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September 10, 2005

Catching Up

Lots of little things in my life right now. Just little events, mostly separate from one another, so this entry will be a bit disjointed.

I've been asked to create the study guide for 1000 Cranes. Very exciting, since it's also going to have CD-ROM and online components. I'll get paid and it's great experience for me.

Along that same line, I spoke with the instructor for the Not-for-Profit Arts Admin class I took last spring. He doesn't have anything for me right now, but may have admin and research type stuff for me later on (next semester) if some grants come through. And he paid me some lovely compliments re: my ability to work in arts administration. He said the quality my work was far above most of the other students in the class and at a level he would associate more with a colleague than with a student. He even told me that I would be fantastic in Arts Administration. So that was good, since that's part of running a theatre company, which I will hopefully be doing someday.

Also, I shredded the last of the student paperwork I'd been saving. I still have final grade and attendance sheets, in case people have questions, and I'll keep those around for a while, but I figure that at this point, no one wants their papers back. If they did, they'd have asked already. I ended up with 5 paper grocery bags full of confetti. It took 2 hours.

And I talked with one of my sisters-in-law on Friday, which was just really nice. Eli and I get on so well, I really like her, and we don't get much chance to chat since she lives in Denver and I live in BFIdaho.

I am so fortunate. Of the five women who are sisters by marriage, I know three of them fairly well, and they are all lovely. One is a new addition and I haven't had a chance to get to know her yet, but I get good reviews from my husband and others.

On Thursday, I watched Act I of Death of a Salesman twice (once in each class). I found myself wondering what it must have been like to see it when it opened. So much has changed in American life and culture and attitudes since 1949. It's still a powerful drama, but it must have had an unimaginable impact on its original audiences. They would have understood all of the references and language without having to try.

I must admit that I am not looking forward to seeing Act II twice on Tuesday when I sub for Nancy again. It's just not a happy play.

I am so glad, though, that I'm doing this work down at LC. After two days of Nancy's acting class, once participating and working with the students and once leading the class, I am further into my body than I have been since I blew out my knee. It's fantastic. I'm beginning to connect the parts of me on either side of my waist again, and I hadn't done that for months. I miss my thighs, they're essential in acting, and I've been acting from the waist up. So it's great to get my whole body back together again.

Plus, I love teaching.

I've also been doing some ink drawings on watercolor backgrounds for my latest series of Artist Trading Cards. They're turning out pretty nicely. Today I'm playing with fixatives to see what will allow me to work over it with other media.

I don't want the ink to run when I glue over it like the ink did on my last cards. This is an entirely different style of stuff, and the running ink will just kill it. The problem, of course, is that there is no true art supply store in the area, so I have to go to Michael's to see what they have, which is pretty limited, since that chain caters more to the craft crowd than to the art crowd. I should ask around the Women's Art Caucus and see where they get their supplies.

And now that I've shown my friend Maggie my collection and described the process to her, she's raring to make some herself. Which is nice. I'm about 15 years younger than the next youngest artist. I need someone my own age to play with sometimes.

That's my past few days. Lots of little things, no big themes, no major projects. Lots of little stuff. And now I realize I have an audition on Monday that I need to prepare for. The Directing Class has lots of students and each of them will be directing a scene with 2-3 people, which means they need LOTS of actors. I figured I'd toss myself in as a possibility. I won't be hurt (much) if I'm not cast, but it would be good work for me and helpful to the class to have enough actors.

Posted by sally at September 10, 2005 01:38 PM

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