Juno, but more importantly emotevomit.
I’ve been putting off blogging until I built up enough steam to blog about Juno. Everyone has been raving about the movie and yes, I liked it to.
I’ve been in this awful work related rut recently. Usually my stage management blogging efforts are published on The Standby. But I don’t know. This is too much of a personal rant than anything else. I’ve just been getting extremely annoyed lately with people I work with. I can’t stand when someone tells me how to do my job when they do not have a tenth of a clue as to what my job really is, but I guess that’s something I need to get used to. I don’t mind it when it’s a technical person and I particularly don’t mind it when it’s another stage manager. But when it’s an inexperienced director, no matter of the directors age or “theatrical experience,” man, there is no faster way to increase my pulse. The pay for my current show is really good. Not really good. But good for this city. It’s actually the most I’ve ever been paid for an actual play. I just realized that.
I haven’t slept well for the past week. As a result I’ve been drinking often, cause drinking then getting tired means that I’ll pass out the second my head hits the pillow.
2008 has been good so far, don’t get me wrong. And classes haven’t even started yet. I’m just not happy. Blahhh. Maybe a good jog will snap me out of it.
Heres the deal…
Because I’m not required to do anything while visiting my hometown, I’ve done a whole lot of nothing. In fact, I have not left this house since I stepped into it Monday(?) evening. The things I have done have included the following: slept, spent more hours a day on this laptop than I would ever like to admit, showered, laundered, consumed food (vegetables!), and made cookies (then ate them all).
I’ve also been doing a lot of thinking about the next few months. I have to really buckle down at school this semester because I don’t want to put off moving to New York any longer than I have to. With that, I also want to do stuff this semester. There is a lot of Richmond I haven’t experienced yet and need to before I leave.
So I’ve decided I have to stage manage the hell out of my own life this semester. 2008 is going to have a schedule and I’m going to stick to it. It is going to have a master to do list that is going to rock. I’ve decided in order to keep myself on the master to do list schedule, I’m going to have a category called master to do. I will occasionally post my master to dos on this here blog (aw golly gee my readers must fancy this idea!).
I’ve also decided that I need to get on the ball with my finances. I am never good with balancing my check book, so I’ve decided that I’m just going to make a fucking excel document (hellz to the yeahizzle)! I’m really good at keeping receipts and throwing them on the table beside my bed and never looking at them again, so the way I figure it I’ll have a hard copy and a soft copy. I’ll keep my hard copy bedside with my receipts and when I’m bored I’ll actually fill it out. Then every month when I get my bank statement I’ll compare, and insert the information into my soft copy, where I will also keep tabs of my paychecks.
I’m incredibly overwhelmed by the potential of awesome my life has right now. I mean, I’m moving to New York. I’m moving to New York with Hope, who is hands down the most level headed and genuine friend I’ve had in years. I’m moving to New York to do what I love, stage manage. I’m moving to New York a year sooner than expected…if all goes accordingly. WHICH IT WILL.
So it all starts here at my blog.
- Pay secret credit card bill
- Excel Finances.Doc
- Go through belongings that are still in my parents house. Take what I want, throw the rest out or consider putting it on ebay.
- Put pictures on my computer
- Get Ray his Christmas present
- Cut my hair, or get it cut
- Make my parents buy me a new pair of pants
- Make a list of people I need to send snail mail to
- Uncle Raymond
- Aunt Mary
- Clay McAwesome Chapman
- Put together my own Address/Email/Phone Number Book
The street heats the urgency of now
As you can see there’s no one around
this is MY blog.
Well, I guess I’ll introduce myself.
I‘m Shelley. I’m old enough. I was born in Virginia. I live in Richmond currently, but I have plans to move to New York in August (hopefully somewhere in Brooklyn). I’m a stage manager. I like office supplies (naturally). I like to ride my bicycle with my friends, and I like to go fast. Unfortunately, you can’t go fast on a Cruiser. I like to watch television, but only with other people. I like theatre (especially indie, off-Broadway, non-spectacle theatre). I like Williamsburg, Va in the fall and spring but not at any other time of the year. I like winter, and thats new for me. I like music, but mostly my taste in music is whatever was introduced to me by my friends. I’m attracted to talent, passion, men with well kept facial hair, liberals, and guys who read the news. I like people that like to make things, change things, and support things.
This is, I think my 7th blog. I had two personal ones in high school, a blog ring that I wrote for along with several other people across the US (it was started by a friend of mine) that was news specific (I always wrote about weird news), a personal one I had my first year of college, a blog describing a tour that I went on… that I failed to maintain, I started a few other topic specific blogs but became bored with them. And the one I’m most proud of…The Standby, where my best friend Hope and I write about stage management.
Anyway, I hope I stick with this blog and I presume it will outlive the blogs of my past.
I‘m not sure what I’ll talk about here, but more likely than not, I’ll talk about myself a lot.
To be even more specific, the next few blogs will undoubtedly be about the following topics: Why 2007 sucked. Why 2007 rocked. Christmas time.
You’ve made a lasting impression
And if it doesn’t feel right
Then I just can’t go wrong
[The Starting Line-Lasting Impression]
