Current mood:

calm

Rest Day
I have been meaning to post. Really I have. I even attempted to post something Wednesday night, only to be thwarted by severe wrist pain. This is what I have been up to, in brief:

1) Rehearsals in the mornings! At this point I am not doing much but sitting around and attempting crowd control and trying to keep the masses of communication and information under control, but that will change! I love all of our kids and their hilarious ways, but I particularly as of late laugh at Emmalee (one of two Olivers), who prances like a horse when bored, and Paul (Fagin), who twirls when bored. I love every one of them.

2) Work. Nothing much to say there, though the kids have been setting me on edge this week. Two in particular--one of mine and one of the other class. Friday was a rough day (well, afternoon) because for like two hours there was always at least one kid crying, and one child (a favorite of mine, but a terror) gets into everything and is uncontrollable.

3) Saw Easy Virtue Thursday night and enjoyed it. I love Kristen Scott Thomas, I LOVE Colin Firth (I have been known to watch awful movies *coughwhatagirlwantscough* repeatedly just because I love him), I love the 20s, and yeah, it was like Gosford Park if it had been funny.

4) Went out last night for Kasey's birthday--to Outback (blueberry martini that I knocked back since it tasted all syrupy and not alcoholy, like soda, except that I think the alcohol was just hidden, plus for the first time I had one of those blooming onion things and it was delicious, and I filled up on the blooming onion and bread and then couldn't finish the steak portion of my grilled-shrimp-and-steak dinner.), and then to Metropolis, which is a club, where I danced for four and a half hours and then there was the long drive back home, and dragging into bed at a bit before four AM. Whee! The group consisted of Kasey and me, Kasey's two sisters, and four women from work.

5) Draaaaaagged myself to my dad's house to see the annual street sale, drinking some ginger tea. Some interesting things, but nothing I was quite willing to spend money on. And then we went to Lowe's and picked out some paint for my old bedroom (we want to get it relatively fixed up by the time Rob comes to visit, should he use the room) and by that time, between my sore, sore wrist and my exhaustion from getting roughly five hours of sleep, I was ready to go home despite vague plans of clothes shopping.

6) About the wrist--I have strained my right thumb. Yesterday it felt better, but today it has felt awful. I think being at the club made it worse. (You know, dancing for a long time, moving my arms/hands around instead of resting them quietly.) And I missed a couple of Advil times. I tried to rest more after getting home today--reading, a small nap, and computer, having not done much on the computer for the last two days.

7) I am now reading three books, as follows:

-Little, Big, which, again, is slow but thoroughly enjoyable. I hesitate to say that I love George Mouse, because I fear he will be shady, and I have secret, secret hopes that somehow someone will rescue long-lost August (did something like that happen in Jonathan Strange...?), and for some reason I love Auberon (old Auberon). I am nearing the halfway point, I think.

-Pride and Prejudice, which is definitely good, but which I am having trouble focusing on, it being my work book, and either A) having to keep children under control at work during nap, or B) struggling to stay awake during nap.

-Twilight. An easy read. My brother (MY BROTHER) really likes it, so I thought that I would give it a try, that I might give a good argument as to why it isn't good (when I tried in Baltimore, he just went, "Have you read it?"). It seemed like the kind of book I should work on today, when I was shuffling exhaustedly around my apartment and clutching my sore wrist to my stomach. I shall write more on it later, but for now let me say that I was hoping it would be hilariously bad, but so far (less than halfway through), I just find it fairly bland, except for Edward, the strongest personality in the book. And a bit of a shadester.

I am convinced that tomorrow I will feel better, and I am going to shop and possibly visit a bakery and probably pay a visit to GoettaFest. Just now I am watching Emma, being in the mood for something light and fun and squishy.