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Snow Day
I am trying to remember exactly what I did on snow days. I remember loving them. They were rare, and maybe that alone was enough to make them appealing: it wasn’t so much what I did but what I wasn’t doing, namely school. Not that I disliked school. Part of me thinks that anyone who grew up to become a dramaturg probably liked school to some degree. But there is a certain gleefulness in...
Pencil Shavings
I remember the ritual of preparing for the first day of school. Going to Walmart or The Container Store to pick out trapper keepers or colored pencils or cool things to decorate my locker with. I remember the smell of my Jansport backpack. It was always a rush to pick out new school clothes with my mom and then go home and try everything on again by myself, dancing in front of my full-length...
Homecoming
Today several of us got up at 9:00 and met at Kyra’s house to pull her couch into Michelle’s van. I love our morning meetings. We coaxed the couch down the three flights of stairs with an energy that could be described as giddiness (or grunting). Michelle, our newest company member, brings with her an exuberant passion for design and hard work. This was the first morning that we realized...
Glad tidings of great joy!
Hello friends – just a quick note to let you know that we are going home tomorrow!
Although our contract is still two signatures from completion, our outstanding LPCC manager had a brilliant “plan b” that has just come through. She has in her hands a signed partnership agreement allowing us to use the auditorium for rehearsal while our contract continues its merry journey through...
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Memory Lapses
I have no memory for names. I used to, and oddly I can recall names — some of them anyway — that were stored before September of 2000. Nothing particularly magical happened in September of 2000. I did start college, but my lifestyle did not change significantly in terms of the intake of potential memory-washing substances. But I am fairly certain this is about when the deterioration of...
