(NB. I have not posted here since the 12th of August! Well, hello friends. I've decided I'm going to come back and at least do as many Things I Love Thursdays as possible, as an exercise in gratitude, regular journaling, and remembering what makes me happy.)
* The Sun! and it's gloriously beautiful, even more so since the weather has been, in that usual Seattle January-February way, grey and moist and grey. It's still cold, but frost is easier to take in the morning when it's sparkling in the sunlight. It makes everything far cheerfuler. More cheerful. Whatever. :)
Also, I have my gmail theme set to the weather; so when it's sunny outside, my email looks bright blue and sunny, and it makes me much happier about checking it.
Being in a show! I'm in it for a total of one minute, and I have no lines--which means this has been a very low stress rehearsal process for me! Ahaha. It's an excerpt of a play, for GhostLight's Battle of the Bards, and it's going to be a wild rushed performance weekend and then a party and then it's over. Mostly I'm just happy to be around theater people (not that I tend not to be, ever), to work with Cozy and Molly and Suzannah, and to be silly. Yes.
*This Literary Internship Thing. This is not a new entry, except for the fact that I haven't even done a TiLT since I started this internship (six months ago, what). This is amazing. I show up to an incredible theater building two days a week; I read scripts and write reports on them (and if they're terrible I get to be as snarky as I like, which is refreshing); I get to talk about theater all the time. Lately my projects have involved a lot of trips to the Central branch of the library, and a lot of image researching online, both of which feed my dramaturgical ego and make me super pleased; I have been hunting down images from Paul Cadmus and Jared French and finding books for Kurt, and then doing general "get me information about 1972 New York City" research for The Prisoner of Second Ave, which included a whole lot of photoessays and images of advertisements which I find fascinating. It just continues awesome.
*Upcoming Valentine's Day. You think I am going to be soppy about boys? Non, ma cherie, I am much looking forward to Sunday and Monday because of snazzy burlesque and a frenchified dive bar. (Okay, the boy is pretty fantastic too, and I will be the first to admit I'm excited to be going to both these events with him.) Sunday night I finally get to see the Atomic Bombshells do their V-day extravaganza at the Triple Door, and I get to go with two other elves! And Monday night Slap & Tickle* are headlining a Valentine's show at the Blue Moon, which they are somehow converting from a divey cave into a romantic getaway. Who knows. I'm baking cupcakes, that's all I know.
[*Slap & Tickle is Tyson and Kate, respectively, two members of the Christmas band I was in. They play washtub base and ukulele. They rock.]
*My new headshot, because I actually really like it and was afraid I would not. I am fairly terrible at photographs, unless I am performing/an elf; I get awkward and then I usually don't like the results, or tend to do the typical thing of seeing everything wrong with each photo instead of what works. And the day of the shoot, I was not very happy with any of them, more because of myself than the photos. But then I slept on it and got advice on which to pick (since I don't trust myself), and the fabulous photographer put it all together, and...I'm surprised to be quite, quite pleased. I feel professional, I do. Now to get those monologues... ahahaha. (Credit to John Ulman for being amazing and making me look like a star.)
And also.... Going to the Harry Potter exhibition on a date with a cute boy;
the cute boy himself (I tend not to write a lot about this sort of stuff, but, um, yay);
my armwarmers that I made by chopping the arms off a striped sweater;
ridiculous speedthroughs in rehearsal;
this picture, which the boy and i found through stumbleupon and for some reason makes me laugh every time;
post-its--I think my organizational skills at both my jobs would fall apart without them;
making vague plans about life and being motivated by them;
did I mention the sunlight?
So, yeah. Welcome back to the journal...things are going well.
xoxo
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