there are not enough drugs on the fucking planet to make dealing with my family bearable. it's been a mix of awkward and lonely, a dash of bickering, and a pinch of drunk. please respond with possible excuses to get me out of having to do all of this again in december. the upside? i'm leaving tomorrow and staying in philly. then back to western ( Read more... )

went to hear a speaker tonight with callyboy on the topic of transgendered people in the bible. it turned out to be a play, not a lecturesque event. it was fairly good, either way. in the talk back afterward the performer mentioned another play he'd written where one character basically says god was worshiped as female for lots of years until society ( Read more... )

Aries: (March 21-April 19): You may not know what’s going to happen next but you don’t need to. The reason we can’t always see the future is because if we knew what was going to happen we’d miss the lesson. Experience is the only teacher here, and trust is your only means of survival at times like this. Letting go of what you thought would always ( Read more... )

today has been really draining...the space between here and then has been weighing heavily the last week or so. i think of this moment, this hour, and where we were-what we were trying to understand, which leads to thinking of all of the hours and moments that came long before and long after. it makes me sad to the point of feeling nothing. i feel ( Read more... )

saw this on a fellow friend's journal and thought to cross-post it for the philly folx. i edited it down, somewhat, as the timeframe for the rally has already passed, but it's still important to read, as the elections are tomorrow (or today, since it's after midnight). i figured i'd post it in my journal as well, to keep the information moving to ( Read more... )

opening night is tomorrow. holy. crap.

nervous nervous nervous.

my mom is coming to visit/see the show next weekend. i'll be happy to see her!

hope all is well with you all......i miss everyone.

rehearsals are coming along...it hit me, tonight, that we open a week from thursday. yikes! i realized something hysterically funny (in that ironic universe way) tonight, about the other actor's day job. he works in social services for the elderly to get them care when they can't get it for themselves by way of consumer assessments. yeah. funny, ( Read more... )

tonight was an *incredibly* hard rehearsal...physically and (more so) emotionally. it was all for good, but i forgot how draining it is when you put a lot into the work you're doing. i had thought it would have been hard like this earlier on, but i think, with not having lines memorized yet and all, i haven't been connecting emotionally as much. i' ( Read more... )

i love that fall is here...well, kinda here :) i love that it is coming. i love what i call pittsburgh days, and fall always has the highest porportion of pittsburgh days...when the air is crisp and smells like fall, the sun is bright, the leaves are swirling, and life--just the smell of it is inspiring. i like those days a lot ( Read more... )

the show tonight was amazing. i don't just mean amazing in that 'that-sweater-looks-amazing' kind of way. i mean amazing the way that words are amazing, the way that words can change your life and remind you that there are days that you wake up and are fucking *grateful* to be breathing. blair opened the show, and then shira erlichman, and then ( Read more... )