We really, really, really need to get it together and hire someone at the bloody studio. Clearly, I would much rather hire a new receptionist that a new female teacher, but at this point I will accept either decision. I taught five lessons today, and it made my productivity practically nil, so I ended up staying at work til after 11 PM, and yet ( Read more... )

I got a dress! A really gorgeous, really expensive Latin costume! A comapny named Dore Designs came to the studio to do a trunk show yesterday, and I kind of had a feeling that this was going to be my chance to get my first dress, and that's exactly what happened. It looks like this in terms of the cut. Just imagine it's in coral instead of green, ( Read more... )

It's been a very serene weekend thus far. I went out to New Buffalo yesterday to see Jamie for the first time in over a month, after a serious falling out during Danielle's Week of Idiocy when my job first started. It was really, really good to see him. He looks great (down to 175 lbs. after hitting a high point of 210 and some serious dentistry ( Read more... )

1. A 7 AM-2PM, $10/hr, half-day-on-Fridays job that I interviewed for ages ago via my staffing agency may soon be falling into my lap. Which is crazy, because it solves all the current problems I have with this job, namely the world's shittiest hours and a meager $9/hr. If I take this second job, I will be making the exact same amount of money in a ( Read more... )

I'm going to keep these short, because otherwise I'll be here all night. Let's just say today was fabulous.

1. Got in a great workout at the gym this morning.
2. I must say, I look hot in formal officewear.
3. Because our female teacher is out sick this week, Aaron and the apprentice teacher, Matt, kept using me to try out the follow half of a wedding ( Read more... )

1. Thinking of Henri's death in ABM7 as the perfect audition scene for the Actor's Studio. And thinking of asking Arielle to do the audition with me in May after her tour ends in April. Now I just hope she says yes!

2. Finishing the Studio application, using my CV as my artistic resume (yes!), sending off my headshot, and writing a new personal ( Read more... )

1. Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn won two really important Oscars for Milk tonight (Original Screenplay and Lead Actor), and I'm really proud. Dustin Lance Black was so honored and clearly understood how socially significant the win was. And SEAN PENN had the BEST acceptance speech. First of all, I about feel out of my chair when he opened with ( Read more... )

Still feeling good, so it's time for part two of the St. Louis trilogy!

We got up on Saturday morning and lounged around for a while. (Casey's offstage comment about Amy's geology story still makes me giggle.) After breakfast and lazily getting ready, we decided to go to the mall on Brentwood and spend Amy's giftcards. I haven't been shopping in ( Read more... )

I'm all sweaty from an excellent workout at the gym. Closing in on 150 lbs., which is still sort of unbelievable to me. When I hit that, I'll have officially lost 30 lbs. since moving to St. Louis. Crazy ( Read more... )

1. The end of the locked danger room. That's a huge deal to me, that both I and my parents trust me enough to introduce all that stuff back into my everyday business. Super proud.

2. The serious core workout I did this morning. I love sore abs.

3. KWANZAA DINNER IN 2 HOURS AND 51 MINUTES!