Archive for June 2006
of boy and ships and sealing wax
For me, a perk of working on a campus is being around student workers. Oh stop it you pervs, not in anykind of cougar sense. Just being witness to the occasional excellentness of 18-to-20-year-olds. Life is often breathlessly exciting or excrutiatingly difficult or weepingly mundane. Crushes are felt, deeply. Grades are a source of contant…
Read Moredude i got blogged
Evany’s blog contains news of the first leg of her book tour, in fantastic, fearful detail. I admire the girl even more [if that can be possible] now that I realize the extent of her fear of public speaking. I very occasionally get panicky before going on stage .. it happens when it’s unusually hot…
Read Morehear the orchestra?
So I was smoking the television crackpipe this AM and paused on the vision of of Edward Everett Horton. I love him alot. His voice, of course, takes me right back to Saturday mornings and Fractured Fairy Tales on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The rest of him is delicious, too… it’s a good day…
Read Moreunited airlines: you suck!!
So I missed my 6am flight thanks to a minor error that escalated into a major, tangled, foul knot. I travelled to Colorado to try to get to Santa Barbara on time to get to this wedding. There were tears, there was epic driving, there was gratitude at the last-week Becky for planting some wedding-ready…
Read Moreso many parties and they’re all over
The chances are low I’ll be getting out of bed anytime today. I’m home, oh crap! My last evening with the Seattle Improv Fest on 6/16 was excellent. We had a mega-show. The early show was divided into two parts. The first half we called “First/Last”. Half the group performed “First”: the audience supplied us…
Read Morekilling improv
Wow, I missed an entry and feel like I missed commenting on a lifetime of events. The second part of Shishir’s workshop witnessed us pulling together two mini-productions, based on a J.M. Synge play and incorporating all our personal histories as well as Viewpoints work. Phew! Hard to describe here but really exciting and interesting…
Read Morethe word “snack” exists in many languages
Now we’re cooking. Amazing workshop today by an amazing individual. Shishir Kurup, member of the Cornerstone Theatre Company. Please, see the website and see what they do. Cornerstone’s mission and creativity simply fill me with joy. It was quite a day, very intense, very revealing. There were some Viewpoints exercises (I forgot how much I…
Read Moreups and downs
Have I mentioned: god bless Moya and Leanne? Not only do I have the luxe lodgings, but Eggs Florentine and an adorable toddler in the mornings? Just stop it! Sandra Hernandes’ Workshop Part Two was intense, odd, fun, confusing! There were some frustrations and subsequent discussions regarding our purposes, what we were intending to do…
Read Moremy ass hurts. straight up fo sho
God bless Moya and Leanne. I’m now in a quiet, lovely home with two rooms to myself. I might brave the hostel again but right this second it’s pretty blissful to know that I will sleep tonight without trying to ignore the overhead lights shining a foot from my head; moving in my bed, knowing…
Read Moretower of babel
I have started a flicker photoset for Festival photos here. So far, some non-person shots. I’ll start taking shots of peeps tomorrow once everyone is bathed and happy and settled in. We got to see the first show of the festival tonight, put on by several int’l people that were here for the past week,…
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