Back to Reality

I was chastised for being lax in my posting, and I couldn't deny it. I can only defend myself by saying the past three weeks have felt like they were separate from real life. I think the holidays can often feel that way anyway, but it just felt especially so this year for some reason. The house, the holidays, the three shows I'm working on. It does that.

But now we're back in it. Routine. Structure. Deadlines. All good stuff for me at the moment.

Caligula rehearsals start tonight, and I'm super excited for it. Amy and I taped out the rehearsal space this weekend, which is awesome. I love working with Steve Kath, he's so on top of things and well prepared. Having the space taped before the first rehearsal just feels like we're set to stay ahead of the game.

Jekyll and Hyde goes into tech next weekend. I have almost all the props bought/borrowed/pulled. Just a few more items to get, and then some more detailed work - printing out the notes and letters, adding "blood" stains to a sheet, that sort of stuff. I also need to find a few more items for set dressing. Then I find out if the director likes my choices or not, and be pleased with the ones he does, and fix the ones he doesn't. We'll see how it goes.

I still have to type up notes for Earnest and get those to Ellen. I am going to finish that today, and then my job is on hold until the script is picked and I can start making a props list. It's not until June, so I have plenty of time, but I'm going to try to get Earnest done by mid-April so I can go into Robots without having to worry much about it.

No new progress on the house. I have a few things I'm going to try to fix shortly, just to make it more comfortable for us, but then I'll be limited to working on the weekends for a little while. All the weekends that aren't taken up by tech or Ptolus or other events, obviously. So...I'll have like a day in January to start work on Justin's office. I should be able to get the upstairs done by the end of February, I think. I'd like to get it done by then, so that when I'm between Caligula and Robots I can focus on the bathrooms and basement, and prepping things for spring.

I do so much better when I have lots of things going on, and lots of structure to my time. I sometimes wish I was better at self-motivating, and not needing a deadline to make myself accomplish things, but I suppose it could be argued that since I sign-up for these projects, I am self-motivating in a way that is proven to work. They're not my own independent projects, but that's probably better anyway.

Oh yeah, I'm also working on my 50 Book Challenge. I have 2 books completed, and one that's about 5 pages from being completed, and one more started. Justin said I was trying to get all 50 books done in January. Not quite, but I did want to make a strong push to get a bunch done early on, so if I have time when I slack I won't fall too far behind. So far all the books have been pretty good. Nothing life changing, but good.

I'm also working on three knitting projects. Yeah...I might be overloading with projects. Just a little.