Friday night! Managed to be almost stereotypical, believe it or not. Today was fairly relaxed--got up at 9, went straight back to bed until 12.30, ran to my 1 o'clock lecture, met the Mermaids treasurer for show-talk (starting my own production company with a bank account and everything! snazzy!), went home, read Plato's Socrates's Apology for the afternoon (interspersed with eating, chatting, listening to Reggaeton, and getting groceries), went and auditioned for Titus Andronicus (I've got a callback for Macbeth but didn't get in to one of the a capella groups--sorted), watched a play of Alice in Wonderland with some people (psychadelic 60s inspired...started great, then got bogged down, literal, tedious and incoherent), got a book from the library on population control, got beans at Tescos, ran into Jim and Robbie and went out. And that is my complete day.
The weekend: Tomorrow, 2-5 fight scene choreography for 3 of my infinite Lion/Witch/Wardrobe fights, 5-5.30 training as one of the Regs ambassadors for my bit of part time employment, possibly going into the gym (with Jim!) after that, then 8PM rehearsal/getting together at my house for 1984, Regs anexxe party (possibly). Sunday 2-5 Lion/Witch/etc rehearsal, Macbeth callbacks. Ahhh might just keep this blog as a schedule planner!
I'm really enjoying the pace right now, we'll see when deadlines start coming up...but I think it'll be alright. Feels a bit more like my high school years, never a spare moment--but talking to loads of people, making new acquaintances and solidifying old ones. Reminded, going out with Robbie again, of how well we get on. Deciding to dedicate an hour or two a day for reading, no matter what--but we'll see how well I'm able to stick to that.
PS: Airlines--fantastic. Or is that just their employees?
PPS: The dollar, despite bedlam and the apocalypse, is at 1.83:1 with the pound! Not bad!
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Upcoming: Romeo & Juliet, Forum Theatre, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
A Californian, a Scot, and a Shanghainese walk into a bar...
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Soft Night
silent graffiti
sprawling words stretched out on cream pink walls
spattered from on high by the seagulls
that freewheeled and caw-cawed through aharsh pink sky
still graffiti
a motionless oasis
in violence, silent. calm,
but eagerly longing for discovery:
notice me!
here! I am out of place
no whitewashed walls
a monument TO MAN’S INGENUITY
no pyramids of the metropolis
only the loving work of boys
somewhere between testament and confession
they who posses nothing
but are the property of adults
spray themselves out on other adult property
this is mine! until the paint
is covered by another layer
dogs piss at a fire hydrant
silent graffiti
crackling ground under Nikes
and from
far off
the whirr of sirens.
3 comments:
On NPR tonight Mom and I (separately) heard a story about a new production of Chekhov's Seagull opening on Broadway. Sounded interested and we both had thought that it would be fun to meet you and Choelseung in NYC over a long weekend to see it. Alas, even at 1.83:1 & a boondoggle it's a little out of range. Have fun with theater in St A.
I also listened to a piece the other morning about multi-tasking by a research group. Their conclusion? People can't multi-task. They can switch between tasks fairly quickly, but there's no such thing in the human brain equivalent to multitasking. For some reason, it made me think of you.!
You sound busy but good. I do love how you throw yourself into life, my boy.
Ditto on the year abroad comments. I thought you were abroad.
Regarding "multi-tasking" - I think that here is no such thing as multitasking. There is just focus or "doing-many-things-poorly-at- once". "Multitasking" is a term that business managers came up with in the late nineties to try to squeeze the last drop of labor out of salaried people. If you watch people who are "multitasking", they actually seem pretty anxious and hysterical. People who are working quickly but calmly are actually focusing on one thing at a time and then shifting their focus to the next thing. Whether they are doing it fast or slow is a subjective judgement. The outcome or product usually will determine whether or not the speed and focus are/were optimum. Do you really want your doctor to be "multi-tasking" while talking to you.
Sorry to nitpick but I always love torpedoing this concept.
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