I caved and joined the mass exodus to Dreamwidth in hopes that having a fresh new canvas would get me updating again. And I want to make sure I can keep up with everyone. (Though I'm sure I'll still check both regularly, as I am a creature of habit.)

So, I'm LadyBedivere over there (I don't have the cross-posting set up yet); I'll probably run through the flist and add y'all in the next few days.

Hope your holidays were lovely!

The Good News: I'm stage managing and assistant directing an awesome production of Bootleg Hamlet using the text from the 1603 "Bad" Quarto, which I'm sure the Shakespeare geeks on my flist will be entertained/excited to know about. The entire cast is doubled, so even our Hamlet also plays the First Sentinel, and in my favorite bit of doubling, Horatio and Leartes are the same actor. Good stuff.

The Bad News: We are putting up this production in 30 days. That's right, we started rehearsals on 1 November and we have our preview performance on 1 December. Because we are bloody insane, that's why. So I will either suddenly be here all the time whining about the insanity or my radio silence will be even worse than usual.

Anyway. Yay, Shakespeare and all that. Though you might like to know. Carry on.

SO BAD AT UPDATING OMG.

Here, have a list by category, that way you can just jump to the bits you care about.

School: LAST SEMESTER THANK GOODNESS. Unless something gets totally screwed up. I have two, count 'em, two, whole classes; one is the Intro to Linguistics class that I've been avoiding forever because it scares me, and the other is my senior seminar on Henry James because the one I wanted (Dickens with Dr. Hackenberg) wasn't offered this semester, and Henry James was at least Victorian and fictionally British like me. So far both are going well, and I am already slacking off like a boss, because I am a horrible person.

Work: I still need to get a real job like the grown-up that I am supposed to be, but I'm getting a little better. Barring any paperwork snafus, I have gotten approved to be hired as the Assistant Production Manager for the school's theater department, which I wanted to do for the experience/resume building first and then found out it was paid, so that's exciting. It's more of what I've been doing anyway, so it shouldn't be too hard to add on to my life, and I get to work with Clyde, who is one of my most favorite people ever, so yay! Once Jump (see below) is over, I may also apply to a bookstore or two near my house and see if I can pick up something else as well.

Theater: Jump is going well. We're spending tomorrow creating a guerilla performance art piece that we are then going to perform in various spots around San Francisco to promote the show...I'm a little freaked out by the thought, but it's another first for me I guess. I will be running around filming and photographing it so that we can plaster it all over the intertubes. The other show I was helping with, Life x3 opened on Friday and looked pretty damn good considering what a mess they were in. (They had barely three weeks to rehearse before going up. Holy. Crap.)

Books: According to Goodreads, I have read 62 out of my goal of 100 books for the year and am 3 books behind to stay on target. I just came off a Restoration/Sun King era kick, and and now working slowly through Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (because my copy is too big to carry about) and I'm about halfway through a fantasy/fiction/romance book called Lady of Hay full of past-life regression, sibling rivalry, and Medieval England. It's pretty good for a Kindle freebie grab. And of course, I'm still creeping through my huuuuuge Le Morte d'Arthur that I've been working through off and on for over a year because I fail. I squee every time Bedivere is mentioned. I'm so bad.

Writing: I suck at it. That's about all right now. I have two or three options for my NaNoWriMo novel; I'll pick one probably on 31 October. I'm trying to get back into some of the short stories and the two plays that I was working on at the beginning of the summer, and I'm crazy backlogged in FanFic that I want to write but haven't had time to work on.

Life/General: My supposed best friend stopped talking to me around July, either because he's too busy or because he no longer finds me useful...if I can ever get him to respond to me again, I might get to find out which one! But, the gal he introduced me to right before they had a huge blowup and decided they hate each other is awesome, and we hang out, so I still get out of the house on occasion. She's a professional photographer and is going to teach me how to hold reflectors and be her pack mule on shoots so that I can have a useable life skill. :D I still haven't gotten my driver's license, but we have four working cars again, so I can start practicing again. (Sadly, my Laertes is no more thanks to being a black hole of unfixable problems, so we traded him in, got my sister a Toyota Camry, and her Hundai Elantra has become the practice car for my brother and I.)

I think that's about it. I'mma try to start doing more mini updates more often, because it will be good for me dammit. And y'all may get spam of photos/video of this theater project I'm working on, because there's enough of you who are into theater that I figure you might enjoy seeing that stuff.

Augh it's 2:20am. I'm gonna go play games and pretend to be productive to bed now.

Wrote a huge entry earlier while killing time, but LJ apparently ate it, so there we go. It wasn't anything of consequence, other than my to-do list, but I'm pretty sure I can remember that until I get to rehearsal and wrote it down then.

Hi! How are all of you? Whatcha reading?

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I have gotten about 5 hours of good sleep in the last two nights, so I'm a little loopy at the moment and keeping myself awake by making along overdue catchup post. Yay.

So, after a two week hiatus, we have resumed rehearsals for the show I'm stage managing summer. It's called Jump: A Love Story, and it is a creepy-as-hell stream-of-consciousness devised piece about the Golden Gate Bridge as a suicide destination. It's a really screwed up script (such as it is), but it's going to be so pretty, and the actors are fantastic both at their craft and to work with. We're in decent shape, but it's incredibly frustrating trying to work around people's schedules and then work rehearsal schedules around other things. We have a website here, which apparently no longer has all the cool pictures and text is used to, but does have links to the Facebook and the trailer which do still have pictures and such. Funny story: Mario, the writer/director whose thesis project this is, asked me to work on this after talking to me for 10 minutes in the hall at school last fall while I was stage managing his short piece in the Mainstage Fringe. We work well together, because he's a gay man who thinks like a chick and I'm a straight woman who kinda thinks like a dude. It's hilarious.

I'm actually working on two shows, as I am also the "Food Mistress" for my friend Abbey's thesis production of Life x3 by Yasmina Reza. Which has yet to start regular meetings and might possibly still be missing an actor. Out of a cast of four. I need to check in on them. But I'm sure it'll work out fine. Eternal theatrical optimism.

This is one of the longest rehearsals of my life I am so exhausted.

Iiiiiiin other news my supposed best friend doesn't really talk to me anymore, which has freed me up to spend a lot of time hanging out with people he doesn't really like (which is pretty much everyone at this point, since he spent most of last semester burning bridges with basically everyone he knew at SFSU and a few other people besides). I have discovered that I have an amazing social life when I just decide to have one.

I really miss having the time (and stamina) to RP like back in the day.

Can this rehearsal be over now please dear everything sacred? Okay, gonna close this and colse rehearsal and call it a night.

Swear to God, I'm alive and reading my flist. FOR REALZ.

I just really suck at remembering to update. And comment. [insert fail here]

I'm frequently over on the Book of Faces, however, so if y'all want the link ask and we can harrass each other over there. Also on the Twitter.

Much love either way, and maybe I'll remember to update this more than once in a blue moon. I go through phases, y'know.

Yo, Broadway Peeps!

Do any of you have any sort of accompaniment track for "The Girl I Mean to Be" from The Secret Garden? My sister may need one for tomorrow because the people who planned the music recital at her school are really, really dumb. I will happily upload all kinds of thank-you muzack in return!

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So in addition to the week being out to get me in general, today Laura and I went to the most emotionally traumatizing graduation planning meeting in the history of ever and I've kinda spent the rest of the day alternating between righteous fury that makes me want to just get this damn thing done and just wanting to cry because it's not my personal fault that the faculty haven't been pleased with past graduation ceremonies, bacuse I wasn't around for those and we the Players' Club officers are trying really hard to work with them to make it more what they'd like to see, but we still want to keep some of what the students are expecting, because after today's meeting I'm afraid that if we make all the changes that the faculty want they'll be thrilled and no students will be willing to participate.

Mostly I've been in cry mode, but I think that's also because my left shoulder is all messed up again, and I'm pretty PMS-y.

Also, this is just another of the many, many reasons why I'm not walking for my graduation, I'm just helping run and organize this debacle.

And to boot, we're down an actor for the short-film that I'm producing that shoots this weekend, so now we're mad-scrambling to find someone by Sunday and I WISH PEOPLE WOULD JUST BLOODY COMMUNICATE IN GENERAL WHY IS THIS SO HARD!!!

Okay, gonna go curl up in a corner now.

Stolen from lyotto

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Dear Self,

Sooooo, you know that paper that's due on Tuesday? The 5-6 page one due to the intimidating teacher? The one that you were going to do on Saturday, but instead stared at a blinking cursor for six hours before saying "oh screwit" and getting dinner with Tom? The one that you had really good momentum on for a minute on BART and then had to get off and go the rehearsal and lost steam on? Remember that one?

Well, it's still due Tuesday, and it's still not done. And you still have a 2-3 page RESEARCH PAPER DUE ON THURSDAY THAT YOU SHOULD MAYBE PICK A TOPIC FOR. But it's really okay, because at least the show you're stage managing has a lovely email account, Facebook page, and Twitter.

Also, it is now almost 1am.

In conclusion, you're screwed. Good job!

With "love,"
The Logical Side of Your Brain