Down time November 17, 2004 ~ 1:41 pm
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Imagine mosaic, Strawberry Fields, Central Park, NYC
Don’t know if I’ve shown you guys this picture before or not. For a while over the summer, there was a man who would decorate the Imagine mosaic with fresh flowers every day. Always on the peace theme, but different flowers and colors every day. Rick used to get pissed at him because he put out a cap for donations for decorating a public place. It was pretty, tho.
So Lori and I did hella shopping extravaganza last night. Old Navy had sales on some of the work pants I wanted, and I wound up getting two pairs of work pants, a pair of jeans, and a shirt for $98. Lori got a pair of pants and a shirt for something like $40. Then we moved on to Gap, and while there were no good sales in the adult section, we got some spiffy gloves in Gap Kids. They’re fingerless gloves with a mitten fold-over. Sometimes it’s good to be short - we can fit into kids’ shoes and gloves! After that went over to that fine Hell’s Kitchen dive bar, The Bull Moose for beer and perhaps the best chicken parm sandwich on the planet, and a lot of BSing. Afterwards I went to Toys R Us and got two Gameboy games and then to Virgin Mega to pick up the new Elton John cd. I didn’t need those last three items, but they make me happy anyway. I haven’t gone shopping like that in a long time, and it was great to hang out with Lori again. Our schedules are so whacked that we haven’t gotten to do that a lot lately, and it was a nice relaxing evening.
This morning, a trip to the eye doctor for my regular exam, and he said all of the roughness that had been on the surface of my eye is gone. I don’t have to go back until next year, only have to use the prescription eye ointment occasionally, and continue using Visine tears. This is a vast improvement from having doctor’s appointments every two months like I did for most of the past year.
Back to work…have to catch up with the stuff I missed while at the doctor’s this morning.
Busy, busy, busy November 16, 2004 ~ 1:57 pm
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“Space within these lines not dedicated.” And neither is my foot.
Can anyone explain to me why the people in my office just don’t learn? If I’ve explained things once, I’ve explained them fifty times, yet they always ask the same exact stupid question when they’re looking over the degree audits. The answer hasn’t changed, quit asking me dumb-ass questions and disrupting my important work. And yes, my work is important. I’m doing all the degree audits that they end up checking, and the more I get interrupted, the more chance of mistakes that they won’t catch later because I work with retards. Sorry, had to get that out of my system. They’re not actually retarded, they’re just not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.
And now I must take a break and blog.
Larry finally just called and gave me a shitload of corrections on the insert that I wrote. Minor revisions, but things that he wanted added that I now have to rephrase and make fun to read. Those were his exact words. “Fun to read. Not academic.” Aye, aye. That will be how I spend my lunch hour. No nice lunchtime snooze in the sun for Julie today. This way, I get the whole shebang done by four this afternoon and can email it to the person who’s putting together the program, and I’m off the hook and can go to Old Navy and get work pants that don’t catch on my bellybutton, possibly the most uncomfortable phenomenon ever. All my pants must be low-rise, dammit.
End of rants.
Evil Julie November 16, 2004 ~ 11:48 am
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Super Julie November 16, 2004 ~ 9:56 am
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I’m a superhero. And if that doesn’t make you laugh, nothing will.
Blue sky day November 15, 2004 ~ 2:39 pm
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A glimpse of September sky through some trees. And my knee. And yes, I meant to do that. It made me laugh.
Today you get my funny picture because after all the shit that’s been flying around here lately, we need to laugh again. And because I just came back in from taking a nap in the sun in the place that I captured on digital here. It’s almost 60 degrees out today, and sunny with a gorgeous blue sky. And as I often say at this time of year, if I can have a few semi-warm days with a blue sky like this through the winter, it won’t be so bad. Blue sky days make it much easier to get through the rest of the blah weather.
Had a pretty kickass weekend. I got to go to rehearsal for Hemingway, which was wonderful. Larry has written a great play, and he’s a kick to work with. His son, Ben, is directing, my friend Mickey is stage managing (we both worked with Larry on Teddy Tonight!), and we have a great ASM, Lanita. It’s a very informal rehearsal process, but great because we’ve all got a say in what’s going on in the room. Sometimes a laid-back atmosphere is just what you need to get a lot of work done. Yesterday, for instance, Larry read through the script to make sure we had all the changes he’d done so far, and then we talked it out, page by page, to make sure it all worked. I love doing table work like this - I get to speak up about the structure of the play and show why there should be a dramaturg in the rehearsal room. A couple of times Larry even said that he hadn’t thought about a point I raised before, which is music to my ears. Now if he just goes over the preliminary program insert I mocked up and lets me know what he thinks, we’ll be in business.
Other than that…I got to spend a fair amount of time with Rick this weekend, and that lovely man made me breakfast yesterday. Not in bed, since I was already up and working on my program insert, but breakfast nonetheless. And he lent an ear to some of the crap I was putting in the program insert. In my imagination, I always wanted to be with a significant other that I could talk with about my job. Doesn’t sound like much, but when you consider how many people don’t know what a dramaturg is, let alone understand why they are helpful to have in rehearsals, it’s actually asking for a lot. Good thing I’m dating an actor! And that is the only time you will ever hear me say that.
Tonight it looks like I’m going to see Lori in a staged reading directed by our friend Taylor. Don’t know how good it will be, but I’m there for you, La! And if it’s no good, I’m kicking yer ass.
All right. November 12, 2004 ~ 11:39 am
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , comments closedOpen letter to my family members who keep checking my blog:
I am tired of this shit. You don’t talk to me, I don’t talk to you. That’s the deal. Doesn’t matter when we all quit speaking, doesn’t matter how old any of us were. We’re all adults now and this is the way it is. That being said, I don’t understand why some of you feel the need to check my blog every freaking day. We don’t talk. That means in real life, on the internet, whatever. All ties severed. I haven’t sought any of you out, and just because I’m semi-visible on the net doesn’t give you the right to be checking up on my life. I respect your privacy, please respect mine. That’s all I’m asking for. Common courtesy.
From my disclaimer, over in the sidebar: “Ex-friends, lovers and estranged family members who have been cut out of the writer’s life should refrain from reading their journal. If the relationship has ended, there is no reason you should get daily updates on the person’s life.”
The relationship has ended, people. Don’t email, don’t comment, don’t read the blog. Just move on.
For the rest of you, my friends and family members who are always invited to stop by…sorry for the interruption. New and entertaining posts soon.
Mini November 11, 2004 ~ 3:55 pm
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , comments closedI just had a student call and ask if we offered Microbiology during intersession. I’m an assistant registrar, I get calls like that. I put her on hold and thought: “Shit! Where did I put that damn schedule for intersession?” I put it in a pile on all the other schedules, of course. Which sounds brainy until I say that I didn’t do it on purpose, it ended up there last Friday when I cleaned my desk. But I was glad I remembered where I put it. I told the student “No,” and then put it back where I found it. Instead of filing it someplace. Hope I remember which pile it’s in next time I need it.
And I’m loopy from the cold and the cold medicine. It’s been a fun day. Wheeeeee!
And…(insert Homer Simpson imitation) “I’m a Slimy Mol-lusc! I’m a Slimy Mol-lusc!” My rating went up in the Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem (check out the sidebar). I’m not sure exactly how that happens, but I get excited when it does. Especially when I’m strung out on cold meds.
You have got to be kidding me November 11, 2004 ~ 11:07 am
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Mmmm…licheny goodness. Or something like lichen. Maybe it’s a moss. Who knows?
So I called my doctor’s office at 9 am today, to get the results from my ultrasound/sonogram/whatever it was. I was told to call back at 11 when his assistants got in.
I called back at 11. I was told that my doctor is out until Tuesday, and he’ll call me then. What??? Are you freaking kidding me? I told the receptionist I thought that sucked (I didn’t use that word, though), and she said “Well, if there was anything problematic on the ultrasound they would have contacted him…” Uh huh. Well, that kinda, sorta, not really makes me feel better. Pleh. I’m sure there’s nothing, and the occasional pains I now get at about ovary level are the result of my mind working overtime. Psychosomatic, I think it’s called. But still, I feel mistreated. Damn medical system.
And I still have a cold. It’s worse today. Rick, if you’re reading this at Randy’s house, I’m sorry if you witnessed me sleeping with Kleenex stuffed up my nostrils last night. That was prettier than the alternative, believe it or not. Isn’t it great that I feel so comfortable around you? Oh, and Happy Veterans’ Day, honey. Thank you for protecting my country. Even if it was in peacetime in South Korea, when I was three years old. You’re the best!
I hab a code November 10, 2004 ~ 4:18 pm
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Lake Welch, NY
I have a cold. I’m not totally unintelligible at this point, but the stuffy nose is getting to be a pain. I try not to take cold meds at work because they generally all make me sleepy, but you can bet I will be hooking up with the Sudafed when I get home. Rick wants me to come to his place this evening, and I probably will. I’m not feeling completely miserable at this point. I just have to make a pit stop at the Duane Reade (remember Duane Reade, Steph) to pick up a box of Kleenex because Rick doesn’t have a single box of Kleenex in his apartment. Seriously, we have to use toilet paper, which is one-ply at his place because he’s a man and doesn’t understand that we spend money on certain things like TP. And my already sore nose doesn’t want to deal with one-ply TP. So there will be a box of Kleenex in that apartment, by Goddess.
In other news, Larry has not yet called me back to arrange a meeting on this program insert he wants, so I guess I’m writing it blind, showing it to him on Saturday, and that will be that. Can’t do this shit over the phone, Lar. I need some face time for this, unfortunately.
And Rick and I both learned a new phrase last night. It was the same phrase, but we learned it in different settings. He learned it at a playwright’s group, I learned it from Sex and the City. It’s “See You Next Tuesday,” which if you shorten it down turns into C-U-N-…well, you get the picture. We’re the last ones on the planet to learn this, aren’t we?
Finally, trying to decide if it’s worth it to go back to Netflix. They’ve dropped their rates, but I’m not home a lot, and when I am I generally have TV on as a background noise while I blog, or surf the net, or read, or whatever. Do they have enough good movies to make me want to watch? Dunno.
Okay, going home.
Ashcroft resigns November 10, 2004 ~ 9:28 am
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , comments closedHe says “The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved. The rule of law has been strengthened and upheld in the courts.” Well, that’s news to me. I’m safe? Then why was the whole Bush campaign based on me not being safe? Oh, maybe it’s because we re-elected Bush that we’re safe. That must be it. As for the courts…well, I guess the law will be upheld as those pesky Liberals die off and are replaced by Conservatives. Yeah.
I do believe Ashcroft is “exhausted,” however. It must be tiring being so evil and such a dick to everyone all the time.
