A List of Beautiful Things (March 2014 Edition)
1. The show is over.
Phew. Quel relief. ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT RUN all told (she says, still spitting out bits of the furniture she's been teething on). But I am so glad it is over.
2. Over the past few weeks, we had Mir and Alfredo over from China and New York respectively, then Katie from Chicago, and now Patty and Moosher are here to stay with us a few months. Next week my father is also visiting. And work is picking up.
3. I auditioned for Cymbeline yesterday. The point is not to be rehearsing for anything until May, so I can finish my novel (see below), but Cymbeline is a late summer show. And it's the SH'PEARE, MAN. How could I resist?
"Fear no more the heat o' the sun, nor the furious winter's rages..."
4. I revised Chapter 17 today. I have made a new writing schedule. Basically, on all the days I have regular work, I am going to do writing work, during the hours I used to be rehearsing. If THAT doesn't work, I will try something different.
5. I went for a long walk. I took a nap. I watched a very silly movie, with a great deal of violence and demons and tongue-in-cheek humor (CONSTANTINE! It had been TOO LONG! Or maybe just long enough). It was a good day off.
6. Last week - was it just last week - Erica Mohr took Anne Flammang and me to see ONCE at the Schubert Theatre in New Haven. I'd never seen the film. I knew only the vaguest shape of the story. It started with a full-blown céilí onstage, with an open bar for the audience. I wanted to dance down the aisles. As it was, I was bouncing in my seat quite dangerously for the first twenty minutes or so.
My front row center seat.
7. I then rented the movie ONCE and cursed and cried and had to make spaghetti to get over myself.
8. Today it was 44 degrees.
9. I wrote a very funny, very bawdy song called "Ivan Icarus."
10. I wrote a very funny, very bawdy story, but think perhaps I ought to publish it under a different name. Er.
Ten is good, right?
Ten is good.