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SO! after two weeks of ducking and diving and dog-paddling through a completely different and yet completely familiar life, i think i've decided to keep on keeping on with this blog. not, maybe, the most momentous decision, but still. it's a quiet life here in greenwood, virginia -- and one that i spend mostly glued to the computer. so you know, there it is.
i just finished The Princess Bride, which the lovely alexandra gave me just before i left London. it is indeed wonderful -- and it moves quickly without you feeling like you're reading cotton-candy, which is nice. and now i'm 100 pages into Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which i started (or rather re-started, since England cut me off the first time) yesterday as i was waiting to get my hair cut. i don't want to let it go, but at the same time i don't know if i can read it at night without weeping. his writing is so beautiful. even when it's by a nine-year-old! jesus.
this haircut is sort of (sadly) what i've been longing for since i got back. aahhhh so long overdue. i always like the days afterwards before i've washed it when i look strangely glamorous and completely unlike myself. oh the wonders a hair-straightener can do. too bad i'm entirely lazy in real life...
viola!
um, more importantly (that is, moreso than the otherwise entirely superficial content of this post): i've started writing something! who knows what will come of it but i'm REALLY excited. it was just sort of an explosion last night. i was driving home and just felt it under my fingernails and then i got home, sat down, and wrote till 1:30 in the morning. it's something i've been talking about with alex and colleen for a while -- possibly for Red Umbrella. it's rather like Vanya on 42nd Street, but with The Seagull. a play that intertwines a cast rehearsing The Seagull with The Seagull itself. i made charts of all the relationships and who-loves-whom in the Chekhov, and then the same sort of thing only all switched around for what's going on between the cast members. at this point i'm having a ton of fun with it -- though of course it's a little strange because in my fever to get started i used a ton of my real friends' names. ah well! theatre!
i am eating miraculous hippie food (wild rice, pecan & cranberry salad made by my mother) and looking forward to new york city in nine days!
SO! after two weeks of ducking and diving and dog-paddling through a completely different and yet completely familiar life, i think i've decided to keep on keeping on with this blog. not, maybe, the most momentous decision, but still. it's a quiet life here in greenwood, virginia -- and one that i spend mostly glued to the computer. so you know, there it is.
i just finished The Princess Bride, which the lovely alexandra gave me just before i left London. it is indeed wonderful -- and it moves quickly without you feeling like you're reading cotton-candy, which is nice. and now i'm 100 pages into Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which i started (or rather re-started, since England cut me off the first time) yesterday as i was waiting to get my hair cut. i don't want to let it go, but at the same time i don't know if i can read it at night without weeping. his writing is so beautiful. even when it's by a nine-year-old! jesus.
this haircut is sort of (sadly) what i've been longing for since i got back. aahhhh so long overdue. i always like the days afterwards before i've washed it when i look strangely glamorous and completely unlike myself. oh the wonders a hair-straightener can do. too bad i'm entirely lazy in real life...
viola!
um, more importantly (that is, moreso than the otherwise entirely superficial content of this post): i've started writing something! who knows what will come of it but i'm REALLY excited. it was just sort of an explosion last night. i was driving home and just felt it under my fingernails and then i got home, sat down, and wrote till 1:30 in the morning. it's something i've been talking about with alex and colleen for a while -- possibly for Red Umbrella. it's rather like Vanya on 42nd Street, but with The Seagull. a play that intertwines a cast rehearsing The Seagull with The Seagull itself. i made charts of all the relationships and who-loves-whom in the Chekhov, and then the same sort of thing only all switched around for what's going on between the cast members. at this point i'm having a ton of fun with it -- though of course it's a little strange because in my fever to get started i used a ton of my real friends' names. ah well! theatre!
i am eating miraculous hippie food (wild rice, pecan & cranberry salad made by my mother) and looking forward to new york city in nine days!
posted by sara at 12:23 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Girl. It was great to see you at the performances. Thanks for coming.
N.
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