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It is Sunday night what?
Jan. 21st, 2007 10:28 pmIf I'm slow to reply or... you know... exist online these days, it is because I have been devoured by either work or puppetry practice. OMFG puppetry practice is devouring. This is in part because of Heidi, who I need to meet up with for practice, having the whole six-week-old baby thing going on, along with the six year old. Both baby (Iris Tegwyn or Teggy for short), and midget (Thea), are about as good and patient as you can expect chiddlers of those respective ages to be. It's still a struggle for Heidi to get out the door and then get full sentences or an hour straight of practice without interruptions. I don't really mind because I remember the way the puppet show goes pretty well, so I can work mostly on my own, but there's technical stuff I've needed help working out. Like the most important scene in the whole show, where Fisi the hyena plants the baobab tree upside down.
That's what happens on the shadow screen. Fisi digs a hole, pushes the tree over, and dumps it into the hole upside down. What happens on my end is I do this thing where both tree and hyena puppet flip around on their respective little rods while I switch hands and make them land in a way that has to be right the first time without leaving any dead time onscreen.
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So this is what eats up my days off. I've also had an annoying head cold for almost a week and that's dragging me down, plus this random pain in my right arm that requires both painkillers and sleeping pills at night. I'm pretty sure it's a pinched nerve. I'm not sleeping real well so even when it's just regular work for the day, I don't usually feel like doing much by the time I get home in the evening.
In other news, I took the girl to work with me today because she took a class, and got a panicked call from the boss' daughter after I'd been there about a half hour, because it was snowing. The panic was unwarranted, because both class teacher and my coworker showed up on time, and the snow turned to rain. We thought it was just rain, until I went to leave work, and had to spend twenty minutes scraping ice off the car. Urgh. With my aching arm. We went straight to her parents' house for dinner even though we were early, mostly because we were hoping they'd have a better car scraper because mine almost broke. Had to scrape it a second time when we left there but her dad gave us a nice metal one and helped. It's supposed to be 51 tomorrow so hopefully I won't have a repeat of that right away.
I think that does it for my ability to sit at the computer and be coherent today.
Oh yeah! I have new boots! Ones where you can't see my socks through the sole. Just got them last night.
WTF of the day: My boots are men's boots, and the style is 'Bruisers'. They were in the mens section along with other tough guy styles 'Black Bolo', 'SWAT', and 'Kate'. Yeah, that's right, Kate. They're very manly.
That's what happens on the shadow screen. Fisi digs a hole, pushes the tree over, and dumps it into the hole upside down. What happens on my end is I do this thing where both tree and hyena puppet flip around on their respective little rods while I switch hands and make them land in a way that has to be right the first time without leaving any dead time onscreen.
( more rambling and pictures )
So this is what eats up my days off. I've also had an annoying head cold for almost a week and that's dragging me down, plus this random pain in my right arm that requires both painkillers and sleeping pills at night. I'm pretty sure it's a pinched nerve. I'm not sleeping real well so even when it's just regular work for the day, I don't usually feel like doing much by the time I get home in the evening.
In other news, I took the girl to work with me today because she took a class, and got a panicked call from the boss' daughter after I'd been there about a half hour, because it was snowing. The panic was unwarranted, because both class teacher and my coworker showed up on time, and the snow turned to rain. We thought it was just rain, until I went to leave work, and had to spend twenty minutes scraping ice off the car. Urgh. With my aching arm. We went straight to her parents' house for dinner even though we were early, mostly because we were hoping they'd have a better car scraper because mine almost broke. Had to scrape it a second time when we left there but her dad gave us a nice metal one and helped. It's supposed to be 51 tomorrow so hopefully I won't have a repeat of that right away.
I think that does it for my ability to sit at the computer and be coherent today.
Oh yeah! I have new boots! Ones where you can't see my socks through the sole. Just got them last night.
WTF of the day: My boots are men's boots, and the style is 'Bruisers'. They were in the mens section along with other tough guy styles 'Black Bolo', 'SWAT', and 'Kate'. Yeah, that's right, Kate. They're very manly.
