this morning i got up early and took Squire Tuck to the train station; he went with his german class to vienna for the day. i love europe. i then came home and took a two hour nap, in which i woke up a couple times from dreams that were remarkably not horrific, and so i made myself roll over and try some more. it was strange and lovely. i advocate naps but usually 20 minutes is all i can do before my brain starts cooking up new schemes for me to pick at, and so two hours was like an All Nap Extravaganza Variety Show with donny and sonny and cher and marie and purple socks and you babe.
i bought our tickets for february finally yesterday. shopping on the internet is so easy it almost doesn't feel like i'm trying; i got very angry at the systems that were booting me off for having a different IP than my (US) address led them to believe, the nosey parkers, but i finally got the tickets and it was cheaper than i'd expected, so yay me. i am so adept and whatnot.
after approximately 20 years of dressing as a stagehand i decided last winter to branch out into colors. COLORS! that is exciting, isn't it. apparently i decided going with just one color to start, and apparently that one color is "wine" because in unpacking my winter clothes i discovered that i now look like a stagehand with a drinking problem. perhaps next i will go for "green" and i can be a stagehand for a play about people who get lost in the woods while consuming a fine merlot. i spent about 20 minutes talking to andrea about this very important issue. i know it is dumb but it was so nice to not talk about something that cannot be solved. i am decided to be Trivial and Bubbly with Extra Trivia and Bubbles for the forseeable future, like possibly even until after new years.
the beer party was fun; Friar Tuck cleverly snuck in three (3!) non-alcoholic beers, despite which we managed to drink off most of our discerning tastebuds well before we made it to the end. this means we have some for the next time you come to visit, but you'd better make it soon, because now that we know what we like, we're probably going to go through it fairly quickly. slurp.
circus performance next tuesday. pictures then, if nothing before then comes to mind.
A stagehand with a dinking problem? That made me laugh. Thanks.
Posted by: SJ | December 09, 2006 at 01:42 AM
nice to read what you write, especially your bio. i'm american, currently living in the pacific northwest of the US, but planning to possibly move to england with my english partner in the spring. i spend a lot of time wondering what i'll do and how i'll do it. i mostly wonder how i'll make a living with an american law degree in england and fantasize about more and more school to keep my brain from drying up. nice to imagine you living a nice life in the czech republic. if you can do it there (and with a kid!) i can do it in england. maybe.
Posted by: dawn | December 10, 2006 at 08:05 PM
I'm not sure how stagehands dress but I have a feeling I dress like one. I used to be all about the color when I was young and adorable but now grey, black, brown, white is all I can handle. I do add a primary color that isn't yellow now and again since that seems less egregious.
Posted by: ozma | December 11, 2006 at 07:25 AM