Now I know...

...Spanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say...

I mean, I knew it before because Elton John told me so, but now I really know it for sure!


That's a convulted way of saying I'M IN NEW YORK! I'm at Garth's new place in Spanish Harlem (which I prefer to Washington Heights, but both are good names). The pigeons are plentiful, and to find him I need only follow the open-24-hours McDonalds. Good times.

Saw Cyrano de Bergerac with Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner last night and enjoyed it muchly. My mommy's going to be very jealous, methinks.

Last blog entry of 2007! I hope everyone else has a fantastic New Year's Eve celebration. Mwah!

Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas, all...I'm headed back to good ol' Newport News tomorrow, but just for a few days. Saturday I'm headed to DC to stay the night with my Michmouse and then Sunday it's off to the Dulles airport for NEW YORK! Yay!

I spent five days in Florida, a night and a morning in Newport News, and the past four-ish days in Richmond.

It's been crazy. I've had great fun with my family, but my GOD do I miss the gym! I can't wait for tomorrow.

Some pictures & such.

Grandma & I at the Yacht Club (aka Rich Old White People's Club).

Reunion! These are two of my best friends in the universe from about ages 11/12 through 16. Seventh grade, man...those were good times. We haven't seen each other since we left for college, pretty much. Audra's on the left, Brittany's on the right. And if you don't know who's in the middle, why are you reading this?

My sister got Beau a stuffed Chipmunk for Christmas. Pretty much the cutest thing ever.

We had Christmas lunch - a first for me (I think) - at Jim's mother's house. She lives on a farm on the Rappahannock river - so lovely. This is Gen, Jim's absolutely hilarious and fabulous sister who brought a giant bottle of delicious Zinfandel and some Trader Joe's treats. And that's her damn brother.

Mommy and me! Naturally, we are pretty much wasted, as it is already 1:30 in the afternoon.


And now I'm a happy puppy, because Home Alone is on. Good times.

Hope everyone's safe & happy!

Everything's gonna be fine, fine, fine...

Between the iTunes gift card my cousin Missy gave me for Christmas, VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the '90's," red wine, and...well, iTunes, I just bought a shitload of music.


First, the albums...

• Bob Dylan's Modern Times (I've been wanting this one since it freaking came out...I can't wait to hear my boyfriend's new sound)
• Bob Dylan's Another Side of Bob Dylan (The absolute last of his music from his early pre-motorcycle crash/love affair with Jesus years. It's kind of a scary notion that I'm about to plunge into the last of those depths. It makes me yearn for a time machine.)
• Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill (I owned this on cassette tape, sucka. I remember absolutely falling in love with every word of this album, so I'm excited to re-visit the old love)

It's odd how I feel such a deep, often emotional connection with the random, generally-all-alike "alternative" music of the '90's. Yes, it was the decade of my childhood, but...I barely remember any details of my childhood! I guess I'm just destined to be in love with this music, even if I heard most of it at age 9 with no idea at all of what the lyrics meant (this mostly applies to any Salt n Pepa or TLC songs)

'90's guilty pleasures and old flames:

• Alanis Morissette, Uninvited (I don't care if I get judged for this one, I think it's a gorgeous song)
• Goo Goo Dolls, Iris
• Goo Goo Dolls, Slide
• Goo Goo Dolls, Black Balloon (okay, I actually stole this from Carol last year, but I never listen to it. So now it's on my new '90's playlist)
• Oasis, Wonderwall
• Oasis, Champagne Supernova
• REM, Stand
• REM, Losing My Religion
• REM, It's the End of the World (As We Know It)

90's songs I bought to run to so DON'T JUDGE ME...

• Madonna, Vogue
  
• Salt n Pepa, Shoop
• Salt n Pepa, Whatta Man

I also bought an embarrassing Black Eyed Peas song for the purposes of inspired running.

And some Sting/John Dowand songs for the purposes of nostalgic Romeo + Juliet-ness.

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Hilarity and genius!

I'm watching Big Fat Loser. And I'm not ashamed!

I hope Julie wins. And I hope Jillian shows up at my door tomorrow and moves in with me and changes my life with her hot biceps and terrifying military antics.

Briefest of briefs

Doesn't this post sound like it should be about underwear? Alas.

• Birthday drinks were amazing. I got a boyfriend for my birthday! Actually, I got a creepy redneck stalker, so when Peter (beautiful perfect brilliant precious and GAY Peter) arrived, my friends at the far end of the table filled him in, so he marched right up to me, said, "Hey, babe," and started kissing me. A lot. So he was my boyfriend for the night to protect me from Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel!
• Drank all day long on Friday in honor of Kendra getting a degree in biology (as well as Carol getting her degree in acting, Lisa getting her degreeS in vocal performance and musical theatre, and Katie Bahr getting her degree in English. spotlight stealers). I'm never doing that again. Damn Kendra's peer pressure.
• Played with Mom & Hungover Kendra on Saturday!
• Had a fondue party with wine, cheese, and chocolate (and cheesey eggs!) with Lisa and Carol Saturday night. It was amazing. We stayed up until 2.
• Then Lisa and I got up at 4:30 to get her to the airport. GAH.
• Went back to bed. Woke up. Cleaned the whole apartment. Packed. Kendra took me to the airport. (For a later flight, since my original one had been cancelled...but upon arrival, the people at the airport said it WASN'T actually cancelled and they looked at me like I was nuts. WTF?)
• Got to Grandma's, tired and bitchy and tired again. Had a spillage-in-the-luggage incident that I don't want to talk about, but all is pretty much well now.

Now, about to head out for brief errands with Grandma before going outside and forcing the 69 dgree weather to feel like 80 degree weather and doing work. And possibly yoga with my shiney new PINK yoga mat.

Hope everyone else is well!

Birthday girl!

I'm 23! YAY!

I have decided that 23 is an awesome age.

Also, I have the most wonderful friends. The APO Christmas party was on Tuesday, and it was completely insane. I took a million pictures, but maybe I'll put some up just for funsies.

Last night, I went to see my baby girls/ex "roommates." They are the SWEETEST little things in the world. They bought me a fondue set! SHAPED LIKE A HERSHEY KISS! They are amazing. Lauren made cheese for it while Mich and Jamie filled me in on the latest gossip. Then - they brought out a CAKE! With lit candles and everything! I was convinced they were going to set off their smoke alarm and get in trouble. Then they violated exam week quiet hours by singing me a stunning, soprano-operatic rendition of Happy Birthday. It was quite special.
Jamie & Mich lead off the singing.

It looks like I'm blowing on my hand instead of the candles. I'm not sure what that's about. Oh! I'm trying to make sure my hair doesn't fall in the flames.

That is the smokiest picture ever.


As for tonight...there's a new cycling class at the gym that I've been wanting to try, but they haven't introduced it on the schedule yet. Well, they're doing a special master class of it TONIGHT! It's my inadvertent birthday present from the gym, hooray!

Afterwards...getting wasted at Schooners, of course. Don't think too many people will be there, as I did have the misfortune of being born during finals week at CNU. However, Kendra has informed me that starting tomorrow, she wants to get wasted first thing in the morning and remain in that condition until Christmas in order to kill all of the brain cells she's grown at school these past four and a half years. So it'll be a very busy day!

Best friend!

I am so overwhelmed with love and joy right now!

Katie Parker came over tonight to make me a birthday cake. How sweet is that?

I love that girl. I am so blessed to have her in my life!

Also, the universe loves me...I left the apartment for the gym today very reluctantly because Pulp Fiction was on and I didn't want to leave it because I haven't seen it in forever - but I left, because I couldn't be late. Well, Katie just left, and I turn on the TV...and I shit you not, Pulp Fiction is on in almost the exact spot that it was when I left.

Thanks, Encore Action! And universe!

Anyway. A tribute to Katie, since I'm more obsessed than usual with pictures these days...

Baby Katie turns 21! She's going to be 22 in less than a month. Good god!


Actus Fidei Cast Party, suckas!

GALA!

Me, the wife, and our BABY KATIE!!! Best friends!

I need to get some hot pictures of Katie and her hot new haircut.

It's the most wonderful time of the year

I had the most fantastic, full, glorious weekend! Alas, I don't have time to write about it all in detail, so I shall give an abbreviated rundown for my own OCD recording purposes.

Friday:

• Went to Pilates! Yay for my crazy tiny instructor
• Had lunch with Denise at Anderson's! She gave me some fantastic feedback on my portfolio, so between her feedback and Peter's, I'm going to be COMPLETELY overhauling it. Good times. We also gossiped, and she's going to quote me in her upcoming article for Southern Theatre Magazine!
• Had a massage, courtesy of Miss Carol Wilson...she gave me the most wonderful birthday present ever - a free facial, massage, and hair appointment. Yay!
• Drove to Richmond - had dinner with Mom & Jim at a fabulous new Mexican resturant
• Watched Megan's wedding video that Carol made for us!

Saturday:

• Got a pedicure with Mom!
• Had lunch with my dad - he gave me a GPS for my car (!!!) and money so I can go to New York to see Garth & his show!
• Did some shopping with Mom (happy birthday to me)
• Got pretty for the symphony
• Went with Mom, Jim, and Jim's mother to a beautiful Italian place, then off to the Richmond Symphony! It was so amazing and beautiful

Sunday

• Had a wonderful mommy-made breakfast & showed her my soon-to-be-deceased portfolio
• Went to the beautiful Westhampton Theatre in Richmond to see I'm Not There (!!!) with Jess and Brenda! (!!!!) Jess and Bren being my ex boyfriends parents who I love more than Christmas. They're phenomenal people and I haven't seen them in nearly 4 years. And the movie was absolutely spectacular, I loved every single second of it. Cate Blanchett is a goddess.
• Had Chinese with Jess & Bren at the old place we went to way back in the day
• Drove to Norfolk to Steven Breese's gorgeous house and spent the night with Carol (who was house and dog sitting) to keep her company and help her drink her vodka. His dogs are the sweetest things alive. And so was her vodka.
• We got drunk and fell asleep at 10:30. Then we woke up at 4am and talked for an hour and a half before falling asleep again.

And now I'm sitting here in my messy apartment contemplating laundry, watching Home Alone, and working on my mommy's amazing Christmas present.

Three more days till I'm a 23-year-old.

Gulp.

YAY! (and my sister is insane)

1. YAY!

So, yay doesn't adequately describe this, but it's a start.

I had lunch with Steven today, and after taking 8 thousand years to get to the point, god love him, he confirmed that he does have a LITTLE bit of money set aside for me on the budget, and that he wants me very much to come on board as his assistant (Assistant to the Artistic Director...which would be BIG), but he wants me to "look at my life" and make sure I'll be able to eat.

And, HELL YES is my answer. But he's making me take a couple more days to think about it. HOWEVER...there's nothing to think about. I'll be free during the days from January till mid-May, which means I can still temp, which means I'll be making money, which means I can eat and pay rent.

Basically, money's going to work out BETTER for me taking this job. If he had no money for me in the budget, I'd be applying to work (and possibly intern, depending on the awesomeness of the theatres) everywhere ever...and I'd be making the same measly amount of money, but over a longer period of time, AND I'd have to be worrying about what I'd do with my little ol' apartment in Newport News - basically either paying rent when I'm not even living there, or finding someone to take my place (which is nearly impossible in this town), and then there's the question of which jobs would provide housing and which wouldn't, and would I be living with friends' parents...on and on and on.

So, my answer is YES. Yes yes yes. It's going to be a ton of work and responsibility, a ton of authority and power (bwaha), working really closely with Steven, and a massive massive MASSIVE learning experience. All of those things make me super happy inside, and isn't that the whole point anyway? I say it is. So, I'm SO HAPPY AND EXCITED!

2. My sister is insane

I am too, but it's more fun to blame it on her.

So, awhile ago, when I was in the midst of planning my Baltimore trip, my sister made some kind of comment that we should plan a "sisters" trip sometime soon - we talked about how sweet the Baltimore Aquarium is supposed to be and how that might be fun to do. Well, we brought it up again when I went to her place for Thanksgiving, and we were also talking about running. And she said, wouldn't it be crazy if for our sister vacation, we ran a race? We were thinking of a 5K or something in Charleston, her favorite city in the whole world, which I also absolutely love.

Well, today, I get a voicemail from her, and she said that her ex-trainer (he owns his own fancy expensive gym now, hence the 'ex') laughed in her face at the suggestion of a 5K, and challenged her to do a 10K...in Charleston, April 5th...and he said that he will fly down there and run it with us and then buy us lunch afterward. (Which is a dangerous proposition on his part, because Megan has expensive taste in Charleston resturants!)

So...eep!

The only really scary thing about this is...I fucked up my shins earlier this fall. I took about a month and a half off, and now I'm starting up again verrrry slowly and gently, and my shins have started to hurt again. If it's just splints, I'm not worried, but this evil voice in the back of my head keeps shrilling, "stress fracture!"

So we'll see if my legs fall off.

Finally, in other news, I'm going to Richmond this weekend! Hooray! Visiting Jane and hopefully some of my old boys on Friday, lunch with the dad on Saturday (and hopefully getting my birthday present - aka money to go to NYC for New Year's and see Garth freaking OFF BROADWAY!), symphony with Mom & Jim on Saturday night, and...drumroll...lunch with freaking Jess and Brenda on Sunday afternoon. The parents of my ex-boyfriend. These two are the most amazing people EVER...I probably haven't seen them in about 4 years, which is nuts. They were such a big, supportive, influential part of my life for two years and I think of them fondly every day. (Brenda gave me a necklace for my 18th birthday...I've worn it every day since and I'm about to turn 23)

So, that's exciting.

In conclusion, I'm turning 23 next week.

[whistles]

It's December!

Aside from meaning that my BIRTHDAY IS COMING SOON (and I want this shirt...so so bad), this also means that it's the season for jolliness and friends! Hooray!

This weekend has been so much fun...Aaron and Gemma came over to stay with me, as they were coming into town to see Adding Machine (which is AMAZING...I am so proud of my friends!), and of course we all went to Cheeseburger afterward.

Here are some select highlights...of course I don't have any actual pictures with *me* and Aaron or Gemma. I'm silly.

Me and the Partners! I think this is the first picture I have with Katie's hot new haircut. And...Anna's just really happy ;)

Hannah says...Yes, I was amazing in The Adding Machine. And so was my hot gray hair.

I love my silly babies.

Lauren and Jamie are starting to come up on Michelle and Katie in the Ugly Face Game

Paaron Age and Fatalie Nehlner! Aaron + Natalie = True BFF Love

This is a completely natural and not-at-all-staged picture of Peter and I laughing gloriously.


So that was all fun and games.

Saturday, we were lazy...Gemma had to leave to get back to work, and Aaron and I had a bacon-and-egg breakfast, watched some Office and Extras, played with Hannah and Natalie at Panera, napped, watched more Office, and then we had the best time ever! Tiny Lisa came over, and I haven't seen her in what feels like an absolute eternity. I got my family's Fudgy Fudgy BonBons recipe from my grandma, and Aaron and I had gotten all the ingredients earlier. So Lisa came over, we ordered pizza, and we made bonbons and drank wine (and beer and liquor) together! It was absolutely fabulous, and while Aaron was napping I bought some Christmas music on iTunes, because I had absolutely nothing, so we listened to mostly the Elf soundtrack and songs that make me think of Christmas.

After the bonbons were finished and we had all talked on the phone to Jordan (who is visiting Nick and ACT in San Fransisco! and who saw some freaking Matisses at San Fransisco's MoMA, the jerk), we all laid down on the air mattress in the living room together and watched A Muppet Christmas Carol together. And I may or may not have cried like a little baby. We ended the night with the genius Daniel Radcliffe episode of Extras, which was the most entertaining thing ever due entirely to Lisa's reactions. Oh, little Lisa.

So I'd say that was a pretty badass way to bring December in. I'm getting the feeling that I'm going to be feeling more holiday spirit-y this year than I have since I was a kid. I guess I have to occupy my grown-up time somehow!

Today I'll either do a bit of Christmas shopping, watch Home Alone 2 in my pajamas (shut up), watch Love Actually in my pajamas, work on my portfolio some more, or all three! And I'm definitely going to the gym. Damn pizza and bonbons.

Also, I'm developing an obsession with Christmas music, and I feel like it's possible I'll spend more money at iTunes than I will shopping for presents this month. Here's what's on my Christmas playlist so far:

1. Joni Mitchell, River (of course!)
2. Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now (blame Love Actually...whose soundtrack is not in iTunes! wtf?)
3. Elvis Presley, It's Now or Never (I don't know why it makes me think of Christmas, but I just love this song)
4. Louis Prima, Pennies from Heaven (Elf Soundtrack)
5. Ella Fitzgerald, Sleigh Ride
6. Lena Horne, Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
7. Ferrante & Teicher & Les Baxter, Sleigh Ride / Santa Claus Party
8. Leon Redbone & Zooey Deschanel, Baby, It's Cold Outside
9. Jim Reeves, Jingle Bells
10. The Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Nutcracker Suite
11. Elf Soundtrack, Christmas Island (for whatever reason, this song aparently has no artist. but it's cute)
12. Eartha Kitt, Santa Baby
13. Leon Redbone, Winter Wonderland
14. Eddy Arnold, Santa Claus is Coming to Town
15. Billy Preston, Nothing from Nothing
16. Elvis Presley, Blue Christmas
17. Frank Sinatra, You Make Me Feel So Young (not on the soundtrack, but it should be! it's such a great song)
18. Frank Sinatra, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
19. Ella Fitzgerald, Santa Claus is Coming to Town (because she's awesome)
20. Bing Crosby, It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas
21. The Drifters, White Christmas

That's it so far! Anyone else have any favorites?


I hope everyone's having a great weekend! And I guess the only thing left to say is...

I'm dumb

So, I did laundry today...and I put my jacket in my laundry...and my phone was in my jacket.

Sigh.

So it was a big pain in the ass and I had to buy a new phone and bug my mom at work so she could give me account information...bah!

On the bright side, I love my new phone.  Even though I've been playing with it all day instead of cleaning my apartment.  Ack!

Thus endeth NaBloPoMo, and hopefully the beginning of posts with less stupidity and more substance!

Let's go see a play!

Off to see the preview performance of The Adding Machine, starring a ton of my beautiful babies! K-Roll and I are meeting soon for some wine at Schooners in a few. But the coolest part of this weekend? Aaron Page and Gemma Smith are going to be my houseguests! Hooray! They arrive tomorrow to see the show, then Aaron and I are going to go play with Morgan White, one of the sexiest men alive, in Norfolk.


Anyway. Time to be deeply disturbed and extremely proud at the same time! I love theatre.

A bit o' Thanksgiving

Hazel made herself a little hammock under the bed

"What are you doing, sis?"

Making the compote! (Or compost, as I re-christened it)

First course: Foie Gras!
I have like 8 million more, but Blogger is being stupid, so this is all we get tonight!

New music!

I'm a really weird person when it comes to music. I tend to live in my happy bubble of Dylan and showtunes everything else that I love and it takes a lot for me to listen and get into new music - even if it's a new Dylan album! I just have this OCD thing about needing to know the lyrics to whatever I'm listening to, so I usually just don't want to use the extra brainpower to learn new songs.

(How weird does the above paragraph make me?)

HOWEVER...

Kendra gave me Tegan and Sara's new album, The Con, a couple weeks ago, and I put it on this morning while I was going on a cleaning frenzy in my room, and I am in love. I fell in love with Tegan and Sara around this time-ish last year when I was obsessed with season 2 of Grey's Anatomy and forced Kendra to make me CD's of the amazing music that's on the show, which of course lead to a mix with like 8 Tegan and Sara songs, so she wound up just making me a bigass CD of the two albums of theirs that she had. So now the music makes me think of fall...and Terminal Bar.

Anyway. In conclusion, Tegan and Sara are awesome and that is my post for the day. Blah.

OH! Also. I have been TERRIBLE about reading and writing as of late. To be fair, a big chunk of that time was devoted to portfolio-ing. But also to be fair, that's not really an excuse.

I fiiiiiiiiinally finally finally finally finished Heartbreaking Work after like 8 years. That's probably the longest it's ever taken me to finish a book in my entire life. It's a tough book to get through. It's not bad, it's just difficult. And kind of disjointed and insane.

So, new reading list:

Tartuffe by Moliere (it's been like 2 weeks since I've read a play. bad me!)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (It was like 1 dollar at a used bookstore sale and all proceeds went to breast cancer research, so I bought it and it's been sitting on my bookshelf for a year and a half. Plus, Oprah recommended it. Let's be serious)

Finally, I have to say that as amazing as Thanksgiving was (and pictures are coming soon!), it is completely insane how much better I felt after two days of being back into my classes/routine at the gym and eating my insane everything-is-whole-wheat-and-multigrain Trader Joe's food. I walked and did crunches and stuff at Megan and Joe's, but it wasn't the same. I think I'm addicted. This will be a problem once I cease to have all the time in the world and in fact have NO time at all. I have to figure out how to make this whole thing work when I don't have 2 1/2 hours every day to go to the gym and forever to make meals!


In conclusion (for real this time), I love Tegan and Sara. And go buy The Con.


Pretty Canadian lesbian twins!

(But...not with each other.)

Thanksgiving Preview

Oh yeah. Get ready.

I love you, Baltimore...

Haven't gone through my Thanksgiving pictures yet (oy - that'll take forever), so here are my belated Baltimore ones! It's pretty much just me & Jane being idiots, there's really nothing of the actual city or the beautiful friends that I saw. I suck.

Jane's hot new haircut (that she did herself! crazy art kids)

Look! I'm about to go see art!

Nothing happened.

I don't remember.

We're so dumb!

Most people, when coming home completely smashed (off of a single glass of red wine - pathetic!) would go straight to bed. Jane Barton puts her hair up and eats a salad first.

Too cool for school with her hot chocolate in the kickass crepe place next to the Everyman Theatre.
Beatrice & Hero await a new incarnation of their favorite play :) :) Jim Jack was an amazing Benedick and the show was fantastic!

Weird.

Today I did two things I haven't done in literally years:

1) Watched football.

2) Bought & decorated a Christmas tree.

It feels like 5 or 10, but is more likely 3 or 4 years since I"ve done these things.

It's weird.

Menu

Here is why I am still in a food coma:

1) Foie gras with a cranberry, shallot, and dried cherry compote
2) Endive salad with stilton and pecans
3) Sweet potato and gruyere souffle
4) Asparagus with sage and pancetta
5) Homemade parmesean/herb bread
6) The best gravy ever. Actually, it was the first gravy I'd ever had
7) Turkey with a sage, pancetta, and butter mixture in between the skin and the meat
8) Chocolate lava cake for dessert

GUH.

Sleepy already!

I've not had as much sleep as I've been used to these last 48ish hours...so I'm dangerously close to crashing even now! I get the feeling my sleep cycle will be drastically altered in a very short time.

Our menu for tomorrow night is so amazing I can't even comprehend it. I shall try to document it as well as I can! I'm so excited. I'm going to have sweet and savory dreams tonight!

Thanksgiving! WTF?

Can you freaking believe Thanksgiving is in TWO DAYS? I'm so excited. It's proably my favorite holiday. Though I do have a soft spot for Valentine's, despite my turbulent history with it...and my terminal singleness...it's still awesome!

I've barely unpacked my suitcase from Baltimore and I'm about to pack it again, as soon as my clothes are dry. I love travelling and vacations and driving, so it's all very exciting. I'm pretty sure this is going to be the most decadent, wonderful, fun, amazing Thanksgiving EVER. I just wish my mommy could come down to NC with Megan and I :( It'll be my first Thanksgiving without her. Meep.

I so can't wait for Thursday. I'm spending all day long in the kitchen with my sister (who is, for those who don't know, a TRAINED CHEF) - just me & her, making some dinner. I've never had such a heavy hand in the creation of Thanksgiving dinner, so I'm pretty sure it'll be the most badass day of my life. Meg called last night so we could go over the menu...and good GOD. We're having foie gras along with the turkey, first of all, which is VERY exciting - and she's going to do this butter/pancetta/sage mix thing and rub it under the skin of the turkey before baking...or something. So it's going to be a vaguely Italian themed menu. We're also doing a sweet potato suffle with gruyere cheese. And I can't even remember everything else we said. It's going to be so amazing!

In other news, I went ahead and e-mailed a resume/cover letter to The Shakespeare Theatre in DC - there are two jobs available for Feb 19thish through May 30thish (Assistant Director and Directorial Assistant...fun with semantics). Steven's still not giving me any answers about Yoder so I'm just trying to keep putting myself out there so I'll at least have the possibility of other options, even if it doesn't pan out. If that makes sense. Tamara had sent me the e-mail about these opportunities a couple weeks ago, so...we'll see.

Off to pack!

Good times.

I'm hanging out with my roomie and Raymond King (aka King of Lame aka King Dumb...we had a creative evening) and I'm buzzed, so I don't feel like posting! Bah!

So here:

CenterStage...

...is amazing.

Jane and I are loving Baltimore :)

The world's gonna wake up and see...

...Baltimore and ME! And JANE!

Be seriously jealous :)

Gah!

I totally almost went to bed without doing an entry for today. Silly me!

Especially silly me when I have AMAZING NEWS.

Guess who's coming to Baltimore with me?

Only one of the prettiest most amazing girls in the entire history of human existence.

JANE!

That's right, my beautiful best friend from high school, my cousin, my sister, my love...I'm so freakin excited words can't even describe it. Everything happens for a reason, and even though I was disappointed Garth couldn't come and that none of my girl/gay friends here could come, this weekend will be so, so perfect with Jane. She needs to get away from the stresses of school & such, and she just needs a break. So I am happy to oblige!

Plus, her homework this weekend is to draw a nude seated figure. Guess who's totally capable of sitting down naked?

This is especially perfect because 1) Going to see a lecture/exhibit on Matisse with an art student will be so wonderful and 2) We're going to see Much Ado. We are (or were, anyway) Hero and Beatrice. Let's be serious!

It'll be wonderful. I love my girl. Jane is one of those people who I know, without a shadow of a doubt, will be a part of my life forever and ever. We don't talk all the time and we don't see each other all the time, but we always catch each other when we need each other.

My pretty girl graduates from high school! Class of '05. Jesus. Ignore the extra fat in my face and just pay attention to the extra fat in my boobs.

She killed a man to get out of work to come to my graduation. I'm not sure how that worked, but yay, she was there! I so needed her, too :) :)


In other news, I found out from Garth that rehearsals for Edward II are not only going smashingly, but that I'm completely in love with one of the stars of the show. Oh, Randy, the times we had when I was a Queer as Folk fangirl. So all this means is that...I seriously, SERIOUSLY need to see this show. So stay tuned for developments on that.

Anyway! I'm up early tomorrow to pack & go to Pilates. So good night, all!

Portfolio Picture Poll!

Finally, a post with a purpose! And a really embarrassing amount of alliteration.

I've actually made some headway with my portfolio these last couple of days, which is terribly exciting. I went ahead and did something I wasn't going to do, which was to devote four pages to one show - Terminal Bar. The reason being that I wanted to include a full copy of the Limelight where we were on the cover. Cause, y'know. Kinda cool.

So in shuffling around all my stuff I realized that I have room for one more production shot (so long as it's vertical.) But I can't decide which one I want! It'd be nice to include one with Billy Harley because I have more with the girls overall, but there are some good shots of Carol too. (I already have my favorite sexy shot of Katie Parker in there. GUH.)

So - which one?

Sexy dance of death!

Different angle.

Holly is pure class.

Holly is a wee bit unbalanced.

Dwayne is symbolic. He's all about those metaphors.

Stupid November!

So, there's plenty I could write about today. But I don't feel like it, dammit! I'm only writing because of stupid nablopomo.

I'll probably get some writing done in Baltimore, actually. Two more days, sucka! It looks as though I'll be making the trip solo, unless Lauren can get out of work on Saturday. That's okay, though. It started out as a solo trip anyway. And I still get to see Jason and Jim Jack and some amazing theatre and freaking Matisse. Let's be serious. I'm so excited.

I was pretty blah and lazy this morning...I eventually got myself working on my portfolio (which I will be starting up again after Big Fat Loser...it is so intense, y'all! Amy better get sent home) and then shuttled my lazy, sleepy ass to the gym. As usual, it was the best part of my day! Yay for classes and psychotic teachers. PLUS...the only other Pilates class during the week aside from the Tuesday evening one is on Friday morning, so guess who's doing Pilates before taking over Baltimore? This guy.

I came home and FINALLY made pork chops simmered in cacciatore sauce...I've been craving it for like a week and O M G. What is up with pork chops being the best food EVER? I about died. I remember when Lauren and I first made it together (back when we were pseudo roomies!) we literally had to moan after every bite because it was so scrumptious.

It's movie time with the roomies after BFL, methinks...so see everyone tomorrow!

We happy few.

So, seriously, this is freakin ridiculous. It takes like 10 minutes to upload pictures to this damn thing, and I tried to upload four more and after 15 minutes I got an error message.

W T F? Why don't you like Max? :(

So here are a few pictures from this weekend that I'm too lazy to caption at the moment.