…i mean, just because i haven’t found my actual soul mate, the man who also knows the arthur and celeste song and maybe knows even more of the words than i do…
at least there are some people out there. reading what i have to say. making contact with me, even though i sort of live in a vacuum in many ways.
craig, for example, sent me many links for finding the song. one of them i’d already found myself, and i haven’t looked at the other ones yet, but craig is a very dilligent and hardworking kind of fellow, clearly. we’re going to R23 when i go to LA, and i’m very excited about that (sushi). maybe i can even convince him to go hiking with me, because in reading his blog (krinkle.net), he’s clearly also a hiker.
i don’t find so many hikers out there.
somebody else e-mailed me and told me i should look for arthur and celeste on ebay. actually, V. (Victor) told me this just tonight. I had actually thought about this, but haven’t pursued it. as of yet. because of the extreme laziness. plus the busy-ness, what with cleaning up the dog puke because Numi did of course throw up after eating the plant. wouldn’t you?
the dogs are quiet now. it is very peaceful here. why aren’t i sleeping already, is an excellent question one might ask. i can’t give you a good answer at this time. winding down from my very busy night of rehearsal.
we ran through the first act tonight, and it was pretty terrible. lots of line-memorization issues. many many issues. have i mentioned that this is going to be jim hepworth’s finest role? i laugh every time he says his lines. but we haven’t done the first act since at least last wednesday, and so of course we were a little rusty. not so great.
but it’s going to come together. yeah, it will. pretty much.
here’s one thing i forgot to mention yesterday – in taking the dogs for a walk (which is a somewhat TORTUROUS ORDEAL because the dogs are so insane and get tangled up a lot and Noodle is straining at the leash the entire time, just wanting to run like the wind), i noticed MANY MANY XMAS DECORATIONS still up. STILL UP.
it’s the END OF JANUARY, for god’s sake. TAKE DOWN THE DAMN DECORATIONS.
i don’t want to even think about xmas. it’s VERY VERY OVER. it was a little bit of a non-event for me this year, but even if it’d been the xmas to beat all xmas’s, i still DON’T WANT TO SEE ANY MORE DAMN DECORATIONS.
i’m sure i wrote about this last january, but i really, sincerely, feel that people need to be HEAVILY FINED for keeping their damn decorations up this long. not only are there all kinds of annoying garland with bows festooning doorways and windows, there are also many many lights WHICH ARE STILL LIT.
so it’s not like they forgot to take down the decorations, THEY’RE PURPOSEFULLY KEEPING THEM LIT.
my alternate idea to heavy fines is going around and tearing down the decorations, or shooting out the lights, but this would probably result in me getting arrested, which i’m not too keen on. at this time.
today when running on the treadmill at fit club WEST, i was happy to do so because there are individual TVs and so i could flip the channels the entire time. first i watched some really old donald duck cartoon which was entertaining, but i had to see what else was on. i watched a little of something about women in prison, and MAN was it depressing. so that’s why i don’t want to be arrested, because i don’t want to be in jail.
this one really old lady was in for killing her boyfriend or husband. she related the story – he’d put her head through a refrigerator door and when she woke up covered in blood, he was lying on the bed and he told her to go cook him whatever it was that he’d asked her to cook before, and if she said anything he’d give her more of the same. so she pulled her gun from under the mattress and shot him. dead.
i mean, wouldn’t you?
it was depressing.
then i watched some of “irreconcilable differences,” with ryan o’neal and shelley long and drew barrymore and sharon stone who is very very young in the movie, and i love that film. i wanted to keep running because i wanted to watch more of it. i haven’t seen it in a very long time, but it’s good. you should rent it if you haven’t seen it, or even if you have. it’s funny to see drew as a child. in a scene at a new year’s party, she drinks a bunch of champagne, and it’s kind of sad because you know the rocky path she’s going to go down as a child star with all those famous kinfolk. relatives. kinfolk is reserved for people in appalachia, isn’t it?
kinfolk, though, that word kind of resonates nicely.
kinfolk.
V. told me a woman he knows named amanda loves me. she loves my writing, anyway. that was nice to hear, being loved by random people i’ve never met. she reads this website. maybe you wouldn’t like me so much in person, amanda. you never know. sometimes i’m quite aloof. surly, even.
i’m not really aloof. and never truly surly. i aspire to aloofness, because that way people would want to try to figure me out, and they’d want to try to break through the huge aloof barrier that i put up.
i feel that i’ll never achieve aloofness.
oh well. maybe if i keep working at it. it seems like too much trouble right now.
also, this volunteer at the hospital, aileen, informed me that her son saw me at the magic kitchen restaurant the other day at lunch. i said i didn’t see him because i don’t know what he looks like. Aileen has talked about her son quite a bit to me, so i felt it rude that he didn’t introduce himself. there was an alderwoman there, and we were very excited about this because she was one of the ones to vote YES on the no-smoking ban that’s going to take effect in september. Mom went over and told her how happy we were that she did that.
ok, one more thing before i fall asleep while typing…all day today i’ve been very worried, because amy and jim have four cats. one of them is named Mr. Kitty, and he’s this enormous large great big cat who is very affectionate and loving and nice.
i let him out sometime yesterday, and this morning i realized he wasn’t in the house, and he wasn’t outside clamoring to get in, and all day long i kept calling him, and no Mr. Kitty. This was very disturbing because i’m IN CHARGE OF MAKING THE PETS STAY ALIVE, plus i wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to him because he’s a very nice cat.
i felt that something bad must have happened because he’d be HUNGRY because he’s so big and fat.
tonight when i was leaving for rehearsal, in he sauntered. what had he been doing? where was he all night and all day? did he go visit somebody who fed him hot dogs and cheddar cheese?
i don’t really know what would tempt Mr. Kitty in terms of treats, but he looks like a meat and cheese kind of fellow.
Mr. Kitty is safe now. things are good.
things are pretty darn good.
at this little moment, anyway.
but tomorrow morning, i’m sure that Surly Grace will take over, because i won’t have had enough sleep. so WATCH OUT.
ok ok ok,
tuesday (is it only TUESDAY???) night grace.