October
Listening to: Rusted Root- "When I Woke"
Site of the Day: Floyd County Virginia Tourism Directory
Interesting News Story of the Day: Three Suicide Bombers Carried Out Bali Attacks
Bush chooses his personal lawyer to fill vacancy in Supreme Court
Why Stasi spied on future Pope
Voyage to the Great Outdoors
The Mysterious Mekong Starts to Reveal Itself
Vassar's Alumnae House in Poughkeepsie
Trevor Nunn to Direct New Tom Stoppard Play at Royal Court
Fuel-cell cars make Bay Area pit stops
Romance Made Electric
Hydrogen fuel a distant reality
Deadly Hit-and-Run in Brooklyn
Car crashes into Washington Square Park
Young Boy Killed By Truck While Walking Home From Brooklyn School
Fire Rages in Midtown Hotel
New Subway Rules in Effect
Service Restored on New Jersey Transit
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Happy belated birthday to Paula, Tonya, and David.
I had trouble getting out of bed Saturday morning (tried to convince myself I could wear dirty business clothes rather than take the time to go to the dry cleaners and get to sleep an extra 30 minutes), but I eventually got out of bed with time to run my morning errands (dry cleaning and got a gift to bring Kristin's parents for when I stay with them next week).
Then I met Kristin down at the theatre for "Ladies of the Corridor"
After the show, we walked a lot- from the East Village over to the west side and down by the West Side Highway into Tribeca before heading back to the West Village (we had a while before the restaurant opened). Dinner was really good. I highly recommend the grilled lobster at Pearl Oyster Bar.
Other than dinner, the highlight of my day, and this is sad, was the fact that I didn't need any pee breaks from 12:30-19:30. It was amazing to make it through an entire show, a long walk, and dinner without needing to find a restroom.
I did start feeling lightheaded though just before dinner and felt lightheaded most of the rest of the night. I talked to Eytan that night, and he mentioned he feels lightheaded as a side effect from his medication. I'd bet that Lexapro has that side effect as well (it's a similar medication working on the brain). Kind of obnoxious that a side effect is one of the original symptoms. But if that is the case, the medication probably is working. I haven't had breathing difficulties in a while (not since mid September- haven't had an ocular migraine since then either, wonder if that has any correlation), just the lightheaded/dizzy nonsense and occasional headaches. I'm calling my doctor on Wednesday, so I'll talk to him about that (as well as the headaches- probably another side effect) then.
I called Janet a few times on Friday and Saturday and finally got a hold of her Saturday night. We're meeting on Wednesday afternoon to work on the groundplan and score the script (which means, I'll do the groundplan and score the script and tell her that's what we're doing and hopefully explain enough times for her to understand). Before I got a hold of Janet, I emailed Laura to see if she had a different phone number for her since every time I called, there was no answer or answering machine. She replied, telling me her contact numbers were in her office and she wouldn't be going there until Thursday. But then she wrote a fairly long apology for my having to work with Janet and that she told Janet it wasn't fair for her as an auditor to work with a student taking the class for a grade and that her non-effort will not effect my grade, etc, etc. So that was nice.
Traffic was atrocious Saturday night! And Sunday there was a street fair on Lex, so traffic was even worse than usual. And they're still digging up Lex- there are metal plates and cones all over the street for a few blocks.
I don't think I've mentioned recently that my living room heating/cooling unit and the floor damage still hasn't been fixed. Guess they'll do that after I move.
Sherry has been down in Florida to "help out" my Aunt Anne. Turns out she's down there so she can figure out how much money Aunt Anne has and how to get some of it. Aunt Anne caught her going through her personal papers, including her will. I knew Jay and Sherry were money oriented, but this seems a bit extreme. Not completely surprised though.
Turns out I can't get out of Thanksgiving after all. Neil doesn't like that I wouldn't be celebrating with them and Maxine really wanted to see the Macy's Parade one more time before I move. So they'll all be coming up here on Thanksgiving, but we'll be going out to a restaurant so I don't have to deal with coming up with a dinner. So in the next 2 months: Neil, Maxine, and Abby will be here 2 weekends, Neil will be here an additional 2 weekends, and Brian and Rebecca will be here 1 weekend. Too many visitors. Too many trips to the laundry room for all the sheets and towels from the visitors. Too much cleaning up after each visit.
Our country doesn't want people to grow. News media talk down to people- talking to us in a way that the lowest common denominator can understand and about subjects that aren't too complex. Religious sermons talk down to people- making everything about obvious subjects with no real in-depth understandings. Adults talk down to kids and only doing child-related activities with them does not help them grow and teach them about things they'll need to know. It's depressing.
Busy day today: work, school stuff, cleaning... Tomorrow I'm meeting Demi at Hunter to work on our avant-garde project, then I'll go down to Sunburst to work on a ton of acting stuff for a few hours before meeting Paula and Harvey for dinner at Los Dos Molinos. Wednesday I'm calling my doctor for the 4-weeks-of-medication update, meeting Janet to work on our acting scene, and then running some errands before coming home to work and write up the avant-garde assignment. Thursday Neil, Maxine, and Abby arrive. And I'll need to spend all day before class out of the apartment since we won't have water and I'll probably need lots of bathroom breaks. I'll work on acting stuff- there's always so much to do for that class. Then I have avant-garde. Friday is acting and then I'll go over to the Four Seasons to take a shower before the auction Friday evening. Saturday's the auction and going to the Dead Can Dance show too (since I got the ticket before the auction date got set- nice that Matt will be here to take over my job so I don't have to miss the show). Sunday I'll catch up on whatever I couldn't get done because of the auction as well as pack for Canada. Monday I leave for Halifax. Man, time flies.
Busy month ahead of me. I'll hopefully be able to write at least once a week so I don't get backed up too much.
Listening to: Yello- "One Second"
Site of the Day: Million Phone March (to bring the troops home now)
Interesting News Story of the Day: Subway, Traffic Affected after Tanker Trucks Crash
Two-Alarm Fire In Manhattan Apartment Building
Thousands Left Powerless After Transformer Fire
Human Error Blamed In Subway Derailments
Family Calls For Tighter Boating Laws (here we go again)
Snared in hit-and-run
Pedestrian struck, killed by van
Woman Fatally Struck While Waiting for Bus
Who Stabbed Bra Bra Bush?
Oscar Nominee Ed Harris to Star in World Premiere of LaBute's Wrecks
For the Next Big Thing, Look to Portugal
NO BULL
DO THE RIGHT THING
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Happy belated birthday to Jason and Olivier.
Monday night I had a dream I could ride a bike. I remember riding around the neighbourhood near my old Cedarcroft apartment. And I was in some kind of show, I think at Hunter. Ian was directing. There were a lot of other people involved, like Noha from Sudbrook. And the dream was much more complicated, between the bike riding and rehearsing and trying to deal with weird things I don't remember. I think it was a fun dream though.
Yesterday went well, for the most part. I met with Demi to work on the avant-garde project. That was fun once we got rolling. I like our ideas of political theatre and how to get people to wake up and take action. This is the first time I've been able to work on a project with someone who I already knew and have a lot in common with. We work well together- same wavelength, same work ethics- it was great. Then I worked on my acting report (did about 70% of it- still need to do the difficult part of the critique). Then I started not feeling so well (it was very humid yesterday), so I took a Lorazepam and felt better after (I was hoping to be done with those- I'll talk to my doctor about that too). Then I met Paula and Harvey at Los Dos Molinos- that was good (I like their spicy food) but brief (Harvey and I had a lot to do in the evening, so we made it a quick dinner). Then I came home to work on more acting nonsense. I was talking with Demi about all the work we have to do, and she was amazed that we have more work for acting II than she has for acting III. It's really obnoxious.
Oh, and in Union Square, I actually ran into someone I knew. I was running around trying to find a bathroom (the ones at Virgin were out of service, the ones at Starbucks had a huge line, so I finally went into Zen Palate), and there at a table, was Michael, a theatre student at Hunter. I haven't run into someone I knew in the city in about 4 years.
Today they were digging up my street for a change. The honking is out of control.
Met with Janet this afternoon to work on breaking down the units and tactics for our scene. We have to do a groundplan with preliminary blocking as well, but I figured I'd just do that myself since the units were enough for Janet to deal with. And... she couldn't even deal with those. She just doesn't get it. She doesn't understand what units are, she doesn't understand how to come up with tactics, and she doesn't even understand her character or the point of the scene. Oh, and she still doesn't understand the difference between stage directions and dialogue. And as for memorising lines, I thought she could ask if she could be on book for our performance. When I suggested that, she said she wouldn't be able to read from the script either, and she just wants to improvise the lines. If she does that, I sure hope she gives me a cue for my lines. I also told her to ask Laura for help with the tactics since I was getting nowhere with my explanations (and I did a very good job explaining- she's just completely clueless). Janet said she didn't want to ask Laura since she doesn't think Laura will want to take the time to help her because she's an auditor and also that she doesn't think she likes her and feels uncomfortable asking her questions. She either wants both of us to talk to her at the same time (I told her I couldn't do that because I couldn't take the time after class on Friday and then I'm going out of town) or she might talk to Laura herself but tell her she needs help because I don't like the way she's coming up with her tactics. I told her it's not that I don't like what she's doing, it's just that she was missing the point and I was trying to make suggestions that would work. She's impossible. So I just came home to finish working on my own tactics. I'll do the groundplan/blocking tomorrow morning.
I called my doctor today, but I got a call back from his receptionist telling me he was out until tomorrow because of Rosh Hashanah. I should have realised he wouldn't be there, but I didn't really think about it- I knew it was Rosh Hashanah since I didn't have classes, but I didn't put together that he's Jewish and therefore wouldn't be available. Hopefully he'll be available during the few free minutes I have tomorrow to talk.
I don't understand why those who were "born Christian" can decide to be Agnostic or Atheist and people accept that and no longer think of them as Christian. But people who were "born Jewish" and decide to be Agnostic or Atheist people still consider them to be Jewish. Is that true with people born into other religions and choose to practice a different religion or none at all? Do people consider them to be whatever they were born into or do people accept the change? Anyone know?
Having a good health day today.
Paula's not. Unfortunately with whatever she's allergic to (sesame oil or another type of oil other than olive oil), she really needs to stop eating out in restaurants since even if she orders something not cooked in oil, the pots used to make her dish could have oil left in it from a previous dish. So she got violently ill last night and it continues today. Hopefully she'll be okay in time for Friday's auction, but if not, we can get by without her (especially if all the logistics go smoothly so we don't need her to go after people to get things done- she's really the best person for that). But with the amount she travels, she's going to have a hard time with the eating issue, especially when she wants a warm meal.
Have a ton of little things to do before and after class tomorrow. Then comes the busy work weekend. I may or may not write again before I leave for Halifax.
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Still alive. Just ridiculously busy. No clue when I'll write again.
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