Things that have been happening lately:

• Awesome visits from out-of-town friends (with more on the schedule).
• One band gig. Not a lot of audience, but some nice photos. Next one is Sunday evening, Sept. 29 -- watch this space!
• Work is kicking my ass. We have entered crunch mode before start of school. I expect it to be running at high gear from now ( Read more... )

I started my Russian class tonight! It's just a 6-week mini-course, but should be enough to wrap my brain around some stuff. Tonight was all about learning to decode the alphabet. That will provide plenty of fodder for practice (the instructor suggested half an hour every day if we want to make good progress). I left with that delightful "my brain ( Read more... )

Mikado is officially over. It's been a total blast to work on. Plus, I made a pro blog post over the weekend about my program design work (which, if I may say so, was very well received) for this production: Designs for the Blue Hill Troupe’s 2013 Mikado

justom's class is having its LA Showcase performances today, starting in just a few hours (2pm PDT ( Read more... )

Posting the upcoming calendar a little early, in part to plug the concert in which I'm singing this Friday night (March 1).

Also, MuffinButtons.com will be vending at Lunacon, March 15-17!

Other priorities for the coming month:
* Get the Blue Hill Troupe's Mikado program off to press ( Read more... )

This coming Sunday is a major work event for which my entire department is working late nights all week trying to get ready.

The weekend after that is Arisia, when I'll be working 9-hour days at the MuffinButtons vendor table. I am super excited about this, but have also decided that my priority outside of vending hours will be... going to sleep ( Read more... )

10 goals from 2012 ( cf. original list: LJ | DW )
( A mixed bag, but overall, progress was made. )

Yeah, well, so. I pulled together a bunch of old material in the first few days of November, did a bunch of timeline research for the year(s) I intend to set the story, and started framing out an outline of scenes. But I got lazy/complacent/"busy" after that, and haven't done much more since. ( excuses, excuses )

I am going to try to get back on the wagon of posting short snippets or individual thoughts to LJ every day or two, rather than wait until I build up a "whole entry" about some more involved topic. (Three things make a post? as magid says ( Read more... )

Wow, nothing like four days of travel to knock me right off the LJ wagon. (Work conference in DC the end of last week, then a whirlwind Boston trip where I never got farther than 100yds north of South Station ( Read more... )

Pro tip: Crossposting from Dreamwidth requires different syntax for LJ user links. But it works, it works!

Anyway.

Ten achievements of 2011: ( 2011 was the year I... )