Baby Steps- SOP

Tonight was the first real rehearsal for SOP. Last night was a read through but mostly some necessary house keeping . Also pictures. You know how I feel about pictures. I don't have high hopes for my shiny spot on the poster. But alas I digress.

Tonight started about as rough as last night started, only instead of getting into some light conflict with the artistic director, tonight I get a call at 7:45 from the AD wondering where I am. See I was suppose to be there at 7:30, which I thought yesterday when they didn't call my name for the Tuesday rehearsal and when I asked about it they joked I hadn't looked at my schedule. Good thing I didn't open that bottle of wine.

Hahahaha

So you know what's hard to do when you lock your car keys AND your phone AND your credit card in your car? Getting stuff on your to-do list done.

Thank GOD I had the good sense to be holding my apt keys or I'd be somewhere out in the rain right now super pissed.

Now excuse me, I have to go harass my boyfriend at work so he can call someone to help me.

*ahem*

Goals: 8 Month Review

So I did this as I usually do. And then I erased most of my comments on my own list and decided I needed to look at it from another perspective. I need to look at the list now as in not what I've done but what I need to do to get it done. B/c I'm almost 29. And I'd like to check some things off!

Just finish already!----------------------------------------------
6. Send 5 birthday cards- Friday Oct 23: Finish and send

15. write, shoot, edit 1 CCP review for YouTube. -Aug Hold
Friday: Find all notes and do a redraft. Make list of what need to find/photographs or otherwise. Shoot November 7th?

21. Call/write my Grandmother once a month.
Oct- Saw her in person. Should start November letter now.
Create list of topics to write about for the next few weeks.
November- San Fran stay: gather decent pics of the stay. Especially ones of Z and I, or just me.

Here we go again- Pearls

I start rehearsing a new show a week from Monday. It's Michele Lowe's String of Pearls. Six women play 20-some roles. I was asked to audition and wasn't thrilled about the script, but I love the director and really respect her work. (Really respect her work.) She offered me a part in the cast and it would have been stupid to turn her down. Now that I've spent more time with the script, I realize it would have been stupid in more ways than one.

With our travels and wedding prep, I've neglected doing the necessary work for these parts. But once the 26th hits, my life will revolve around this show. That's just how theater works. So like the many things that consume my thoughts, I will do a lot of musings here. Some will be about the characters (insights, what I'm trying, what works, what doesn't) and of course probably discussion on the other actresses. It is an all woman show. I like these. I like the atmosphere they create. Throw in one man and everything changes. In the past, I've had really good experiences. I hope I do so again.

Final Day- San Fran

Today we ventured out into Berkeley and I expected everything to look like Eugene only...hippier. It failed on that front. What it didn't fail on was having the UC Berkley campus and The Cheese Board. We ate dinner in what they call the Gourmet Ghetto. So yeah. More later (although not pictures b/c I, of course, didn't take any! Bad habits!)

The things that stuck out most to me about Berkeley were:
1. It felt like fall. At first I thought, "Why do I feel this here but not in San Fran?" Then I realized that leaves were changing colors in Berkeley and they're not in San Francisco. Strange, right?

2. Berkeley doesn't give a damn about pedestrians. Driving in San Fran kind of makes me want to pull over and cry, but that said, those same drivers do not hurry their pedestrians. Cars don't push into the cross walk if the little white man is up. They don't honk you to hurry. They let you walk when your sign says walk. Not so in Berkeley.

So that's the teeny tiny write up of that. There will be a full on synopsis when I get back. Tonight we are throwing the last bits and pieces into boxes, moving plants back across rooms and freaking the hell out of the two cats. Tomorrow we're aiming to be out of here by 8am. After a quick coffee stop, we are on the road. And then we will drive and drive and drive and drive. You can think of us at any time of the day...and we will be driving.

Best Thing All Week

We got the parking spot right outside our building. RIGHT OUTSIDE. This means that tomorrow at 7am when we are hauling and packing and repacking and shuffling we will be in zero threat of some angry tenant wanting to put their car in the driveway we are blocking. When I start to get anxious about anything relating to transition (as I tend to do) I just think about that parking spot we nabbed at 8:15 this morning and I just smile.

And then the rains came

Everyone in San Francisco is talking about the weather. Not b/c they are pretending to be in some polite company but b/c tomorrow it is suppose to rain. No, not just rain, pour. No, not just pour but torrential down pour with flash flooding. And while I've heard people on the bus bandying about 6 inches, other sources say more like 3". Three inches. Of rain. In one day.

Sounds like the type of weather to stay the hell in doors and edit. So perhaps tomorrow I will get some work done...and also finish our Save the Dates. (The non-envelope part b/c ladies and gentlemen, I am suuuuper close :)