Fri 27 Aug 2004
Last night we were pummeled with storms.
I made myself a stiff pineapple vodka and whipped up some food. Than Josh and I started to watch the Olympics, but grew bored with track and field semi-finals and switched to Most Extreme Elimnation Challenge on Spike TV. I don’t know if this is something to fess up to or not, but I LOVE that show…it’s seriously my favorite thing on cable these days. It’s…well, you know Mystery Science Fiction 3000 where they comment over the old movies? It’s like that, only they’re dubbing over an asian game show involving crazy stunts for prizes. I’ve learned that this is a much better show when you watch it with someone else. It’s embarressing to be alone and guffawing out loud.
It’s funny how, with the weekend just ahead, the stress of this week doesn’t seems so bad. I thought I was going to lose it on Wednesday. How does one sustain the energy necessary to do the following:
1. Roll around the floor with 3-5 yr. olds while successfully speaking their kiddie jargon.
2. Jump around teaching theater to 14-16 yr olds. Again, this involved trying to crack the code and speak their language.
3. Sell leotards and tights–while successfully upholding our return policies. (C’mon people, tights are like underwear, you just can’t return them).
4. Rehearse a dance show, while running it, owning it, directing it, and finding some gosh darn creativity within it.
5. Teach modern dance (more rolling around), to akward pre-teens who can’t organize their left foot from their right.
6. Next week, we add rehearsals for Winter’s Tale to the mix.
I CAN DO THIS…I did all of this last year. Sure, it was hard and I had a brand new marriage to work on…but I did it. I can do it again…really.
August 27th, 2004 at 2:02 pm
Hate to nitpick… Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Geek test. I lose.
August 27th, 2004 at 5:51 pm
Anyone who really knows Mara will agree- the amazing thing is that she actually put the correct number of zeros after the 3!
August 27th, 2004 at 7:01 pm
Congrats on Winter’s Tale! It looks like fun. I like the lesser-known works. I’m going to go see Measure for Measure tomorrow. Do they pay you a nominal amount or is it strictly volunteer? I’s nice when they throw a pittance your way, but do they really think that $100 for six weeks of work is going to sway people to do it or not?
August 28th, 2004 at 8:42 am
Kimberly, typically I receive $140 for a month long run AND rehearsals.
August 30th, 2004 at 2:27 pm
Wait. What do you mean embarrassing? I watch MXC (that’s how cool kids say it, y’know…like MST3K)all the time… alone. Or do my cats count? What if they’re in the other room? Anyway, that show rules. BABAGANOOSH!! As far as rolling around with 3-5 year olds…well, I’ll refer you to my parole officer. I’m not knocking on doors again. Right you are Kenny!