[aaargh this post has crashed 3 times and I keep rewriting it and it keeps crashing so maybe it's not as coherent as its first version was].

Home from "Discon ai-ai-ai!" aka CurseCon aka The Nightmare Before Christmas, and I had an amazing time of it. For me it involved working with awesome people on accomplishing awesome things, if sometimes under ( Read more... )

Meanwhile, there was a play in there.

A pretty exciting play, at that - as of its conclusion my troupe can brag having performed every single play in Shakespeare's canon. And, we did it in person.

The show was Cymbeline, and if you've no idea which one that is, you're in much good company - there's a reason we'd left this one for last. But we had ( Read more... )

Worldcon is coming up, and it's in DC.

This is a big deal for me.

It's in my city and I've been looking forward to it for years. It's inevitably an opportunity to spend time with delightful people, largely of fellow tech variety.

But... My approach to the pandemic has generally been on the paranoid side of risk-avoidance, and I've been less than ( Read more... )

I auditioned for a zoom "radio play". Vocal stuff is not mega my forte, but I thought I did some pretty cool things during the audition. Not cool enough - the director's rejection included a note to consider varying voices if I read multiple characters. Which I certainly thought I was doing - but I guess it didn't read. That's discouraging.

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I hosted a party!

Given my general inclination towards paranoia, I had some trepidation about inviting people. I've had as many as 2-3 people in my space on previous occasions, and hosted a handful of very exclusive firepit nights, but for the past few weeks despite the weather being perfect we've not felt up for even that much.

For past few years ( Read more... )

I had misgivings about 48 Hour Film Festival this year. My usual team was pretty conscientious about wanting everyone vaccinated, and we eventually decided to skip the Friday night writing session but be there for the Saturday filming.

Then our producer and our director both had a covid scare, both being exposed to someone who was diagnosed, and, ( Read more... )

I find myself in the unusual condition of entirely out of theater to do in the future. I have been working very, very hard to avoid this, because this is not normally the best state of mind for me, but that is how the cards have fallen out.

I did have a project I want to do which will require a zoom-based staging to pull off, but I spent over a ( Read more... )

Here's how it went down two weeks ago.

That Saturday was a remarkably good day in my brain. It's rare for me to be energetic and up to projects, but we got a whole lot done around the house and got much accomplished. The stage manager for the show I"m in dropped off a prop and we chatted outside for a while and it was amazing, driveway cicadas ( Read more... )

Tamer went well. (See for yourself, if you're so inclined, here). It was a show that felt good. The actors had clever ideas and brought interesting emotions to the characters and were funny. The techs translated my concepts into an environment for actors to virtually inhabit. Excellent work was done all around.

And then, I crashed hard. At ( Read more... )

Januaries are hard.

My relationship with my birthdays has always been precarious. I did manage to make it non-routine, which is always good, but at the cost of socialization I have been badly in need of.

As Spouse and I share a Hebrew date birthday, we normally celebrate that also; this time was a rehearsal night, and he was anti-social, but we ( Read more... )