Getting A Life

I've been a little bit... absent lately. In every respect.

Pushing through a bout of post-show blues, which happens, and is especially strong this time around. I think because I had so much keeping me busy and occupied really, since mid-February, I am now suffering the letdown of two and a half months of rehearsal highs. Not that I'm complaining. It has been a wonderful spring. And I am glad to have a break. Just unsure of how to fill it.

Because really, I haven't been so good about filling my life with anything other than theater.

When Kathy Bates spoke at our commencement ceremony she gave this wonderful speech with the main message being "Get a life!" It still sticks with me today, even if I have not managed to heed its plea. Her point was, fill your life with things other than this career choice. Sure, commit to the career, and put your heart and soul into it, and stay driven and organized and all of those essential things - but don't make it everything and all that you are.

I've been kind of guilty of that lately. So when the show is open and I am no longer needed there (total empty nest syndrome) well, umm, what do I do?

Get a life City Mouse, that's what you do.

Easier said than done.

I have been reading. Working a lot (which is sadly necessary). Cut my lawn with grass clippers. Making many ipod playlists. I went to the Dada exhibit. And I am waaaaay over planning my four days in New York, which currently includes drinks/meals/shows with best friends, ex-boyfriends, new friends, new mothers, recent transplants, new friends, and ma mere et mon pere.

Today's Playlist (no theme)

Buildings and Bridges - Ani
Don't Make Me Laugh - Gomez
Haiti - The Arcade Fire
TV Show - Martha Wainwright
Living Proof -Cat Power
The Slow Decent into Alcoholism - The New Pornographers
Wake Up - The Arcade Fire
Parting Gift - Fiona Apple
Sweet Virginia - Gomez
Lived in Bars - Cat Power
Left Behind - Aqualung
Whippin' Picidilly - Gomez
Red Red Red - Fiona Apple
We Haven't Turned Around - Gomez
Seventeen - Keren Ann
Lolita - Martha Wainwright
Mass Romantic - The New Pornographers

In other news, I had a lovely chat with "Wee Jane" (moniker courtesy of theaterboy) this morning during which I am sure I said many inarticulate and misguided things so that's something to look forward to.

Or maybe she'll just write "City Mouse is thirty" and nothing else, since she did indeed ask that question - to which I fortunately caught myself and stopped short of sighing and answering "almost THIRTY-ONE".