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i have never had such a need for a laptop as now.
i was generously given a laptop as a christmas/graduation gift in 2002 and relied on it to be my sole computer, but not so much for the transportable factor. when andrew went on tour, he took it and i took his desktop and that was fantastic. she was finally used appropriately. now she's showing her age - a whopping 4 years - and still kickin! that's durability.
but, she's old. and not as reliable. and now i'm working at mum which is all mac.
so i have bought myself a macbook! it's case is coming this week and i should have it next week.
i need it now!!!!! i'm going crazy. i need to have it by my side taking my notes.
and i'm going crazy cuz i just bought a macbook!
the great thing is that andrew put it on his amex so i don't have to pay for it for another month! i would have put it on my credit card, but i don't have time to raise my limit (to wait for the approval). plus, he goes air points.
air points. that sounds like an air five.
today is my sister's 13th birthday. happy birthday, girl. being nine years older gives me the distance so i can watch her grow up. it's the same feeling like an aunt or uncle - how they say, my how you've grown. i remember when you were wearing diapers - except with that sibling feeling.
mom complains that i don't update enough. i say, it's a good thing i don't have the time to!
i did the weekend intensive workshops at mum this weekend. it feels good to stay in touch with the performer. one of them was on lecoq technique and the other was on puppetry.
i did a little reading on the lecoq before coming into it and the most important thing i read was how important for the actor to share the experience with the audience rather than just feel it for himself. one of the neatest things we did was an exercise where we wandered through the forest. to show what you are experiencing, you take on the properties of the thing you are experiencing. you are still a person, but if you are watching a frog, you move like it. if you watch the sunset, you show it. it's so beautiful to watch. this is the physical theatre i have been looking for.
andrew and i had been toying around with the idea of maybe studying at the lecoq school in paris (before the workshop came up) and thinking maybe to go instead to a school in chile that is cheaper and lead by students of lecoq. maybe these things will happen one day.
anyway, we loved it.
the puppetry workshop was less on the hands-on puppetry and more on learning ways of thinking. it was a lot of playing one game with a softball. it taught us a lot of lessons.
a+i learned a lot about a friend of ours who also participated in the workshop. he displayed a lot of his negative qualities and it was intriguing to me to see who he is in this type of environment. i was really disappointed.
i am trying to plan a trip to india in early january with morgan to visit friends dawn and jason who will be living there for the year. i am waiting for michael to get back from tanzania to help me find cheap(er) plane tickets.
i finally got another email from christine. a sergeant first class in her troop was killed by a blast and other soldiers were injured. i am glad to have heard from her, but i don't know if was easier to not have had communication and think she was in a safe area, or to have communication and know that there is such danger in her life.
there's just so much going on. so much that has gone on.
andrew and i are rolling in the sweet potatoes - les patates douces.
he bought a bag full at the farmer's market and made me <> for my belated birthday pie - 3 months late.
i have now had it at 3 of the last 4 meals. mmmmm
now i am making sweet potato fries.
did i tell you we won the lottery the past two months? in our weekly coupon pack, we got coupons for buy-one-get-one-free for the different pennsylvania lotteries - one for each month through feb. in sept we won $10 and this month we won $2!
saturday night i finally chopped a drainboard so that we could have one that fits our corner kitchen sink. it took me an hour to get through that 1/8 inch think plastic with a cheap box-knife. then, tired and ready for bed, i discovered that there had been a leak upstairs and my bed was soaked. fortunately i still have my hair-dryer my dad bought me years ago and i haven't used since.
then sunday i was having pains in my chest that increased over the day - so much so that i was afraid to move by 9pm. then my body started panicing and i was shaking. i took two asprin and went to bed. sleeping 10 hours was good for me. i had a slight residual pain the next day, but it went away thankfully. that was weird.
andrew was by my side and that was really nice. i love living with my best friend.
i was generously given a laptop as a christmas/graduation gift in 2002 and relied on it to be my sole computer, but not so much for the transportable factor. when andrew went on tour, he took it and i took his desktop and that was fantastic. she was finally used appropriately. now she's showing her age - a whopping 4 years - and still kickin! that's durability.
but, she's old. and not as reliable. and now i'm working at mum which is all mac.
so i have bought myself a macbook! it's case is coming this week and i should have it next week.
i need it now!!!!! i'm going crazy. i need to have it by my side taking my notes.
and i'm going crazy cuz i just bought a macbook!
the great thing is that andrew put it on his amex so i don't have to pay for it for another month! i would have put it on my credit card, but i don't have time to raise my limit (to wait for the approval). plus, he goes air points.
air points. that sounds like an air five.
today is my sister's 13th birthday. happy birthday, girl. being nine years older gives me the distance so i can watch her grow up. it's the same feeling like an aunt or uncle - how they say, my how you've grown. i remember when you were wearing diapers - except with that sibling feeling.
mom complains that i don't update enough. i say, it's a good thing i don't have the time to!
i did the weekend intensive workshops at mum this weekend. it feels good to stay in touch with the performer. one of them was on lecoq technique and the other was on puppetry.
i did a little reading on the lecoq before coming into it and the most important thing i read was how important for the actor to share the experience with the audience rather than just feel it for himself. one of the neatest things we did was an exercise where we wandered through the forest. to show what you are experiencing, you take on the properties of the thing you are experiencing. you are still a person, but if you are watching a frog, you move like it. if you watch the sunset, you show it. it's so beautiful to watch. this is the physical theatre i have been looking for.
andrew and i had been toying around with the idea of maybe studying at the lecoq school in paris (before the workshop came up) and thinking maybe to go instead to a school in chile that is cheaper and lead by students of lecoq. maybe these things will happen one day.
anyway, we loved it.
the puppetry workshop was less on the hands-on puppetry and more on learning ways of thinking. it was a lot of playing one game with a softball. it taught us a lot of lessons.
a+i learned a lot about a friend of ours who also participated in the workshop. he displayed a lot of his negative qualities and it was intriguing to me to see who he is in this type of environment. i was really disappointed.
i am trying to plan a trip to india in early january with morgan to visit friends dawn and jason who will be living there for the year. i am waiting for michael to get back from tanzania to help me find cheap(er) plane tickets.
i finally got another email from christine. a sergeant first class in her troop was killed by a blast and other soldiers were injured. i am glad to have heard from her, but i don't know if was easier to not have had communication and think she was in a safe area, or to have communication and know that there is such danger in her life.
there's just so much going on. so much that has gone on.
andrew and i are rolling in the sweet potatoes - les patates douces.
he bought a bag full at the farmer's market and made me <> for my belated birthday pie - 3 months late.
i have now had it at 3 of the last 4 meals. mmmmm
now i am making sweet potato fries.
did i tell you we won the lottery the past two months? in our weekly coupon pack, we got coupons for buy-one-get-one-free for the different pennsylvania lotteries - one for each month through feb. in sept we won $10 and this month we won $2!
saturday night i finally chopped a drainboard so that we could have one that fits our corner kitchen sink. it took me an hour to get through that 1/8 inch think plastic with a cheap box-knife. then, tired and ready for bed, i discovered that there had been a leak upstairs and my bed was soaked. fortunately i still have my hair-dryer my dad bought me years ago and i haven't used since.
then sunday i was having pains in my chest that increased over the day - so much so that i was afraid to move by 9pm. then my body started panicing and i was shaking. i took two asprin and went to bed. sleeping 10 hours was good for me. i had a slight residual pain the next day, but it went away thankfully. that was weird.
andrew was by my side and that was really nice. i love living with my best friend.