Whoops, I missed April Fools Day!

I know, I know, once a month is not enough for the updating...

so... er... I will try to do better?!?

so, I got caught out on not telling my uncle about the "cancer" and I feel both guilty about it, and defiant...

The play I am working on right now, is very good, and EVERYONE is super nice and awesome.
and there are some very nice reviews out there. Nothing at my fingertips at the moment, so, you can google it yourself. All My Sons - Intiman.

So, the Intiman has been in some trouble, I may have mentioned, a recap would be, for at least two years we have been producing beyond our means, possibly longer, but we were better able to beg for money before... then we got a new artistic director and a new managing director and the economy went to crap... So, last year some people got fired, and this year, we thought we would have to close our doors, since I think all last year was financed by credit, or failure to pay. Anyway, at the beginning of the season we put out a plea, saying we needed a million dollars before the end of the season, with goals through out the year... and we mostly made our first goal... which was 500,000 by the 31st of March... we made 450,000 so, we will keep going till we get to our next fund raising goal of 250,000 by the end of June. Rumor has it we are applying for a grant from the Gates Foundation, though we are not really what they like to give money to, (education, and world health)... But ultimately, we will have to make more economical productions.

Lets see, I recently finished reading Stiff by Mary Roach, its about what people have done with dead bodies, cadaver research, organ donation, crash test dummies, making parts into teaching aids with plastic. It is my second Mary Roach book, I like her a bunch, and I am looking forward to her newest Packing For Mars. I am also at the very end of The Illiad on Audiobook, its pretty good, its the new translation by Robert Fagles, read by Derek Jacobi, I had to watch Troy again. So this leads me to my next quandry... I have Packing for Mars on audio book, and I have a paper copy of the Odyssey, so, what should be my next book? or something different? Fiction or Non-fiction?

Reading the Illiad, and watching Troy lead me to a new time waster on the Intertubes.... Listverse. it all started because Orlando Bloom is such a bad actor, and they have a list of bad actors, and he is in it, then which just leads to more lists.... its crazy, almost better than wikipedia.... I spent some time there too. Looking up various characters, I had no idea that almost all of the ancient greek writers had a different version of the Fall of Troy, and because of wikipedia, I do not have to read them all... to sound like a know it all. yay.

which leaves me to the knitting update...
I am trying to knit on unfinished projects every week, to maybe actually finish things. last week was my green Jane sweater, and I have almost finished both sleeves, so, progress, and this week I have to finish my other bear hug baby sweater. Of course, I also am starting two new projects soon, a pair of socks knit along, starting Tuesday, and a hat idea is percolating in my head for my niece Kimmy, I have some thrift store yarn, that I am making it with... and before anyone makes a comment in their heart about that, its silk and cashmere, and I have 4 colors of it, but not enough of anyone color so... stripes.

This update will have to keep you, I seem to be bad if I promise...

All My Sons Trailer

Why I don't trust Republicans - MSNBC special report

A joke

Because it won't fit on twitter. Stolen from Jon Olsen, who stole it from Aine.

"A public union employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies on it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, 'watch out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie.' "

Catching up with my life.

I know it's been a long time, I get distracted and then don't know what is new in my life... Or interesting. I'm typing this from my phone, and I didn't check my last post, which I vaguely recall covered my birthday. After that I worked on a dance show, I feel I covered that to, with a link. Then I went back to work with two week of lighting maintenance, where we got a lot done, more than normal because the designs for the rental that was in next were late. Then one last week off and I'm back for real.

So, this season I am doing the job of two people, they eliminated the second props artisan, so when I have free time while running shows, I work in the prop shop, it's what I have been doing for the last two weeks, and I've learned a little photoshop. I've been downloading copies of the Seattle Times, all the Sunday covers and some filler from August '46 and '47. Then I paste them together in a printable way and clean up the black lines and other mess from the originals. It's pretty fun.

Other than my fun job, the Intiman is funereal, it turns out, they say the previous managing director liquidated the endowment, and this is why we are fucked. But, this doesn't make much sense to me, an endowment is there to make use of the interest for special projects, and if he liquidated the endowment, only one million, why aren't more bills paid off. The only thing that makes sense is he used the endowment fund in the 2009 season, and ran out of money last season, then he got caught. But then why did it take so long for people to catch on, many vendors where not paid from the end of the season 2009, and each time an excuse was given, an account at a time unfrozen, and we were not allowed to question, or if after a long time same bad filling or some such excuse wasn't flying, then a different confusing lie, like our credit card limits do not reflect our actual limit, so that's why those are declined. Then something else. The midseason letters announcing that our health insurance had not been paid since the beginning of the 2010 season, were blamed on Evan. But the real reason was those funds were misdirected, that got fixed, but our pensions and union dues stopped. I think our union rep cornering our business rep was the first she knew anything about it. Who over sees this stuff.

Now, with a reduction in shows and performances and the like we might lose 24% of our wages from last year (already less than the year before) plus they want us to give up our $0.25 raise we got this year. If I thought the $300 dollars this raise represents next to the $10,000 I am already giving up, might save the theater, I might do it, but I don't trust the people who didn't know anything was happening, for a year, and tend to lie to make themselves look good. So, I might have to look for a new job for next year.

Sorry

I swear to god I will type something interesting.

Soon.

ok

Vacation is almost over.

So, I have just this weekend left until my "vacation" is over.

I have not accomplished much, if anything.

I made some cheese.
I organized half of the kitchen.
I read two books, and finished my first pair of mittens. I have lost and gained 10 pounds twice.
I have played with the cats a bit.
I have not really cleaned the apartment.
I did a tiny bit of yoga... which means I cleaned my room.
I started knitting a baby sweater, and I am a third of the way through it.still working on the same three pairs of socks, I am more excited about sweaters and baby things.

and thats it....

oh, I have also eaten at Chaco Canyon twice, and possibly again today.