Smiling in the face of mankind

This weekend was completely fabulous. It was filled to the brim with adventures with my mom and with gorgeous TheaterCNU friends & babies. I also had a very exciting Friday night all by my lonesome - the plan was to watch Part II of No Direction Home and work on my portfolio...but instead I decided to make pasta, watch Part II of No Direction Home, drink red wine, and then watch High Fidelity. Oops. But seriously...that combination just lead to bliss.

In fact, the only bad part of my weekend: my poor portfolio was totally neglected. I did sit down with it a bit on Saturday, but then that was more of me realizing that I need a box cutter and a straight edge and I'm going to have to figure out how the hell I'm going to make high-quality resized copies of newspaper articles and paperwork and also wondering what the hell I should put in it aside from the obvious pictures & programs. Gulp.

But Saturday was great - I spent pretty much the whole day with Billy Harley, my little! We haven't played together in a million years, so we just spent the day playing and gossiping and catching up like we do. In the evening, my mommy came over!! We had dinner at good ol' Schooners and saw The Tempest together, and it was just an indescribably fun and wonderful evening. I got to show her off and re-introduce her to my friends and to Steven and the wonderful folks at Ferg, and she really enjoyed the show. I love my mommy :)

Afterward I went & partied with the kids...we went to the haunted house in the old student center and then did some drinking on the dry campus. Oh, CNU Apartments!

Sunday was just as wonderful...I had brunch with dear, sweet, amazing, one-of-a-kind Aaron Page and joined by Natalie, Lisa, and Jordan! There was much laughter and gossip. I headed over to the theatre again after that, because Carol Wilson is very silly.

Carol has taped the shows at TheaterCNU - all of them - for free - since her freshman year. She's provided an invaulable service to the department that everyone appreciates...but for this show, which she is the lead in, which is awesome and beautiful...there wasn't goign to be a tape! WTF, I say! So I told her to stop being dumb and to give me her camera, so I made my documentary-filmmaking-directorial-debut yesterday. It's probably a shakey and trippy and embarrassing filming job, but it's better than nothing! So that was fun.

Afterward, I celebrated not having to strike (benefits of graduation, suckas!) by going home and watching Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I studied it in Playwriting last year and a bunch of my actor-friends did scenes from it for Scene Study, but I've never seen a production of it (or, obviously, the film). I looooooved it! Elizabeth Taylor was phenomenal, and Sandy Dennis was really compelling...I kind of hated her for the first 10-15 minutes she was onscreen, but as soon as Honey got wasted she was amazing. It was just a wonderful ensemble of actors overall, and it's such a staggeringly intense play/script/story/whatever.

Finally, the weekend was concluded by joining Tempest people at Schooners. Good times were had by all, and I had special bonding time with the cutest girl in the world, miss Jamie Monahan.


So...yes. That's the conclusion of Everything You Didn't Really Care To Know About My Weekend ;)

I'd like to say that I'm going to work on my portfolio this week, but the truth is I don't think I'll be able to make much progress until I can devote a big chunk of time specifically for it, and when I can run out and make copies of stuff when I need to. I'm going to buy a box cutter and a straight edge on my lunch hour today (I actually don't know what I'm looking for, I'm going on a very vague memory of what Kathy showed me at the last portfolio workshop...so I may very well wind up empty handed), but my routine as of late is pretty much Work, Gym, Cook A Lot, Go to Bed Early. I think I just have to make sure that I devote a considerable chunk of time this Sunday to work on it. So, Sunday it is!

I didn't go to the gym this weekend. Bad me.

As to my reading list...arg! I need to somehow get my head back into Heartbreaking Work because right now I'm just reading it when I only have like 10 minutes and because it's such dense, rambling prose it's hard to focus or enjoy it. As for Twelfth Night and Another Part of the Forest...I should finish the latter today (and it's really just a ginormous southern soap opera - which is great fun, but it's not as well-written as Little Foxes) and as for the former...I'll at least knock out Act III. My brain is losing steam and I'm losing discipline! Gah!

In conclusion, I have Both Sides Now by Joni stuck in my head, and due to some freak miracle, it's actually not making me depressed even though it's one of the saddest sounding songs ever (and it makes me think of sad Emma from Love Actually)

Also! In conclusion (again), I leave you with my current favorite quote, courtesy of Mr. Shakespeare:


The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
-Prospero, The Tempest-