long time no write
The trip to Davis was amazing and fun. I was happy to discover I do not find northern California anywhere near as repulsive as I find LA. I really don't like LA.
Luckily my brother doesn't share my intense dislike as he is there for about a month total taking dance classes and doing dance intensives. He is really growing as a performer and is planning on trying to graduate a semester early so he can concentrate on dance. He is also planning to take a year before college to do an apprenticeship somewhere which would be awesome for him.
My life lately has been hijacked by drag. Shocking I know. We had a big show that someone in town who has done drag with her sister, who is a king from Chicago, set up. Our troupe had three numbers, one was given to one of our femmes to do a burlesque number, we decided to do an Usher song for one and "We both reached for the gun" from chicago for our third. A week and a half before this show we decided to do thriller for a number in another show going on in town. This meant for a really fucking intense month and a half. I was in charge of choreographing the reporters in the chicago number, which took me a bit longer than I would have liked but it got done with some group input. Usher however was not completed until 2 days before we performed. Because we were running things to the wire we had drag practice every night in the last 2 weeks leading up to the show. It was insane.
The end result of this madness is that we have come to the conclusion that we need to revise how we run things and interact with each other to a certain extent. I think it will turn out in the end. Right now I'm somewhere between extatic and ready to pull my hair out because we have decided to do the showcase in IDKE or at least try but htat means our proposal has to be in by Friday which means I've been trying to rush things through so it actually gets done and sent out and it's sort of been a clusterfuck in which I decided to give up my day off and chance to sleep in to watch the e-mail and send out mock proposals for the group so we can decide on a number and have LAura write it up, which is what we agree to last night only to get an e-mail midmorning saying that we should really just meet tomorrow (After laura, our resident write is on a road trip) I found this highly irritating because while I don't mind giving up my day for it if something is going to get done, but I'm not going to sacrifice my day off to the interwebs only to be told that we weren't really going to do it that way, not to mention the schedule changes that were necessary. It seems to have gone well, and I think we have a good number chosen adn Laura is writing it up and we'll all "review" it tomorrow. Bah.
I do like drag, really it is an enjoyable activity and I love my troupe. We just really nee to improve how we communicate and not have big production numbers that are supposed to represent the troupe choreographed by only one person. It gets WAY too stressful for all involved.
I still haven't managed to find a place, but my energy has really been elsewhere. I figure the right place will appear eventually.
And life is looking up, at least this time laura is oing the dishes before she leaves and I watch the kittie monsters.
hmm... I think that concludes this installment, now I just need to try not to wait 2 months before the next one.
Luckily my brother doesn't share my intense dislike as he is there for about a month total taking dance classes and doing dance intensives. He is really growing as a performer and is planning on trying to graduate a semester early so he can concentrate on dance. He is also planning to take a year before college to do an apprenticeship somewhere which would be awesome for him.
My life lately has been hijacked by drag. Shocking I know. We had a big show that someone in town who has done drag with her sister, who is a king from Chicago, set up. Our troupe had three numbers, one was given to one of our femmes to do a burlesque number, we decided to do an Usher song for one and "We both reached for the gun" from chicago for our third. A week and a half before this show we decided to do thriller for a number in another show going on in town. This meant for a really fucking intense month and a half. I was in charge of choreographing the reporters in the chicago number, which took me a bit longer than I would have liked but it got done with some group input. Usher however was not completed until 2 days before we performed. Because we were running things to the wire we had drag practice every night in the last 2 weeks leading up to the show. It was insane.
The end result of this madness is that we have come to the conclusion that we need to revise how we run things and interact with each other to a certain extent. I think it will turn out in the end. Right now I'm somewhere between extatic and ready to pull my hair out because we have decided to do the showcase in IDKE or at least try but htat means our proposal has to be in by Friday which means I've been trying to rush things through so it actually gets done and sent out and it's sort of been a clusterfuck in which I decided to give up my day off and chance to sleep in to watch the e-mail and send out mock proposals for the group so we can decide on a number and have LAura write it up, which is what we agree to last night only to get an e-mail midmorning saying that we should really just meet tomorrow (After laura, our resident write is on a road trip) I found this highly irritating because while I don't mind giving up my day for it if something is going to get done, but I'm not going to sacrifice my day off to the interwebs only to be told that we weren't really going to do it that way, not to mention the schedule changes that were necessary. It seems to have gone well, and I think we have a good number chosen adn Laura is writing it up and we'll all "review" it tomorrow. Bah.
I do like drag, really it is an enjoyable activity and I love my troupe. We just really nee to improve how we communicate and not have big production numbers that are supposed to represent the troupe choreographed by only one person. It gets WAY too stressful for all involved.
I still haven't managed to find a place, but my energy has really been elsewhere. I figure the right place will appear eventually.
And life is looking up, at least this time laura is oing the dishes before she leaves and I watch the kittie monsters.
hmm... I think that concludes this installment, now I just need to try not to wait 2 months before the next one.