Steamy Sarasota

I'm here in Sarasota! I'm alive! And I'm really, really hot. Luckily, I got to choose the bedroom with its own tiny window unit, but it's a struggling little thing. The real test will come tonight...my ideal sleeping conditions involve a freezing room with me buried under blankets. Needless to say, this will be a bit of an adjustment!

One of my supervisors, Rob Thomas, seems very nice and very cool...I got a tour of the theatre, which reminds me a little bit of Mad Cow if they had some extra buildings. That's a good and charming thing!

I'm at Whole Foods (yay!) using their Internets with one of my three roommates (the other two are due to arrive next week), Kathy from LA. She seems very cool and laid back - a true Californian.

I don't have much else to report...I spent a delightful afternoon unpacking and organizing my life (and wondering why the hell I have so many *clothes*) and putting my pictures up...I was vaguely reminded of my first day of college when I plastered my room with pictures of my high school family. Oh, changes.

Should go so we can grocery shop and then meet two of the other interns who were already here - hope everyone is well!

Fly away, Fay!

I'm sitting here watching my DREAM Project Runway!!! Chris March, my love, is back and they're designing for drag queens. God bless America.

However, I am not enjoying it as much as I might otherwise because I am SO SICK OF SITTING INSIDE WATCHING TV AND READING!!! This dang tropical storm needs to get the hell out of town. I'm thankful that there's no serious damage or flooding for us, but I'm starved for sunshine! Grandma and I are just going stir crazy.

On the bright side (ha), I'm reminded of just how stunningly gorgeous White Oleander is. It's a good book to read for me at this turning point in my life - all about independence and survival! Whoo! Of course, my cushy internship isn't quite the same as a foster girl going from one traumatic and beautiful adventure to the other...but nevermind. Next up - Eat, Pray, Love. I absolutely devoured that book like nobody's business the first time I read it back in March, so I'm going to try to absorb it a little better this time.

In a few short days, I'll be making the drive from Grandma's to Sarasota - which will hopefully be a mere 3 hours. I'm nervous, very excited, and very frightened by the idea that I might not have air conditioning in my bedoom (!). I can't count how many times in my life I have uttered the sentence, "Air conditioning is my favorite invention!" or "I need to be cold to fall asleep." Oh, universe. Always looking for ways to make me grow up and build character. Damn you.

Gotta run. This is going to be the most fabulous runway show in history...

One week

A week from now, I'll be on the road, leaving my beautiful Virginia for who knows how long!

Not much time to write at the moment, as I have to shower, try to straighten up all my junk that's cluttering Denise's gorgeous house, eat some lunch, give her kitty cats some extra love, and then head back to my old apartment for yet more Adventures in Moving! 

Plus I want to watch the Olympics as much as possible.  I'm totally excited about them this year.  I can't yet tell if I'm going to get to watch a lot of them because I'm not working or hardly any of them because I'm moving.  And, y'know, when I'm at my Grandma's next week I'll want to do some swimming and being outside of my own!

I've already said a good amount of goodbyes to some incredibly important people in my life, and I have more lined up for this week, but I'm really doing well.  One of the things I love the most about theatre (and let's face it, technology!) is that there are no real goodbyes.  It's all just until next time.  I love this place, and I've spent half my life in Virginia, but I'm starting to get antsy for what's next.

But for now, I have to get going if I want to be back at Denise's in time to watch swimming this afternoon!  Aaah!