hiatus from blogging is over

last day of school was june 5. we had a clean-up day, painted my office wall back to white (it was grape jelly-purple), threw lots of stuff away, moved stuff around preparing for the summer, and i bid the place goodbye. i was tempted to steal the red velvet couch but did not.

once again i have found that when you make your desires known, they tend to manifest in real time. i had written down this quote, but i don't remember where i found it: "If you don't articulate your conscious desires, your unconscious patterns will come true." seems like both an exhortation and a warning, don't you think?

so some exciting things are happening:

a really wonderful relationship is developing with the people of the AtticRep theatre company, and i'm now a company member as well as educational outreach director. currently we are putting together acting workshops to take into schools this coming year. also, i will be appearing in two of their plays next season, TRUE WEST (sam shepard) and THE GOAT, or WHO IS SYLVIA? (edward albee). i will also be working with the classic theatre company on THE GLASS MENAGERIE, which starts rehearsals in august.

right now i am directing a play called THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by scott mcdowell, with a very talented group of actors at the overtime theatre. this play was written by a local writer and it is a 50's film noir detective mystery. it's going well. we finished blocking last night, are thinking up some interesting ideas for lighting and staging, and we open on august 1st.

i'm going to the coast this weekend with david. i haven't been to the texas coast in a long time-- though i've been near it, i haven't made a beach trip since i was a teen. how weird. so i'm really looking forward to that.

favorite music in my world recently: noise for pretend, vampire weekend, american princes, slow runner, philip glass's saxophone album, balkan beat box, foals, joan as police woman, and the new martha wainwright album.