…i mean, just because i haven\u2019t 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…<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
craig, for example, sent me many links for finding the song. one of them i\u2019d already found myself, and i haven\u2019t looked at the other ones yet, but craig is a very dilligent and hardworking kind of fellow, clearly. we\u2019re going to R23 when i go to LA, and i\u2019m very excited about that (sushi). maybe i can even convince him to go hiking with me, because in reading his blog (krinkle.net), he\u2019s clearly also a hiker. <\/p>\n
i don\u2019t find so many hikers out there.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t 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\u2019t you?<\/p>\n
the dogs are quiet now. it is very peaceful here. why aren\u2019t i sleeping already, is an excellent question one might ask. i can\u2019t give you a good answer at this time. winding down from my very busy night of rehearsal.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s finest role? i laugh every time he says his lines. but we haven\u2019t done the first act since at least last wednesday, and so of course we were a little rusty. not so great.<\/p>\n
but it\u2019s going to come together. yeah, it will. pretty much.<\/p>\n
here\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
it\u2019s the END OF JANUARY, for god\u2019s sake. TAKE DOWN THE DAMN DECORATIONS.<\/p>\n
i don\u2019t want to even think about xmas. it\u2019s VERY VERY OVER. it was a little bit of a non-event for me this year, but even if it\u2019d been the xmas to beat all xmas\u2019s, i still DON\u2019T WANT TO SEE ANY MORE DAMN DECORATIONS.<\/p>\n
i\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n
so it\u2019s not like they forgot to take down the decorations, THEY\u2019RE PURPOSEFULLY KEEPING THEM LIT.<\/p>\n
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\u2019m not too keen on. at this time.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s why i don\u2019t want to be arrested, because i don\u2019t want to be in jail.<\/p>\n
this one really old lady was in for killing her boyfriend or husband. she related the story – he\u2019d 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\u2019d asked her to cook before, and if she said anything he\u2019d give her more of the same. so she pulled her gun from under the mattress and shot him. dead.<\/p>\n
i mean, wouldn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n
it was depressing.<\/p>\n
then i watched some of “irreconcilable differences,” with ryan o\u2019neal 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\u2019t seen it in a very long time, but it\u2019s good. you should rent it if you haven\u2019t seen it, or even if you have. it\u2019s funny to see drew as a child. in a scene at a new year\u2019s party, she drinks a bunch of champagne, and it\u2019s kind of sad because you know the rocky path she\u2019s going to go down as a child star with all those famous kinfolk. relatives. kinfolk is reserved for people in appalachia, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
kinfolk, though, that word kind of resonates nicely.<\/p>\n
kinfolk.<\/p>\n
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\u2019ve never met. she reads this website. maybe you wouldn\u2019t like me so much in person, amanda. you never know. sometimes i\u2019m quite aloof. surly, even.<\/p>\n
i\u2019m 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\u2019d want to try to break through the huge aloof barrier that i put up.<\/p>\n
i feel that i\u2019ll never achieve aloofness.<\/p>\n
oh well. maybe if i keep working at it. it seems like too much trouble right now.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t see him because i don\u2019t know what he looks like. Aileen has talked about her son quite a bit to me, so i felt it rude that he didn\u2019t 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\u2019s going to take effect in september. Mom went over and told her how happy we were that she did that.<\/p>\n
ok, one more thing before i fall asleep while typing…all day today i\u2019ve been very worried, because amy and jim have four cats. one of them is named Mr. Kitty, and he\u2019s this enormous large great big cat who is very affectionate and loving and nice.<\/p>\n
i let him out sometime yesterday, and this morning i realized he wasn\u2019t in the house, and he wasn\u2019t outside clamoring to get in, and all day long i kept calling him, and no Mr. Kitty. This was very disturbing because i\u2019m IN CHARGE OF MAKING THE PETS STAY ALIVE, plus i wouldn\u2019t want anything bad to happen to him because he\u2019s a very nice cat. <\/p>\n
i felt that something bad must have happened because he\u2019d be HUNGRY because he\u2019s so big and fat.<\/p>\n
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? <\/p>\n
i don\u2019t really know what would tempt Mr. Kitty in terms of treats, but he looks like a meat and cheese kind of fellow.<\/p>\n
Mr. Kitty is safe now. things are good.<\/p>\n
things are pretty darn good.<\/p>\n
at this little moment, anyway.<\/p>\n
but tomorrow morning, i\u2019m sure that Surly Grace will take over, because i won\u2019t have had enough sleep. so WATCH OUT. <\/p>\n
ok ok ok,<\/p>\n
tuesday (is it only TUESDAY???) night grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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