tried double-star drop last week, totally bungled it, and didn't try again this week--but I did spend all class training on all the things you need to be good at before you can really do double-star. I just want to get there so I don't ever have to do single-star again because jeez, that one hurts a lot.
I'm getting stronger--it's slow going (hey, lady, maybe if you did any physical training other days of the week?), but it's so fantastic. I want to do circus things all the time! I saw a lot of circusy street performers at Folklife, and realized the only bad thing about aerial is that it's sort of...not portable, as a skill. I mean, I can't aerial on the street for show like you could juggle. Oh well-just means I'll have to learn something else, too.
Speaking of Folklife, Jamie Laval is my hero and Bowin Smoke is breathtaking and that's that.
Also I miss dancing and am thinking about heading back to contra on Fridays...? Salsa, too, I promised the Nathan Hale kids we'd go. And ballet class starts soon, every Wednesday morning this summer! Ooo, I am going to be so danceriffic. And yes, that is a word.
DOCTOR WHO
Still totally obsessed. Finally watched last week's episode, all I can say is OH MY GOD RORY. WHY. ALSO, TARDIS SIGN WHAT? THIS IS NOT GOOD.
Okay, this is becoming long and ridiculous so I should go sleep (I just caught up on Glee, too). Oh, lj...you are such a weird space to write rambles. Hello again.
In other news, I'm back from New York! A while ago! I do this disappearing-from-LJ thing fairly regularly now, apparently. Anyway. New York = lovely, and architecture oh so pretty, and warm, and has TRAINS. Geez, I miss the subway already. The idea of a regularly running and fairly reliable public transit system independent of traffic? GORGEOUS. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and shake some sense into the city council whenever it was that they turned down lightrail thirty-odd years ago. Oh well.
THEATER STUFF
Elsa and I saw A Behanding in Spokane--my only theater I saw there, being both busy and poor*--but it was fascinating. McDonagh's writing seems to be shifting now that he's spending a good deal of time in the States; it felt like his dialogue style was in the middle of a morph from Irish to American. Rather bizarre. Also the play was far less bloody but possibly far more offensive than his others, which is another interesting change. Oh McDonagh.
[*Holy crap half price tickets for "Next to Normal" were sixty-some dollars. Jeeez, New York. I'm not made of cash.]
On the note of theater and analysis, I'm applying for ACT's literary internship...I hear Friday, possibly Monday. I did a day of mental hand-wringing and flittering about and then thought, Oh, you're being particularly idiotic today, just say yes for god's sake. So I did, and went in to talk to Anita Montgomery on Tuesday, and now am waiting in hope!
I have an audition for Stone Soup's generals Sunday night, rehearsals for Styx start Monday (agh, so excited), and I'm helping run SPT's generals next week. Theater on the brain, as always.
PLAGUE BEASTS
I adopted rats! There are two girls, one black named Valentine and one white named Timbo. They are both silly and terrified of my parents, but seem to be adjusting to me okay. Right now they are making a heinous amount of noise above my head, lovely nocturnal beasties that they are. Today I sat on the couch and read for a little while before class and they ran around and snuffled at me and Val tried to eat my jeans. It's good to have animals back in the house.
CIRCUS TRAINING & other artsy stuff
Simonne started a weekly class at Emerald City, which means higher ceilings, which means we can learn terrifying things instead of mildly scary things, oh goody. I tried double-star drop last week, totally bungled it, and didn't try again this week--but I did spend all class training on all the things you need to be good at before you can really do double-star. I just want to get there so I don't ever have to do single-star again because jeez, that one hurts a lot.
I'm getting stronger--it's slow going (hey, lady, maybe if you did any physical training other days of the week?), but it's so fantastic. I want to do circus things all the time! I saw a lot of circusy street performers at Folklife, and realized the only bad thing about aerial is that it's sort of...not portable, as a skill. I mean, I can't aerial on the street for show like you could juggle. Oh well-just means I'll have to learn something else, too.
Speaking of Folklife, Jamie Laval is my hero and Bowin Smoke is breathtaking and that's that.
Also I miss dancing and am thinking about heading back to contra on Fridays...? Salsa, too, I promised the Nathan Hale kids we'd go. And ballet class starts soon, every Wednesday morning this summer! Ooo, I am going to be so danceriffic. And yes, that is a word.
DOCTOR WHO
Still totally obsessed. Finally watched last week's episode, all I can say is OH MY GOD RORY. WHY. ALSO, TARDIS SIGN WHAT? THIS IS NOT GOOD.
Okay, this is becoming long and ridiculous so I should go sleep (I just caught up on Glee, too). Oh, lj...you are such a weird space to write rambles. Hello again.
