load out!!

did i tell you about last week's fiction writing assignment? it was supposed to be a story letter. i had no characters in mind, so i started with sorta real people, slightly twisted, and had them write letters to each other. anyway, ended up making it a letter from she who must not be mentioned to me about l. it ended up being really exaggerated, making her really mean and vicious, and displaying all of the things i'm self-concious or nervous about, all the things i wonder if perhaps i should be self-concious about, and all the things i'm not self concious about at all, but i suppose i could be under different circumstances...i won't let l read it yet because of this. it is fiction, after all, but it feels a bit like someting that could be true. but anyway, it's week 5, and time to have the work we've been turning in read to the class. the professor picks the strongest work from each of us over the past 5 weeks. he starts to read one, passes it off to someone, then another classmate. everyone reads a bit of their work and hears it read by someone else= then we have to guess who wrote it- are we starting to hear our classmates voices? i'm waiting and waiting for mine. it doesn't come up before break, and we're handed back last week's work. i look for the comments- when i see he starts with "kick-ass voice" i know that this is the piece he's gonna read of mine. eep! maybe my class just assumed every word came straight from my imagination, but still... i think i've come out to my entire fiction writing class. and read them every hang up about sex i could think of. sheesh.

stayed up till midnight last night with the germans. it's not fair, how busy i am and can't spend any more time with them. ch had recomended rock records to them, and they'd bought 4 new cds- pi got 2 jazz ones and anne the new dar williams and erin mckeown's grand!! isn't that just grand!! i loaded them onto both of our ipods!! horray. also- my box from lands end came. with my g'mas gift cert (from last christmas!) i got 3 pairs of tights, racing red mary janes, and a green cardigan. still not sure how i feel about the cardigan- it seems, oh, a little schoolmarmy for me. anne said perhaps i could decorate it. so perhaps i'll stop by handcock and pick up some sequins. you know, in my spare time....

worked at the flowershop today. it was a nasty day, cold and windy and rainy... blech. i was wearing my new orange ribbed tights wth my lime minidress, my german boots (lime with purple and pink) and my purple velvet suitjacket. oh, and my purple velvet stretch beret. def. should have been wearing a petticoat. brrr. had my hoodie at work, and that helped.

load out was today!! early afternoon i left the flowershop and went to the costume shop. everything was almost done. just elyz finishing up a dress, and some wigs to throw in. they already had everything all in a cart, bagged in plastic, ready to go. christopher and eliz helped me drag it the 4 blocks to the theater. and now it's all in its cubbies. waiting for dress on saturday. whoot. thank god it will all be over soon. this was the easy part on wild honey, but the super stressful part on sweet water taste. so i don't know what that bodes for the cripple of innishmaan. i think my throat is getting tighter. i can still swallow, but everything is hurting- i hope the stress ends before i have to stop eating.

came back to the flowershop to finish off the day. walked anne and peter to the blue line and said goodbye. they weren't here nearly long enough. and i was so very distracted. i feel bad about my tour guide duities. but i think they had a good time. as always, pictures soon. i promise. but i tech this weekend- the excuse for everything. and did i mention homework and a gender and culture paper? sigh. it's friday night. i can't even think about it.