Life is short, y'all.

( Other people's milestones )

Yesterday at work was the first meeting of an HR intiative: a team of volunteers to discuss corporate culture, which of course I threw myself at, if only in an attempt to have some idea what The Powers That Be are thinking, even if my hopes of influencing it are limited ( Read more... )

The funny thing about grief is how utterly non-computable it is. You can expect certain occasions - such as anniversaries - to trigger something, of course, but if you try to predict how exactly you will react, it'll throw you a curve ball ( Read more... )

At Columbia Lakefront Festival there is usually some manner of acrobatic act. This year it's Eventi Verticali, who hang an enormous screen on a truss from a crane, project onto the screen, hoist themselves up to it, and interact with it as if the vertical surface was horizontal. I'm a bit disappointed not to get to see them in person, since ( Read more... )

On FB I know a few people into doing random positive shout-outs. Which is an amazing practice which I infinitely admire and envy the ability for ( Read more... )

The most recent noteworthy thing to write about was a wedding I helped out with ( Read more... )

I feel nearly scared to post this with an entire 16 hours to go this year, but, dammit, for me it's been a good one ( Read more... )

While at the readthrough for our next play (which will be Henry IV, parts both mushed together), it felt really good that my life has arranged itself to include moments of sitting around someone's living room, sipping prosecco or what-have-you, and reading Shakespeare aloud to each other ( Read more... )

My neighbor put up a fence that appears to be a magnet for birds - this weekend included a conclave's worth of scattered cardinals, and a blue jay and a bluebird fascinatedly staring at each other, and half a dozen assorted birdies I, being rather inept at such things, couldn't identify ( Read more... )

The one-act festival went better than anyone had any right to expect. My producer hat is particularly happy: we got a good mix of performances - monologues, scenes from longer works, complete short works, classical, modern, self-written, drama, comedy, and at a very comfortable run time with an intermission. A good mix of recently active and ( Read more... )