The rest of the week...

[unforth]

Well, Jonie's doing a lot better, to start things off in this post. She hasn't had any more accidents in the house - thank god, the stains, they won't come out! - and she's been taking her medicine like a good puppy, though right now she's looking at me adorably because I haven't taken her out for the morning yet (she's fine, I took her out at like 2 AM, but still...). Here's too a speedy recovery the rest of the way so that my pup will be back to normal!

I've added a few fun things to my weekly schedule, spiffy things that also don't take terribly long - specifically, I'll be doing horseback riding lessons (along with miraeko every Friday afternoon, and Irish Step Dance every Monday afternoon. I'm fairly excited about both of these, especially since neither is terribly expensive, which makes me oh-so-happy. :)

I can't actually remember what I've said about my current thoughts on the future in my LJ. (goes and checks quickly) Okay, that's about what I thought (See this entry for my previous thoughts on this topic).
Anyway, I'm working at the ALF in the general collections preservation lab 10 hours a week now. I think I impressed Karissa (my immediate superior) with how quickly I pick up treatments and my level of hand skills - after saying on the first day that generally they let people sew pamphlets for the first couple of weeks, she taught me another treatment on my second day! This makes me happy - I really don't mind sewing pamphlets, but I want to ultimately be able to produce a wide and varied portfolio to take along with me to interviews for schools, either as actual items or in photographs...I need to hinge a cover and sew in a couple of pamphlets to go with my existing portfolio of two hands bound books, two phase boxes, to clam shell boxes, a plexi-glass mount and a thick mylar mount, as well my other types of handicrafts (I intend to include examples of the costumes I've sewn with my portfolio, because the key is to show aptitude at hand crafts...)...anyway, the point of all of this was to say that one of the other employees is also interested in the same things I am, and she'd done more research into schools and programs than me, and was able to point me towards some other possibilities...so now, in addition to the program in Austen, I know about programs in Boston (which sounds AWESOME, it's basically a bookbinding apprenticeship and they only accept 6 students each year...), Oregon, Alabama, Iowa, Philidelphia (which I can't spell!), California, Chicago, and - awesomest of all - England! So I'm rather excited right now, I have multiple places where I can apply - I imagine when I look into it more seriously, some of those places won't make the cut (and I have a hard time convincing myself that no matter what the relative merits are, Alabama is still Alabama...) but it's encouraging to have more options. I also found a number of places that offer workshops so if, for example, I don't make it into any of those schools the first time I try (for example, apparently applying repeatedly is pretty much expected of the Boston program) I can go to, for example, New York, where the Center for Book Arts offers all manner of different courses. San Francisco has similar. :)
Can you tell I'm excited? :)

Last nights interlude was fairly spiffy. I had fun exploring my new-found understanding of the Demoncat (I know he's not all bad, dammit, I saw him cute and helpless and just as confused as the rest of us...), interacting with the new folk, catching up with Amelie (I hadn't remembered that she hadn't been around since before Beltaine, she was soooo surprised...), talking about the defense of the city, discussing craft, but my main enjoyment was thanks to fallenrose, due to the following scene...(which is only slightly paraphrased)...
Auditor Specific (drydem): Are you sure you don't need a sex bot? They're very useful...
Kathryn: Oh no, I really...I mean, I don't need a sex bot, I have-
Miki: Troy?
Kathryn: Oh NO!! Um! (runs away)
...hehehe, that totally messed my head up. It was wonderful. (what a strange combination of sentences! :) )
Anyway, thanks to everyone, it was a great interlude, it was so nice to see so many people IC!

schenker28 and I sat down and messed with our schedules until we were able to come up with a preliminary list of what we'd like to see and when over the following semester. Some of these dates are flexible; some of them really aren't at all. Please get in touch with me - either by comment, e-mail, phone call, or what not - if you are interested in coming along to any of these. Let me know if these times don't work out for you, too, some might be changeable. (for more information on shows this semester, see this entry in my LJ)

Oliver Crumb and the Key to Atlantis (written in part of saracariad!: TODAY at 3 PM.

The Woman in Black: Saturday, September 23rd.

Don Giovanni: Friday, September 29th.

The Birthday Party: Saturday, October 7th. Note I'll be attending this with my mother, who will be visiting that weekend.

Manon: Saturday, October 21st.

Urinetown: Friday, October 27th.

The Drummers of Burundi: Thursday, November 2nd.

The Crucible: Satuday, November 11th.

I Can't Stop Loving You (A musical based on the music of Ray Charles): Thursday, November 30th.

Nutcracker Ballet: Friday, December 1st.

The Chimes of Christmas: Wednesday, December 6th.

The primary reason to see what people are interested in is to coordinate ticket buying so that folk can sit together - which is to say, if you really don't think you'll know until that morning and don't care if we don't sit as a group, then don't worry about it. :) This is the stuff that I intend to go to, though. There'll be more in the spring, but it wasn't really possible to figure out spring time schedules until we knew when our classes would be; expect a list for spring in December or so. ;)

Well, that's all for me for today I think...off to the rest of my day! :)

Comments

[drydem.livejournal.com]

you might want to toss in a seeing of Hadrian VII, which is the last 2 weekends of October. Mostly because I'm playing the lead.

[unforth.livejournal.com]

I haven't gone through the community theater stuff yet, though I do intend to. :) What are the dates on Hadrian?

[drydem.livejournal.com]

the MCCT events calendar

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Spiffy, thanks!

[closetgnome.livejournal.com]

Glad to see that Jonie is doing better! And that the preservation track you're on is panning out so well for you. Hurrah!

As for the horseback riding lessons, where are you taking them at and how much are they? (Sorry if those are too nosy questions...) I'm very interested...I used to ride quite a bit when I was younger but haven't for years. I work Friday afternoons, but I wonder if they might have other times open...

A lot of your events sound fun! Let me think and coordinate scheduling and finances...

[unforth.livejournal.com]

You can get more info at Stone Creek Ranch (http://www.stonecreekranchindiana.com/). It's definitely not too nosy! The lessons are individual, and are $20 per half hour. The fellow is named Wayne, and he seemed a little condescending (most horse-people act condescending with people who they don't think are horse people, though) but otherwise very nice, and the animals were VERY well cared for and well trained - the horse we worked with was a little obstinant, like most horses, but also very cooperative, I was impressed. At the moment, he's letting miraeko and I take lessons together - we could probably add a third - they do arrange group lessons if it's what the folk involved want - though it might start to cost more (we got out at half price when it was just the two of us, each of use covering $20 for the hour that we were there.)
They give lessons every week day from 1 - 5, and most of the day Saturday...I have a few other times when I could go, though Friday's are best for me...

As for my other event, the Irish step is at the Windfall dancers, it's 5:30 to 7 on Monday's, and it's $260 for 13 lessons (though this Monday, the first, is only $5 and no obligation so that folk can try it out. For more info, you can check out their webpage. (http://www.windfalldancers.org/)

If you're interested (on either score!) let me know, company is awesome. ;)

[moonartemis76.livejournal.com]

Ryan an dI will be going to The CRucible on NOvember 11th but we can't buy tix unti he gets his financial aid check. :(

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Spiffy! We can definitely wait a little bit to pick up the tickets; if you want I can pick them up and you can pay me back, or some such...