Maybe someday I'll post more often than quarterly.
I hate hot weather. hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate.
I am getting back into acting again! I have an audition tomorrow for The Man Who Came to Dinner. It's at the Lakewood theatre in Lake Oswego, which Jeff says is one of the best theatres in Portland, so if this turns out to just be audition experience, that's fine - I haven't done anything in three years, after all. But of course I'm hoping to be cast! If this one doesn't work out, there's an audition for The Laramie Project at the end of the month, which I would definitely love to be in on. I'm working on my monologue for the audition tomorrow and I have it memorised, more or less, but I keep tripping over a couple parts. I really hope I can manage to get it right tomorrow. I'm also freaking a bit over what to wear - Jeff (I have been getting so much good advice from him!) says just go with business casual, which I can do, but I look much better in jeans so I wonder if it's okay to wear jeans if they're really nice, really dark wash? I don't know!
Amanda, Kirk, and Blaine moved here about a month and a half ago. The road trip was very exciting, at least for me, but then again I didn't have to do any of the driving. We drove through nine states - Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and Oregon. It was a lot prettier than I expected - Iowa, in particular, surprised me. I was expecting perfectly flat cornfields as far as the eye could see, but it was really nice. Wyoming was beautiful but very, very windy. Nebraska was boring, and I said as much several times during the drive through that state, and so I think Nebraska got upset and gave us a tornado that we barely missed and I am sure I nearly died.
---THE TORNADO---
Okay. So we were driving through western Nebraska, and there was a very strange thunderstorm that was almost constant lightning with no thunder at all, and because of the sunset the lightning looked pink. It was really pretty and the possibility of a tornado did not ever occur to me because what do I know about tornadoes. We stopped in a town called Paxton for a dinner, and the lightning was still going, even more so, by the time we left. As we got back out on the freeway, the wind picked up and there was a little hail. I was riding in the truck with Blaine, and he mentioned that this was tornado weather, and that I should help him watch for funnel clouds. I do not know what a funnel cloud looks like, but I did see lots of tornado-looking things on the horizon, and so I was sure that there were a dozen tornadoes headed straight for us and that we were going to have to stop the car and jump in a ditch and then die. We turned on the radio to get some weather information and the first thing I heard was the emergency broadcast thing, which (due to the fact that I sleep through earthquakes) I had never heard, except as a test. So that didn't help. They went over the list of counties where tornadoes were happening or where they could happen which of course meant nothing to me until we happened to pass a county sign later on that night. And they said what you should do if a tornado comes to you. So we're driving along and I'm PANICKING. Like, a serious, full-on panic attack, which lasted for about fifty miles. It was seriously the scariest thing I've ever experienced. We found out later, after things had calmed down, that the tornado storm was heading in the opposite direction from us, but that a tornado had touched down just outside Paxton about half an hour after we left. SCARY. And I specifically said there should be no tornadoes on this trip.
So anyway, now they're all here in Oregon and complaining about the heat, just like real Oregonians. I spend most of my time at their place but I make sure to have a day or two every week when I come home to my house instead so my poor baby kitties are not neglected. I'm really happy that they're here, and I'm having a great time doing Portland stuff with them. I can't wait to show them the mountains and the coast, and all kinds of stuff in town that we haven't had a chance to see yet. Nick is coming for a visit in August and that will be all kinds of awesome. I'm really looking forward to it. The hope is that we will show him how wonderful Portland is and he won't want to leave.
I am getting back into acting again! I have an audition tomorrow for The Man Who Came to Dinner. It's at the Lakewood theatre in Lake Oswego, which Jeff says is one of the best theatres in Portland, so if this turns out to just be audition experience, that's fine - I haven't done anything in three years, after all. But of course I'm hoping to be cast! If this one doesn't work out, there's an audition for The Laramie Project at the end of the month, which I would definitely love to be in on. I'm working on my monologue for the audition tomorrow and I have it memorised, more or less, but I keep tripping over a couple parts. I really hope I can manage to get it right tomorrow. I'm also freaking a bit over what to wear - Jeff (I have been getting so much good advice from him!) says just go with business casual, which I can do, but I look much better in jeans so I wonder if it's okay to wear jeans if they're really nice, really dark wash? I don't know!
Amanda, Kirk, and Blaine moved here about a month and a half ago. The road trip was very exciting, at least for me, but then again I didn't have to do any of the driving. We drove through nine states - Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and Oregon. It was a lot prettier than I expected - Iowa, in particular, surprised me. I was expecting perfectly flat cornfields as far as the eye could see, but it was really nice. Wyoming was beautiful but very, very windy. Nebraska was boring, and I said as much several times during the drive through that state, and so I think Nebraska got upset and gave us a tornado that we barely missed and I am sure I nearly died.
---THE TORNADO---
Okay. So we were driving through western Nebraska, and there was a very strange thunderstorm that was almost constant lightning with no thunder at all, and because of the sunset the lightning looked pink. It was really pretty and the possibility of a tornado did not ever occur to me because what do I know about tornadoes. We stopped in a town called Paxton for a dinner, and the lightning was still going, even more so, by the time we left. As we got back out on the freeway, the wind picked up and there was a little hail. I was riding in the truck with Blaine, and he mentioned that this was tornado weather, and that I should help him watch for funnel clouds. I do not know what a funnel cloud looks like, but I did see lots of tornado-looking things on the horizon, and so I was sure that there were a dozen tornadoes headed straight for us and that we were going to have to stop the car and jump in a ditch and then die. We turned on the radio to get some weather information and the first thing I heard was the emergency broadcast thing, which (due to the fact that I sleep through earthquakes) I had never heard, except as a test. So that didn't help. They went over the list of counties where tornadoes were happening or where they could happen which of course meant nothing to me until we happened to pass a county sign later on that night. And they said what you should do if a tornado comes to you. So we're driving along and I'm PANICKING. Like, a serious, full-on panic attack, which lasted for about fifty miles. It was seriously the scariest thing I've ever experienced. We found out later, after things had calmed down, that the tornado storm was heading in the opposite direction from us, but that a tornado had touched down just outside Paxton about half an hour after we left. SCARY. And I specifically said there should be no tornadoes on this trip.
So anyway, now they're all here in Oregon and complaining about the heat, just like real Oregonians. I spend most of my time at their place but I make sure to have a day or two every week when I come home to my house instead so my poor baby kitties are not neglected. I'm really happy that they're here, and I'm having a great time doing Portland stuff with them. I can't wait to show them the mountains and the coast, and all kinds of stuff in town that we haven't had a chance to see yet. Nick is coming for a visit in August and that will be all kinds of awesome. I'm really looking forward to it. The hope is that we will show him how wonderful Portland is and he won't want to leave.