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Ten Things 1. I have a horrible cold. Greg gave it to me. It's an unwanted gift. The good part seems to be that the medicine I'm taking has stripped me of my appetite completely. Tavist-D, the new diet drug! The bad part is that I have lost all sense of taste. Or maybe that's part of the good part, because if I had an appetite, I couldn't taste my food anyway. My throat is sore and my nose is runny and my sinuses feel like they are packed full of tissue. 2. Summer theatre is better. It's not great, but it's better. I love my two assistants and my unpaid intern to death; they are all super people and very talented and a big help. We open next Wednesday, incidentally - we are nowhere near ready and I am scared. It's hard to put a one hour and fifteen minute musical featuring 82 kids together in three weeks of six hour days in which one hour is lunch and one is class. Really hard. Things are looking up, though. The first show opens tomorrow, and our show has a "preview" before it - sort of like a commercial, I guess. We rehearsed it today during the dress rehearsal and my kids were pretty darn cute. 3. I took my first GRE practice test today, and boy, did I suck ass. I have some major studying to do. I need to bring that score up by about, oh, 200 points! I credit part of the suckage to my headcold, because about two sentences into each reading comprehension question I would drift off, and let's not even talk about the stupid logic problems. I have a lot of work to do, and I've barely started to study. 4. The house is still a mess from the party. Today I found our pizza stone in the upstairs office closet. 5. I am amusing myself by posting to a message board about the Pledge of Allegiance ruling. This message board seems to be frequented most by right-wing Christians who never studied the history of the country in school, can't spell, and believe that all of the school shootings, drug use, and teen pregnancy is solely caused by taking prayer out of public schools. These are people who think Jamestown was settled because the Virginia Company wanted freedom from religious persecution. People who think the Pilgrims were the first people here. People who think the Founding Fathers chanted "In God We Trust!" at the Continental Congress, when a motion to open that Congress with a prayer was voted down. People who say things like Okay, so "under God" was added in the 1950's. Why go back to the old ways? Do you want to go back to slavery? because, you know, the issues are on the same level. Oh, it's fun. 6. Our home phone has rung exactly once since the party - seventeen days ago - and it was our gym, for crying out loud. We don't know where all of our friends are, and frankly, after spending the last several months once again playing Julie the Cruise Director I have decided I am tired of it. So I'm taking a lot of naps. We are actually going out Thursday night, though, to dinner at one of Greg's colleagues'. I'm really looking forward to that. When you spend your day with 82 children, you long for the company of grownups. 7. In two weeks we're going to Ohio for Greg's family reunion. Naturally, we have received invitations to two parties, two plays, and a dinner, all for that weekend. I predict the next round of invites will be for sometime between August 13 and 24, when we'll be on our honeymoon. Sigh. 8. I can't believe I still haven't written about my Sondheim weekend in DC with Elizabeth and Greg. Or the wedding, for that matter. Athena and I were talking on the phone (on the cell!) - was it last week? - and she was telling me that she never really wrote about her wedding at all. It's like...there's this big buildup, and you write about the plans and everything, and then when it's over it's almost impossible to process. Greg suggested taking pictures and building entries around specific moments, and I'm going to try that. 9. I love author Marian Keyes. TryWatermelon or Last Chance Saloon, which I just finished last night. Fun reads without being disgustingly fluffy. And if you haven't read Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner yet, you are missing one of my favorite books of this year (at least the paperback ed. is this year). It really elevates the quality of "chick lit" and makes you see how much crap there is out there. Weiner's book is really wonderful, especially if you've ever had body image issues (and who hasn't?). Bonus if you're from the Philly area: Weiner used to write for the Inquirer, and her heroine lives in Philly. The book is peppered with Philly locations and restaurants. I loved that about it. 10. I (heart) Vanilla Coke. |