You know when you get a new toy and you don't know how to do anything with it and you're a little afraid to push all the buttons, but one day you get fed up and you push the button and all your problems are solved?
I just figured out how to turn off the touchpad on my laptop and I'm SO THRILLED. I've been having issues accidentally deleting what I'd written, navigating away from long emails and losing everything I'd done so far, etc. Not fun. NO MORE!
So anyway, today was fun, just a whole odd mix of things. I had an audition for the new show Easy Money in the morning, then spent the ENTIRE afternoon at the mechanic's fixing things on my car. So Friday I find out that my taillight's burnt out, Saturday my check engine light comes on, and since my car hasn't had AC all summer and is due for an inspection next month (which it can't pass with the engine light on), I figured I should take it in. So I did. And they fixed everything, charged me a not-insignificant amount of money, fed me homemade Armenian food, introduced me to some of the canaries (there's 15 in there right now) and generally showed me a pretty darn good time for a day at the mechanic's.
The evening was spent doing support stuff for tutoring (when they say a lesson report takes 15 minutes, they're USUALLY being optimistic), cooking, and goofing off online.
More about the audition - the role was for a spoiled, self-entitled rich girl who's kind of snotty, so that was fun. Required a lot of makeup and hair and some fake nails (partly suggested by the script, partly for my own process) and some prep (yes, I still wasn't word-perfect in the audition darn it - nerves!) but it went well - I had fun, I have no idea if it was too big or too fast or whatever, but I did it and we'll just see.
I need more of those auditions!
I was really excited to get into this office - I'd recently met the assistant in a workshop and I have no idea whether that played any factor in getting me the audition, but I think my manager worked hard to get me in there too so hey, it all came together! Really pleasant office too - it's in a small house and it really made me realize how much I'd like to have my own little craftsman someday soon - just such a neat feel to the space. And SUPER-nice CD!
Oh! Other things going on lately - my music improv class/group Improperetta is getting REALLY good! Sure we've got a lot to learn still, but people have given us some serious compliments lately, and they've probably been deserved.
People have enjoyed it more than seriously mega-professional theater productions in town as well as saying they'd happily pay a decent chunk of money to see us - which is nice to hear when you're FREE.
Check out our MySpace page at
www.myspace.com/improperetta for show dates!
