Whew! Busy couple of days, no time for blogging :(

Pictures from the show are up at www.riversidetheatreworks.com. They aren't that good - the costume lady took them ;) - but I'm the girl in the black dress with the purple fringe - it's just gorgeous, dahling - and the huge, foofy wig. And in the sex scene, the first photo, I'm the one with my back to the camera wearing the white lace thing ;P This is our last weekend, and I'm going to miss doing the show/being on stage. I have no idea how to find out about other auditions in the boston area, as most of the cast members are in school and found out through postings there, but I really do want to do another show. Esp. since, as of the end of this month, all but one of my single girlfriends will have moved out of the state :( But I'm excited because - after she gets back from a novel workshop - I'm going to get to meet my first OWW in person! I hope I don't scare her too much ;P

Bought research books for Magpie yesterday. Fifty bucks, but well worth it. One is on Chinese art and symbolism, the other on daily life before the Mongol invasion. Honestly, my bookshelves are the most ecletic mix of...stuff...thanks to my writing! Books on Iceland rub shoulders with Celtic mythology, next to books on herbs (want sections with healers to be accurate), pleasures and pastimes of medieval england, and all sorts of stuff. Then I wrote seven pages - woo hoo - and worked on edits of Soul Stone. Almost done - and then the real hack job begins! :P

Went to dance class Wed. - awesome routine, kicked my butt. Three weeks off is not a good thing. But I was on that night, and felt it, and that's such a good feeling. All the legs going up high where they're supposed to, the body moving, sweat pooling at the base of my back, the waistband of my pants, and under my, well, what on me, pass for breasts. It just feels so damn good! Satisfying! But I can't go next week because I have a farewell potluck for a friend Wed. night ;( People need to stop scheduling stuff on Wed., that's all there is to it. (What, the world doesn't revolve around me? Since when? How did I miss that memo? :P)

And no phone call :( His number is two days away from being erased from the cell. Sigh. I think I'll stick to the men I write - they do what I want them to! Well, sometimes. Not really. Kind of?

- D

Which of Henry VIII's wives are you?

this quiz was made by the groovtastic ghouls at Spookbot

Just read over past few days posts.

Am I PMS-ing or what?

Watch out for rampaging panda bear in bad mood!

Argh!

Three days and counting and he hasn't called.
And I refuse to call him cuz I'm a stubborn Scorpio and JUST ONCE I want the guy to put more effort into something than I do.

Yeah, right, that'll happen.

F**king A.

I went to college to be a trained monkey.

Really.

I spent my entire morning entering numbers into spreadsheets. Then I copied, cut and pasted until my eyes crossed. Then I checked a printed out report against the spreadsheet, security by security - all 1,000 plus of them, to make sure the bond ratings matched.

If I'm still doing this when I'm thirty, shoot me and put me out of my misery.

Things I'd like to have before I die:

1) House on the ocean with a shower in the backyard for hot summer days.
2) Dog - boxer or black lab
3) Bosendorfer piano
4) A day that goes as follows:
- Wake up next to a man I love...slowly and sweetly ;)
- Go for an omelette at a cafe over the river
- Walk around a seaside town, holding hands, looking at the ocean, just talking
- Eat lunch at a sidewalk cafe
- Browse in a bookstore for a couple of hours
- Go home and take a nap. To sleep. Really.
- Wake up, shower and go for dinner at an amazing restaurant. Or make something out on the deck and eat it sitting in each other's laps
- Go to a play/movie/sit at home on the couch in front of the fireplace with a good book.
5) The World Fantasy award. Among others ;)
6) A child.

Hmmmm....does this read like a bad personal ad? ;)

I'm bored at work, can you tell? :P

At 11am today I finished all the work I have to do for the month. Ugh.

Feeling very productive. Finished edits on Soul Stone up to Chapter 14, which leaves me three chapters to go. Of course, they're the ones that need the most work...but it's progress! My neck is killing me, I was a bad girl and stayed up late reading last night, and then spent this morning hunched over a manuscript. Right now I'm typing into Word the changes I made on hard copies. I'd like to finish all my first-run changes today, print out the manusript, and have this weekend to read it over/mark it up for bigger, structural changes. Notice I said "like to" :)

Iced my shin splints last night. Ouch. They were really inflamed after teaching kick-boxing yesterday (though class went well). Tonight is Bible study...but I'm so tired! And the thought of driving back into the city...blah! :P But I'm supposed to go out for my friend Mariah's b-day tonight afterwards, and blowing her off wouldn't be nice :(

I am a freak.

I just went to the breakroom and got ice out of the freezer, put it in a plastic baggy, went back to my cube and tied it to my neck with a pair of dance tights I had in my desk.

I am a freak. :P

- D

Woo hoo!
There was a new Alias last night :) I'm so happy :) Yeah, yeah, so I'm easily pleased :P

Friday night's show went badly, to say the least. We just weren't "on." Three of my friends came, but only one of them liked it. They sat at the front table with their arms crossed the whole show. I felt really bad because they obviously weren't enjoying themselves. And then I got stuck in mad traffic going home - it took me three hours! Raise your hand if you hate the Big Dig! - but luckily Tim called so I was able to pass time talking to him for an hour and a half of it. I sung him to sleep - a very bad rendition of Lean on Me - which is sooo not in my range, but oh well! :P

Sat. I woke up and went grocery shopping - yeah, food! - and then went home and cooked up a storm. I made homemade black bean and tomato soup, and this dill/chickpea/feta/orzo salad. So now I should have enough food for the next week. And, of course, I made my infamous no-bake cookies ;) The show was awesome Sat. pm, we were all so into it, and the audience loved it. Afterwards a group of us went out to the Parrish Cafe for drinks/food. So it was another late night ;0

Sun. I dug up more receipts for my taxes. Ugh. I owe so much money. I hate the IRS. I hate the fact that - because I'm single with no kids - I owe all this money that I don't have! I was going to work on writing, but taxes took up all my free time. Then I had to run to the show - which was good - and from there to church. I made it in time for the end of the sermon and the last three songs. "Anger is an aversion to forgiveness" was the topic - ouch. Love it when God hits you where it hurts, huh?

Currently, I'm trying to raise money for the MS Walk next weekend, choregraphing my kick-boxing class today, and planning on finishing the next two chapters of edits in Soul Stone. Hopefully. We'll see. Maybe? Bleh! :)

- D