State of the ME
Hi everyone!
I am still alive! (I have to stop delaying so much between posting that I feel like I have to reassure on that account first thing, I think).
Thank you belatedly but from the bottom of my (quite inflated with joy) heart for all the birthday wishes, virtual gifts and texts from Canada. Nothing much happened on the day, but it still was one of my happiest ever, I felt very loved and appreciated.
Life is incredibly busy at the moment. Not only have we lurched from one (really intensive and large-scale) performance to another (hugely technical and acrobatically difficult) performance, I have gone from teaching during the second semester of the year STRAIGHT into teaching summer school. We have a brand new course called "Puppetry, Animated Film and Gaming" and I'm pretty much responsible for teaching the puppetry component of this. If I remember later I'll share some of the links to the material, it will make you laugh and cry.
Anyway, so I'm kind of working night and day seven days a week at the moment, but Christmas is on the horizon, so I'm holding out for that.
ALSO - AND THIS IS PROBABLY THE HEADLINE NEWS: Tony and I are going to San Francisco in January for a holiday. It's been a really hard year what with the earthquakes and everything (status of house= still a big hole in the ceiling, still a bit hole in the wall, landlord still musing about what to do about that! status of city= still wrecked and largely off limits: they're going to demolish the cathedral :( - status of earthquakes = much quieter, a little shake last night was the first I'd felt for about a month ) so we decided to go to a place where neither of us have been but where both of us wanted to go. I'm very excited, or at least I will be when I get a chance to take a breath. Question: I'm a confident driver. I'm accustomed to driving on the left. Should I hire a car to go up the coast and to see the Redwoods etc or will I crash and run over kittens? There will be more and more questions coming about all aspects of this trip!
UM... My mum is good, she's presently in England visiting the grandchildren. Work is insane. Tony is very busy also (but successfully so, he's been invited to contribute an article to the main journal in his discipline). I'm doing some writing but it feels sloppy and haphazard, so I'm trying to find time in each day to sit with that properly and give it the attention it deserves!
We have a general election coming up. The present PM is a DOUCHE (oh, you wouldn't believe how much!) but will probably get in again no problems, because he's a smiling congenial DOUCHE.
Anyway, I have not even been lurking the last three weeks. So please, tell me about your exciting life events? And sad ones. I will henceforward try and be around more, because I miss it, and you guys give me a perspective and sense of balance that I really lack otherwise and I so notice when I am away from it.
Much love to all and see you HERE, SOON.
I am still alive! (I have to stop delaying so much between posting that I feel like I have to reassure on that account first thing, I think).
Thank you belatedly but from the bottom of my (quite inflated with joy) heart for all the birthday wishes, virtual gifts and texts from Canada. Nothing much happened on the day, but it still was one of my happiest ever, I felt very loved and appreciated.
Life is incredibly busy at the moment. Not only have we lurched from one (really intensive and large-scale) performance to another (hugely technical and acrobatically difficult) performance, I have gone from teaching during the second semester of the year STRAIGHT into teaching summer school. We have a brand new course called "Puppetry, Animated Film and Gaming" and I'm pretty much responsible for teaching the puppetry component of this. If I remember later I'll share some of the links to the material, it will make you laugh and cry.
Anyway, so I'm kind of working night and day seven days a week at the moment, but Christmas is on the horizon, so I'm holding out for that.
ALSO - AND THIS IS PROBABLY THE HEADLINE NEWS: Tony and I are going to San Francisco in January for a holiday. It's been a really hard year what with the earthquakes and everything (status of house= still a big hole in the ceiling, still a bit hole in the wall, landlord still musing about what to do about that! status of city= still wrecked and largely off limits: they're going to demolish the cathedral :( - status of earthquakes = much quieter, a little shake last night was the first I'd felt for about a month ) so we decided to go to a place where neither of us have been but where both of us wanted to go. I'm very excited, or at least I will be when I get a chance to take a breath. Question: I'm a confident driver. I'm accustomed to driving on the left. Should I hire a car to go up the coast and to see the Redwoods etc or will I crash and run over kittens? There will be more and more questions coming about all aspects of this trip!
UM... My mum is good, she's presently in England visiting the grandchildren. Work is insane. Tony is very busy also (but successfully so, he's been invited to contribute an article to the main journal in his discipline). I'm doing some writing but it feels sloppy and haphazard, so I'm trying to find time in each day to sit with that properly and give it the attention it deserves!
We have a general election coming up. The present PM is a DOUCHE (oh, you wouldn't believe how much!) but will probably get in again no problems, because he's a smiling congenial DOUCHE.
Anyway, I have not even been lurking the last three weeks. So please, tell me about your exciting life events? And sad ones. I will henceforward try and be around more, because I miss it, and you guys give me a perspective and sense of balance that I really lack otherwise and I so notice when I am away from it.
Much love to all and see you HERE, SOON.