Skin

So, this isn’t working out too well. This whole keeping-up-with-everything and continuing to blog about it. I’m thinking it’s becoming too much. Or it has already become too much.

What, what, what, what, what. So much.

Highlights:

*Saw LIFE’S A DREAM. Lovely work all around.

*Saw the INKWELL project, OK. Really beautiful writing and so many interesting things going on. It generated a lot of provocative conversations, which to me is a great compliment to a theatrical piece. Also got to spend a little time with CP and HPMelon, though everyone was a little bit too sick and a little bit too tired. Seems to be the trend these days.

*That night I was sitting on a bench at H Street talking with Jackie and I told her about my recent WHAT NOT TO WEAR obsession. I also told her that I thought I’d be a perfect candidate but C wouldn’t nominate me because he doesn’t believe in TLC Television like I do. So she said “I’ll nominate you” and I said, “Really, really, do!” and then when I saw her three days later I said, “Remember the other night I tried to get you to nominate me for WHAT NOT TO WEAR” and she said “I did nominate you. You wanted me to. Did you not want me to?” And I think it is truly amazing and wonderful that she really did it. I am keeping my eyes peeled for random market researchers now, really I am.

*I had dinner again at Café 8 on Barrack’s Row. The joint was jumping. Hurrah.

*Saw a run through of SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOWS before they head into tech over at Catalyst. Seriously, this is going to be very funny stuff folks. Do not miss it.

*Have been working on another Adam Bock project (Yes this qualifies as a minor obsession. What can I say. He rocks.) The folks finishing the honor’s year over at the Theater Lab have arranged to put together a showcase project so we will be presenting two weekends of FIVE FLIGHTS. More information on that to come.

*Saw Sweeney Todd. Was surprised that Tobias was a child, but apparently that was the original intent of the story. I enjoyed it, though I have to say I missed the effect that truly rich, full vocal tones bring to this music. The actor-singers weren’t BAD singers; they just weren’t singers, so you get that thin, tinny vocal effect like in Moulin Rouge. It’s not bad it’s just different. Some of the different I liked, some I did not.

*Went up to NY for a quick 10 hours (no joke). Saw Benjamin make his NYC Cabaret debut. It was fabulous. He is fabulous. Tears. Laughter. Tears. Laughter. Hellos. Catch-ups. Memories. Good-byes. Ben’s tiny white kitty. Alarm clocks. Travel. Back to dc.

Lowlights:

*Have been locked out of the house for two days. Remedying that tonight. Our enormous mottled kitty is going to be really pissed off.

*Was informed by one of my “supervisors” at this new “temp job” that she had been asked to talk to me about their “dress code”:
Me: Am I not dressy enough?
(I’d been digging through my closet to resurrect my temp clothes circa 1998, which are pretty awful but really quite conservative. And they seemed to fit in with everyone else’s choices.)
Her: No, it’s not about dressiness…
Me: …?
Her: It was reported that at some time yesterday there was a line of skin showing between your pants and the bottom of your shirt.
Me: …?
Her: We are a conservative organization. We can’t show skin. No shirts with sleeves above the elbow. Nothing low cut. No exposed midriffs.
(Let it be known that I had worn two shirts that day, one layered over the other to assure that nothing would ride up or down. Two shirts. I checked. Nothing was exposed.)
Me: Hmmm. I must have been stretching to reach for something. And a line of skin showed, huh. Like for a minute. And someone reported me. Huh.
Next week I’m wearing a burqua.