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The big doings on Wednesday was my first audition for a part in a play in five years. Since moving to Arkansas, I haven't been close enough to any performance houses to do so; the nearest threates beyond the ones at the University (for which only students are allowed to audition) are in Springdale and Rogers. No busses run there, and I can't really expect someone to cart my thespian ass all the way to towns northward every day for rehearsals after work.
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The big doings on Wednesday was my first audition for a part in a play in five years. Since moving to Arkansas, I haven't been close enough to any performance houses to do so; the nearest threates beyond the ones at the University (for which only students are allowed to audition) are in Springdale and Rogers. No busses run there, and I can't really expect someone to cart my thespian ass all the way to towns northward every day for rehearsals after work. <:)
I was trying for the part of Reverend Sykes in "To Kill A Mockingbird," not a very large part, but (like all) fairly important. Besides speaking in a very pronounced and pious Southern drawl, I would get to stand in a crowd and look all preachery. Mmmf, oh yes, I think it's safe to say that my affinity for men of the cloth is beginning to spike quite a bit. Not sexually, you perverts! Nothing funny...I just like faith.
Anyway, Virginia (who already has a part in the play) took me up to see the director and I read for the part with her. I nailed it; the director was impressed and I was offered the part on the spot! The only trouble? The final weekend of performances (two Friday; one Saturday) happens to fall on Oklacon.
If I were *just* going to Oklacon, I would have happily cancelled plans and joined the show. But I'm fairly obligated, since I'm doing a bunch of spirituality stuff while there. So today I'm going to have to e-mail the director and turn down the part. :/ No worries, though; there'll be an audition for another play in December, and you can bet I'll be there. It's really good to know that I can still do the whole theatre thing. So, a small victory for me. Hurrah!
The rest of the week has been pretty rough. We're having Bikes Blues and BBQ right on Dickson Street this weekend, and since Wednesday the streets have been roaring with the sound of Harleys. The people are actually pretty cool; bikers look tough and all mean, and they may even be pretty blustery, but if you're cool with them they're generally cool with you. Still, traffic has been nothing short of insane and beyond bikers coming in to look at the local attractions (and not buy much of anything) no one can get into the store. Getting a ride and catching the bus has been a bona-fide nightmare all week, too. Thankfully, I can sit out the rest of the weekend after today.
I've been sleeping horribly all week, which has severely dampened my ability to take discouraging shit; I think I've kept mysel in check with being moody and pissy, but I'm still going to apologize to folks just in case I might have been snippish with someone unfairly. It's really easy to excuse behavior in yourself that you would find unacceptable in others, and I've been working pretty hard to make sure I'm mindful of that.
My mother called today at 8 in the morning, after I get to bed at 5 am; I sent her two checks over the past ten days to help her out, and she says the bank is telling her she's overcharged quite a bit on her account...so one of them was completely swallowed by that. :( None of the bills are paid, people are still breathing down her neck, and she still has a sizable hole where her bank account should be. All of my savings and extra money right now is gone, so there's nothing I can do. It's just...despairing. Every time I talk to her the situation seems to get a little bit worse. At this point, I'm almost certain me moving in with her would just pull me down too, so I'm going to try and persuade her to move here or someplace cheaper. Even North Carolina would be a big improvement, and she might be more comfortable there.
Didn't manage to catch the debates last night (I was working) but I did read the analysis, a portion of the transcripts and talk to several folks about it, and I became hopeful about Kerry winning this thing yet. Both men clearly established their views and mindsets on the issues, even if they fudged facts and figures. <user site="livejournal.com" user="azureite"> critiqued their debate in a pretty interesting and enlightening fashion and I hope he'll put his findings up on his journal, and factcheck.org shall likewise be researched extensively when I finally get my hands on a video/audio stream of it. I tried NPR but they want to make me install RealOne before it would work. :P Any other places out there I can get the goods from?
I think I've pegged a fundamental difference between the candidates; Bush seems to have this 'one-size-fits-all' approach to foreign policy, where if he makes a policy it has to be good enough for every situation in every country. Dissention or failures can be summarily removed, manipulated or ignored to make sure the model remains intact. Kerry is much more aware of the nuances that flavor relations with every country, and I think it's for this reason alone that he'd make a better commander-in-chief and figurehead for the USA. Kerry's adaptable; Bush's "steadfastness" is more an unwillingness to consider the factors that make each situation, every 'success' or 'failure', consistently unique. Say what you will about the *current* situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, but even ignoring those that attitude could get us into serious trouble with Iran and North Korea, and eventually countries like China and Russia.
(Note: As a precautionary measure, I'm not answering any responses to that last little bit of political spewage. If you guys are going to spar and poke each other in the eyes over it, kindly take it elsewhere.)
Odis' game tonight; I could spazz a little about it, but I really should get back to work. Maybe sometime later this weekend when I'm all rested.
I was trying for the part of Reverend Sykes in "To Kill A Mockingbird," not a very large part, but (like all) fairly important. Besides speaking in a very pronounced and pious Southern drawl, I would get to stand in a crowd and look all preachery. Mmmf, oh yes, I think it's safe to say that my affinity for men of the cloth is beginning to spike quite a bit. Not sexually, you perverts! Nothing funny...I just like faith.
Anyway, Virginia (who already has a part in the play) took me up to see the director and I read for the part with her. I nailed it; the director was impressed and I was offered the part on the spot! The only trouble? The final weekend of performances (two Friday; one Saturday) happens to fall on Oklacon.
If I were *just* going to Oklacon, I would have happily cancelled plans and joined the show. But I'm fairly obligated, since I'm doing a bunch of spirituality stuff while there. So today I'm going to have to e-mail the director and turn down the part. :/ No worries, though; there'll be an audition for another play in December, and you can bet I'll be there. It's really good to know that I can still do the whole theatre thing. So, a small victory for me. Hurrah!
The rest of the week has been pretty rough. We're having Bikes Blues and BBQ right on Dickson Street this weekend, and since Wednesday the streets have been roaring with the sound of Harleys. The people are actually pretty cool; bikers look tough and all mean, and they may even be pretty blustery, but if you're cool with them they're generally cool with you. Still, traffic has been nothing short of insane and beyond bikers coming in to look at the local attractions (and not buy much of anything) no one can get into the store. Getting a ride and catching the bus has been a bona-fide nightmare all week, too. Thankfully, I can sit out the rest of the weekend after today.
I've been sleeping horribly all week, which has severely dampened my ability to take discouraging shit; I think I've kept mysel in check with being moody and pissy, but I'm still going to apologize to folks just in case I might have been snippish with someone unfairly. It's really easy to excuse behavior in yourself that you would find unacceptable in others, and I've been working pretty hard to make sure I'm mindful of that.
My mother called today at 8 in the morning, after I get to bed at 5 am; I sent her two checks over the past ten days to help her out, and she says the bank is telling her she's overcharged quite a bit on her account...so one of them was completely swallowed by that. :( None of the bills are paid, people are still breathing down her neck, and she still has a sizable hole where her bank account should be. All of my savings and extra money right now is gone, so there's nothing I can do. It's just...despairing. Every time I talk to her the situation seems to get a little bit worse. At this point, I'm almost certain me moving in with her would just pull me down too, so I'm going to try and persuade her to move here or someplace cheaper. Even North Carolina would be a big improvement, and she might be more comfortable there.
Didn't manage to catch the debates last night (I was working) but I did read the analysis, a portion of the transcripts and talk to several folks about it, and I became hopeful about Kerry winning this thing yet. Both men clearly established their views and mindsets on the issues, even if they fudged facts and figures. <user site="livejournal.com" user="azureite"> critiqued their debate in a pretty interesting and enlightening fashion and I hope he'll put his findings up on his journal, and factcheck.org shall likewise be researched extensively when I finally get my hands on a video/audio stream of it. I tried NPR but they want to make me install RealOne before it would work. :P Any other places out there I can get the goods from?
I think I've pegged a fundamental difference between the candidates; Bush seems to have this 'one-size-fits-all' approach to foreign policy, where if he makes a policy it has to be good enough for every situation in every country. Dissention or failures can be summarily removed, manipulated or ignored to make sure the model remains intact. Kerry is much more aware of the nuances that flavor relations with every country, and I think it's for this reason alone that he'd make a better commander-in-chief and figurehead for the USA. Kerry's adaptable; Bush's "steadfastness" is more an unwillingness to consider the factors that make each situation, every 'success' or 'failure', consistently unique. Say what you will about the *current* situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, but even ignoring those that attitude could get us into serious trouble with Iran and North Korea, and eventually countries like China and Russia.
(Note: As a precautionary measure, I'm not answering any responses to that last little bit of political spewage. If you guys are going to spar and poke each other in the eyes over it, kindly take it elsewhere.)
Odis' game tonight; I could spazz a little about it, but I really should get back to work. Maybe sometime later this weekend when I'm all rested.
