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Name: Jess
Country: United States
State: New York
Metro: Schenectady
Birthday: 9/22/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: Procrastination, checking my email obsessive-compulsively, being overly analytical.
Expertise: Brooding, spending bizarre amounts of time in the theatre, finding song cues in everyday life.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Entertainment
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Member Since:
10/2/2003
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| Seriously, it's been ages. Anyway, I figure this is at least as much for me to keep a record of stuff as to keep in touch with folks, so.
The cat at this point really, really functions as my child. I'm one of those people. Well, that's what you get when your species is used to mating at like 18 and your societal whatever means that you can't really have kids till your late 20s. Maternal instinct on a grad student budget.
We have been going to Playwright's Horizons, because of their amazing student subscription deal, and we saw Doris to Darlene there this weekend. It was really good and had some really interesting sort of dramatic structures--it was sort of written like prose, with characters narrating for themselves like,
DORIS: Doris wondered blah blah blah.
KING LUDWIG: King Ludwig thought blah blah blah.
But it worked, it wasn't annoying. And the performances were really good.
Of course, Farnsworth opened this week. The reviews are what they are, but I will just say this: the celebrities I recognized were Messrs. Spielberg and Sorkin (duh), Bob Saget (he totally does look like Andy), that guy from Mad About You and Spin City, and GARRISON KEILLOR. Yes, I recognized a radio celebrity. But I didn't think it was really him until I read about it, unfortunately. I definitely pointed him out to Mikey and said "That guy really looks like Garrison Keillor. But no, right?"
I bought tickets to August: Osage County today, despite some feelings of sibling rivalry with Farns. People in my office have loved it, so I'm excited.
I ran into Christina, the teacher I worked with at St. Al's during winter study my junior year, on an elevator after class today. She's stopped teaching this year to get her MA in ed at NYU too. That was fun, and weird.
If all goes according to plan, I may be paid a small (but helpful!) amount of money to be an actor in a staged reading playwriting festival at a middle school in Brooklyn during January. File under "If you could invent one job for me, what would it be?" I haven't gotten confirmation yet, but I really hope it works out. I'm definitely psyched.
This semester is finally almost over--I'm excited about my classes for next semester. Well--excited about three of them, and the fourth is a big lecture class that I'm taking with Mikey (Adolescent Development). But that could at least be kind of interesting. My other ones are:
Teaching Expository Writing (I took a class this semester on teaching reading with the same teacher--she's really good in a way that reminds me of Ms. Johnson in high school. She's very well-prepared, classes are interesting, her assignments are good and helpful and she gives good feedback on them, she's very nice--she's just not, like, weird. Which is a trait I seek out in profs most of the time. But I just feel like I learned so so so much from her, and I do like her.)
Lit and the Adolescent Experience (with a professor Mikey met and liked a lot--he and I are taking it together. I'm really excited for that one--we basically read a lot of YA lit, I think.)
Dramatic Activities in the Elementary Classroom (Yeah...there's fieldwork for this one. Drama stuff with childrens. Need I say more?)
Also a 1-credit Storytelling class that I basically just take one weekend.
So, looks pretty good. Hurrah!
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| So, I had my iTunes on shuffle, and a Violet song came on. I decided to look up the original cast members. There are eight--and five of them have, before or since, been in shows produced by my office (1776, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Footloose, ITW, Beauty and the Beast, Secret Garden, The Who's Tommy).
Right now I really have to remind myself how cool my job is ( I mean, to me. It's nothing to brag about or anything.) The strike just makes everyone and everything so miserable that I feel like death when I get home (and I am the person in the office who has the least invested in the shows. )
Tina Fey invented a word on 30 Rock that has been my constant refrain: Blergh. Possibly "Blurg(h)" but whatever. It's onomatopoetic, I guess. But like, of a metaphysical sound.
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| For Halloween this year I was Taylor from Kid Nation. Kid Nation is definitely my favorite show this year (Pushing Daisies is maybe actually my favorite show but Kid Nation is my obsession.) Today we went to the drugstores where I bought a lot of discount Halloween candy that is actually kind of gross but what I call "sense memory candy" like Now & Laters and Hot Tamales. YUM.
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| We have a CAT! We adopted her today...her name (came named) is Willow and she's about two. She's fullgrown but she's a pretty small cat. Here's a picture:
She's a real sweetheart, and seems to prefer hiding behind us on the couch to hiding under the bed. The room makes her nervous but she loves attention from people so she just sticks close to us. The poor thing has been stuck in the system since she was found as a kitten on Staten Island--and all of her littermates were adopted except for her! I don't know why she didn't go sooner, but we got her and we're thrilled. Yay!
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| I auditioned tonight. It's called the Peace of Heart choir--www.peaceofheartchoir.org Basically, it's a choir that was founded after 9/11 for people to come together and sing and be able to serve the community by singing. They sing in a bunch of different languages, etc, and everyone I met was really nice. I'm super excited. But here's something completely bizarre: I'm a *soprano*. WTF? When did this happen? I used to pinch hit as a *tenor*. I mean, cool, whatever, but huh? Anyway, that starts next week (as do my classes) and I can't wait. I forgot just how much I missed it till I found a CD of Serenaders and Madrigals at Troy Music Hall--Bashana is on there, among other things, and man--pretty pretty song. If I stay with this choir through next season, I'm definitely going to propose that. But I'm *excited*.
And yeah, classes. That I already have a group project looming in. And have to read a book for, by Tuesday. Eek. Happily, Mikey and I have two classes together, and are in different sections of the same third class, which is a HUGE help for books. Which are myriad and expensive. Oh, 1914 Library, how I miss thee. But I'm solidly excited for at least two classes.
Really starting to feel like I'm solidly planted here. I like it :)
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