I love all my hobbies and activities, but do they all have to collide? In the next month, I have two LARP sessions (and the attendant ST meetings), at least two, probably three mystery dinners (one a premiere of one of my scripts), three Amasong performances (and the attendant rehearsals), and Anime Central. If I can make it to May 11, I'm going to ( Read more... )

As most of you know, I act in murder mystery dinners with the Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company. These dinners are a major fundraiser for CUTC's Broadway-style musicals at the Virginia Theater. Our annual public series is coming up.

( Details behind the cut to spare readers who don't live around here. )

I feel like I should say something eloquent or insightful on this occasion, but the words aren't coming. Mostly it's a profound sense of relief and hope. There's a long road ahead, which will contain potholes and detours, but we've started moving in the right direction.

I get asked about Jeopardy! a lot. It's a lot of fun even if you don't win, so I encourage you to try for it if you're at all interested. (This is U.S. only, I'm afraid ( Read more... )

Had a mystery dinner tonight. All went well, but the performance adrenaline went out of me with a whoosh as soon as it was over and left me very, very sleepy. It's a good thing I don't actually have to think or do anything else this evening.

I did make it to Mom's for part of the holiday and got to see my sisters, nephew, and niece. It involved a long train trip there and a much longer bus trip back, but the visit was well worth it. I'm back and, apart from being exhausted and having a bit of a cold I'm fine. Thanks to everybody who expressed concerns.

I'm at my sister-in-law's house. We've had a terrific Christmas here. However, we're supposed to be on our way to my mom's house now, and I don't know when or if we'll be going ( Read more... )

I realize I haven't posted much for a while. Can't really point to a single reason why - busyness, winter grumps, etc. Nothing's wrong. And don't worry, I haven't been posting bunches of neat stuff to filters you're not on or anything like that ( Read more... )

This is our tenth anniversary. Wedding anniversary, that is - January 17th will be the 17th anniversary of our first date. Hard to believe it's been that long, and at the same time hard to remember life before we were together. Love ya, sweetie!

The guilt is because this is LARP night. We worked it out months ago that I'd be skipping tonight. But ( Read more... )

I feel like I ought to post something at this historic time, but I can scarcely string words together. I am proud of my country tonight.