Practice

I am falling out of practice in writing. 

Its really absurd how incapable i seem to be at balancing more than one creative impulse at a time. 

In that way i really miss college. You are bombarded and forced to perform on many different fronts and somehow all that stress and frustration and pressure worked to provide me a marvelous creative fervor. I could write academically and reflectively and poetically because i had to or burst. 

I wonder for myself how i'm letting out all that energy now. 

Certainly less productively. 

But i don't suppose one must always be productive. I don't actually believe that statement at all. I feel best when i am achieving something. Life seems simpler when you work to achieve one small thing after another. Perhaps it gives me less time to reflect on the larger picture. 

Some whimy for the weekend. 

  

From my pintrest. 

Some Wednesday Lovely from Pinterest

Love the Bonsai

Look at those awesome doors! 

Love that table and the wall pins. 

Check out the rest of my board over at Pintrest -->

Something nice for your Thursday

I recently signed up for a Pinterest account. And what a wonderful thing! I've been scouring other people's pages for delightfully inspiring images. Here are some! Pinterest is still in the Beta stages ( i think) and so there is an account waiting list. But its well worth the wait! 

  

Check out some of my other pins at my pinterest page

So my phone

So my phone has officially stopped taking a charge. Which means its dead. And i am somewhat out of touch up here in Oneonta NY. Where its BEAUTIFUL. We have truly driven up to meet the fall. It is crisp and gorgeous and the trees are flaming already in a way that Va isn't even thinking about. One of my cast mates has suggested we jerryrig some taps to get some maple syrup. I think that would be lovely.  Photos SOON!


On the front of being connected to the outside world, this just popped up on the SEE (Siti Extended Ensemble) website: http://siti.groupsite.com/post/october-2010-in-the-room
 Here's an excerpt:

The British director John Doyle spoke with my graduate students at Columbia and said that when he enters the rehearsal hall, the first thing he does is demand that everyone in the room immediately shut down their computers.  His stage management team is typically quite upset by this request because nowadays stage managers take down blocking on their computers and being online in rehearsal also means being in contact with the outside world. John Doyle assures the stage managers that whatever blocking they record would change anyway.  Instead, all he asks of them is to simply be present and pay attention. 

Over the past several years, computers have become a dominating presence in my own rehearsals. In a slow moment in rehearsal, the stage manager, who often is also simultaneously company manager, might be making necessary plane reservations for the actors for an upcoming tour.  The designers are able to be in the room with us for the entire rehearsal process only because they are concurrently electronically present at other rehearsals around the city, around the country, or even around the world.  If they were not able to surf, text, iChat or email, they would probably not be able to be in the room with us as much as they are.  

Bogart goes on to muse about the enjoyment of taking in information slowly. An enjoyment that maybe is impeded by the immediacy with which we are able to access information. 


I thought it was cool.