quick pacing!
Decided not to flake on the Dr Sketchys show. I just would have felt awful about it. Thanks for all the moral compass comments <3
I also was contacted by a local theater company to provide some intermission burlesque entertainment for a WWII-era musical! The musical sounds really cute - it's zany, lots of wordplay, set in Ireland and featuring real historic figures such as physicist Erwin Schroedinger. hee! I've heard that the troupe themselves are some of the best in the area... and the concept is pretty neat. Apparently they've taken over a whole floor of an unfininshed office building and are turning it into a speakeasy-style themed theater space. There will be cigarette girls and elevator operators and all sorts of jazz. I'm doing nine shows for them - a lot of Wednesdays & Thursdays and a couple weekend dates too. Exciting!
In the whirl to accept new gigs (and confirm previous commitments), I rescheduled my whole month, upsetting all the plans C and I had packed into October to create a very busy Autumn. We got into a bit of a fight about it. He was irritated that I rescheduled so easily, when I had been the one to originally insist that we sit down and make decisions about how we would spend our time. I like to schedule things in advance, but in doing so I give each event it's priority, knowing that new opportunities are going to pop up. And when they do, I can look at the calendar and make more critical decisions, knowing what leisure activities I might be giving up. "Is commiting to this show more or less important that going to Philly for a haunted house?"
I've been running my busy schedule like this for two years. I can't tell you how much I resented C in that moment when he suggested that I stop and consult him and his ambiguous feelings about certain plans. In my mind we had already discussed alternating plans, suggested which travel plans we were likely to abandon. I know I should accept and embrace that I am now sharing my life with this person and naturally it would be reasonable that I would consult him before making plans w/ other people/things. But I don't WANT to! hahaha, I mean, I know that's sort of childish but MAN did I not want to compromise the freedom of managing my own schedule. I straight up told C this will continue to be an issue between us.
So I had to reschedule my trip to Chicago. I am looking at the weekend of Oct 15: arriving the evening of Thursday, Oct 14 and leaving the early morning on Monday, Oct 18. I left it open-ended right now so that the weekend would be free if C decided he really wanted to do something together. When we get back from Hawaii (and I get paid) I will be buying my ticket (or not) for sure. Would love to hear from my Chicago friends if they will be in town and stuff? I'd love to perform w/ Vaudezilla in the Lincoln Fair that Friday too.. :)
We are really slowly getting settled in at home. I've unpacked everything excepy my winter clothes. Now we need to decorate! I can't wait to hang all my paintings & posters. Then we're going to have a housewarming party! We have two ideas: A Dumpling Party, where we cook (and ppl can bring) all types of dumplings from different cuisines. or a Dia De Los Muertos party, which could potentially be on the actual date, which happens to be a Tuesday. Would people come to a party on a Tuesday night? I'm not sure, but I will say that we're better stocked for a party on the small side, anyway. Well, we'll have 9 hours on the plane TO HAWAII THIS WEEK!!! to dicuss it :)