Just finished my final idiot check of the costume shop and costume storage in the Auditorium building. If all goes as scheduled, the building will start being gutted on Monday. It already has a strangely abandoned, post-apocalyptic feel to it, despite the faint sounds of actors rehearsing nearby. The deserted hallways are strewn with trash and ( Read more... )

Every once in a while it hits me hard how different my life is from most "regular" people's. I don't go to work from nine to five and sit on my butt in an office. I don't go home and watch sitcoms on TV every night, or look forward to weekends of yard work. Sometimes I really love being me. And I love having a career in the arts. And I love my ( Read more... )

Can't sleep, theatre will eat me. Can't sleep, theatre will eat me. Can't sleep, theatre will eat me...

We open Goldoni's commedia The Servant of Two Masters Friday night, and then first thing Saturday morning Aaron and I fly down to Anaheim to spend Aaron's birthday (and his mom's) at Disneyland! Yay! I know it's late notice again, but if anyone ( Read more... )

Sure wish that meant I actually got today off work!

Oh well, comp time later won't suck.

Oh, and a little political footnote:
Last Thursday I went to a late-ish dinner with yatzabella at Paesanos, and while we were sitting there eating a huge march went by down Capitol towards, well, the Capitol carrying no on 8 signs and the pride flag. They just kept ( Read more... )

Unfortunately I JUST got home from work. This is early, actually, since it's tech week for my current show (Dracula, if you're wondering) and all the rest of the week I've been getting home between 11:30 and midnight-- but tonight I was able to take off at intermission. Woo hoo ( Read more... )

So... I was just out walking across the quad here on campus. There was a girl who was well dressed in a trendily fashionable way; she looked well put-together and her outfit, while not exactly my taste, was obviously well thought out and put together. EXCEPT when you looked below the knee. OMFG, she was wearing knee-high toe socks with high ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, I ended up in bed with a fever of 101 instead. Lame. I seem to be better today, though, although not quite 100%. WTF? Tylenol is a wonderful thing. I'm taking the day off work today "just in case", although really it's more because we don't get students until next week and there's not much for me to do on campus right now. I ( Read more... )

NEVER buy a house, open a musical, be on a hiring committee with an immediate deadline, prep for two photo shoots, be on a planning committee, prepare for a dance performance, prepare for a musical performance, and try to fit in fun social events all at the same time. It's really just too much. Sometimes things don't go smoothly, and then they ( Read more... )

It's the second week of classes, and as usual right after winter break I've been mostly decorative so far. What can I say, the first show I'm designing this semester had auditions this afternoon, so I don't have a cast yet. I did a bit of research, but other than that I've felt pretty useless here. I should have a cast tomorrow, though, so I can ( Read more... )

Yup, still at work-- we've only just started the third act of this interminable dress rehearsal. The director decided to run most of the second act twice. *whine ( Read more... )