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... )

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... )

Ok, so Mom and I are at Kohl's doing our final holiday shopping for Dad, and we decide to just screw around and look at clothes for ourselves from the 70-90% clearance area. I've been dying to get a new black pencil skirt since I lost mine to the flood, and I found a couple of cute black skirts among the super-cheap Kohl's clothes, so I decided to ( Read more... )

1) Staying up very late to watch a Vh1 documentary on the history of sexuality in the U.S.  with Amy and Casey. I wish I'd had more time to study those things in college, because during all the commercials we would have brief, intense intellectual discussions of everything we just saw or I'd fill in some of the gaps in history and theory that the ( Read more... )

Mom got into town yesterday! Hurray! She has this very cute new pixie haircut that makes her look exactly like Jamie Lee Curtis. Apparently she's been hearing that a lot in the last few days, and I couldn't agree more. She got in at about 11 AM, and I came straight from my latest temp agency appointment to pick her up from the airport. We got back ( Read more... )

 Flooding creates all sorts of complications in life. The first is moving Shakespeare Festival from City Park to the auditorium in City High! This require a lot of time, money, and general panic from everyone involved. I'm just thrilled we didn't have to cancel festival altogether, but this situation creates so much drama! Besides that, Dubuque is ( Read more... )

It's a good good good good day. And last night was a good good good good night. Rehearsal was beyond wonderful. I took all those notes about relaxing seriously to heart, and it yielded wonderful results. Abby is crewing the show, so she came to see a crew run last night and had a blast. I keep forgetting that this show isn't just for us: people are ( Read more... )