Wed. April 10, 2024: I Took Some Time to Rest
image courtesy of tookapic via pixabay.comWednesday, April 10, 2024
Waxing Moon
Mercury Retrograde
Cloudy, rainy, raw
Today’s ANGEL HUNT episode:
Episode 127: The Entrance to the Lair of the Fates
Lianna cannot avoid the Fates any longer.
Today’s DEADLY DRAMATICS episode:
Episode 95: Back into the Routine
The shows continue to run, replacing missing colleagues.
This DEADLY DRAMATICS episode concludes this short arc. You can binge the first three arcs now. There’s one more arc to go in the season!
It took a few hours, but I have most of what I need back on Happy 1 (the old computer). I think that will be the computer I haul around when I work offsite, and I’ll treat Happy 2 (the new computer) like a spoiled princess.
I wrote about four pages of THE WOMEN ON THE BRIDGE. The scene I’m working on will need a huge rewrite, and I may need to break it up into multiple scenes across the piece. But for now, get it down on paper and then worry about it.
Then, I started the next draft of FALL FOREVER. I rewrote the first 18 pages. Some of it was tweaking language to get more specific. A lot of the early first act has been reworked often enough so it’s reasonably strong. I started layering in more of Darrin’s sarcastic, pointed humor into his first scene, to show where he often makes Leah laugh in spite of herself, and to set more of a foundation of what drew them together. I added in a memory scene (not the requested “dream sequence”) where Alan and Lily interact directly, and I put it with an Alan/Selena scene, keeping Selena on stage for it. I need to rebuild the beats of that somewhat, to turn it from a sweet domestic scene into the argument that’s often referred to in the play, but it’s a start.
By then, I was cooked. I didn’t feel like doing anything. I didn’t work on LEGERDEMAIN, which will come back to bite me in the butt today. I handled some admin and correspondence. I turned around additional questions on a coverage I did late last week. I should have done two more coverages, but I’m still fine with deadlines, and I needed the rest. I started the thank yous to the company in Cooperstown. I worked on the slide deck for the artist cohort.
It was lovely out, so I sat on the porch and finished K IS FOR KILLER. While reading it, I sometimes see-sawed between liking it and not being sure, but by the end, I liked it, and I liked the dilemma set up, and am curious as to how it affects future books (because I don’t remember). I then began reading Jasper Fforde’s SHADES OF GREY for something completely different. I enjoyed his Thursday Next series a lot.
I need to accept the fact that I need more recovery time than I used to, even from good things, and build that in to my schedule. Years ago, I read a book on effective time management, and the author stated that when you travel, even on a short trip, you block off the day before you leave and the day after you return from any obligations. I sort of did that before I left, but since I returned fairly early on Monday, I hoped that would be enough.
I got my act together and made it to yoga. Gentle yoga was great, as always. And I did pretty well in the fitness class, too. I managed to do all the circuits in all the rounds – and with the extended times. I actually like the 40 seconds on/20 seconds off better than the 30 seconds on, because I have a chance to really learn that part of the circuit and how it’s supposed to feel in my body when I do it right. Sense memory.
Again, never let anyone tell you theatre skills have no use in real life!
I picked up takeout on the way home, so dinner at 8 PM was easy.
Read for a bit before bedtime. I’m re-reading Mary Catherine Bateson’s COMPOSING A LIFE (which has been one of my favorite books since it came out). It talks about how, since we have longer life spans, our lives are more like a symphony with different movements, and that we should embrace it. My copy is in storage, so I have a library copy.
Slept well.
The hotel’s corporate office sent me a survey yesterday about my stay. I gave them very high marks and commented on the quality of the breakfast, the kindness of the staff, and how happy the view of the mountains made me. I did mention that the makeup mirror light was rather Gothic, but not a big issue. The manager of the hotel in Cooperstown, who was so kind to me, sent me an email this morning thanking me and letting me know he would share my words with the staff. Hey, they should know they’re appreciated, right? I’m sure they mostly hear only the negative. And that room made me very happy.
Especially after the nightmare room I had on my research trip to Elmsford last summer!
This morning, I have errands to run (that would have usually been done on Monday). I need to work on LEGERDEMAIN, BRIDGE, and maybe sneak some work in on FALL FOREVER. I need to turn around 2-3 coverages today, and then I will go to tarot circle.
I also want to do some prep for tomorrow night’s artist cohort event. The Word X Word poetry event at the end of the month at the Berkshire Museum has been cancelled due to a venue issue, so I don’t have to worry about getting that poem written and polished in time.
I better get going.
Tomorrow, my mom has a doctor’s appointment Very Early in the morning. I’m not sure if I’ll schedule something to post or be up early enough to post before we head out. It means I miss meditation group, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.
Have a good one!
