just shit I have been doing.
Nov. 21st, 2010 01:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kleenexwomanI'm getting some really interesting calls at work. The other day, I spoke to a gentleman who needed assistance proposing to his girlfriend--he was going to take her around her hometown to places like the cemetery her ancestors were buried in, the restaurant her mother and father had their wedding dinner in...so I looked up all of these things for him :) I hope she says yes. (I got a call today from a lady in the same town looking for a bridal shop, so...maybe!) I've also had to field a few calls from people concerned specifically about their estranged significant others being able to call in and see where they are in the car, and I ended up having to explain that no, we can't just pull up your location if someone randomly calls in and also there are security measures.
Also, my dad's friend just got a new GM car and showed it to Dad, and of course, Dad was like, "Hey, you have OnStar! Let's see if we can get Rachel on the line!" He tried nine times. <3 my dad so much.
My rare days off are precious now. I am hanging out hardcore. Boyd just got into town and is recovering from septum surgery, so we're chilling while she's all drugged up. She's showing me TV shows and I'm bringing her bacon cookies. And I'm also hanging out with my new-ish friend Anna, from Whole Foods, who is teeny and Russian and has her own "chill room" in the basement of her apartment complex and is taking me to vegetarian restaurants.
The little brother has an intensely busy schedule, what with working two jobs and going to school full-time and also recording with his band, so I'm also hanging out with Mom. Mom is having her cabinets worked on during Thanksgiving so that she wouldn't have to cook, so: 1) I am staying at her house on Monday night so that I can stay Tuesday while the dudes installing the cabinets are there and keep her dog from annoying them, and B) we are going to an Italian restaurant for Thanksgiving because also I'm working that afternoon.
I'm also visiting my grandma, who's coping pretty well. We went to IKEA the other day, and I spent way more than I intended do on things like salad spinners and plastic bag caddies, and then I came home and cleaned my entire apartment because IT DID NOT LOOK LIKE AN IKEA STORE. Grandma was very taken with the modernism. She is cleaning out the basement and throwing out years of worn-out junk that Grandpa kept (including a number of clothes hangers and some kitty litter, now mine). They were both children of the Depression, but Grandpa definitely leaned to the "KEEP EVERYTHING AND EAT EVERYTHING" side of generational trauma, whereas Grandma came out of it with a distaste for bean soups.
This is probably the best time to have work, because with the winter I won't be wanting to go out as much--there's less to do outside, and the snow and ice and slush that will inevitably hit Michigan will make me not want to drive. (We've been lucky so far because there's been some weird jetstream effect that makes the days balmy, but shit is hitting the ground soon.) But I'm finding cozy places to hang out, like the steampunk bookstore that just opened up near me and is getting a LOT of press (CHECK IT THE FUCK OUT, it's great, they have tea and classes and goggles and lots of books, all the books you could ever want, and an airship hanging from the ceiling).
And I found what looks like a good place to get lunch on the days when I NEED TO GET OUT OF THE BUILDING--this little hole in the wall Vietnamese place I went today with $3 banh mi and great pho. I tried pho for the first time and LOVED it and this gangsta dude with this scraggly Fu Manchu facial hair set teased me about my chopstick grip. IF ANYONE WANTS TO MEET ME THERE ON THE LUNCH HOUR TO SLURP UP SOME TRIPE AND NOODLES, LEMME KNOW because otherwise I will be lazy and slowly drink a SlimFast while I sneakily write porn on my netbook.
HERE IS GOOD NEWS
In my senior year of high school, I wrote a little skit for a One-Act Play Festival. I volunteered to write the annual parody, and sat down at a computer during my lunch break and wrote The Parodie of Romeo and Juliet, which you can read here if you so desire. It was performed and I enjoyed it, and several years after that I got an e-mail from another high-schooler who wanted to perform it at a play festival her own school was putting on. I said yes, and asked only for credit and a recording of the performance, which she sent me. (And which I have misplaced, but I'm sure both videos are somewhere.)
Now, a woman who is attending Saint Anselm College who remembers watching her friend's performance of that play contacted me and wants to put on the play :D I told her of course, that all I asked in return was a recording of the play if possible, and she asked me for a bio blurb to put in the program. OH MY GOD, WHAT SHOULD I PUT IN IT. WHAT DO YOU PUT IN BIO BLURBS. I feel like having your high school parody produced once is a thing that happened, twice is good fortune, and three times MEANS SOMETHING.
Also, my dad's friend just got a new GM car and showed it to Dad, and of course, Dad was like, "Hey, you have OnStar! Let's see if we can get Rachel on the line!" He tried nine times. <3 my dad so much.
My rare days off are precious now. I am hanging out hardcore. Boyd just got into town and is recovering from septum surgery, so we're chilling while she's all drugged up. She's showing me TV shows and I'm bringing her bacon cookies. And I'm also hanging out with my new-ish friend Anna, from Whole Foods, who is teeny and Russian and has her own "chill room" in the basement of her apartment complex and is taking me to vegetarian restaurants.
The little brother has an intensely busy schedule, what with working two jobs and going to school full-time and also recording with his band, so I'm also hanging out with Mom. Mom is having her cabinets worked on during Thanksgiving so that she wouldn't have to cook, so: 1) I am staying at her house on Monday night so that I can stay Tuesday while the dudes installing the cabinets are there and keep her dog from annoying them, and B) we are going to an Italian restaurant for Thanksgiving because also I'm working that afternoon.
I'm also visiting my grandma, who's coping pretty well. We went to IKEA the other day, and I spent way more than I intended do on things like salad spinners and plastic bag caddies, and then I came home and cleaned my entire apartment because IT DID NOT LOOK LIKE AN IKEA STORE. Grandma was very taken with the modernism. She is cleaning out the basement and throwing out years of worn-out junk that Grandpa kept (including a number of clothes hangers and some kitty litter, now mine). They were both children of the Depression, but Grandpa definitely leaned to the "KEEP EVERYTHING AND EAT EVERYTHING" side of generational trauma, whereas Grandma came out of it with a distaste for bean soups.
This is probably the best time to have work, because with the winter I won't be wanting to go out as much--there's less to do outside, and the snow and ice and slush that will inevitably hit Michigan will make me not want to drive. (We've been lucky so far because there's been some weird jetstream effect that makes the days balmy, but shit is hitting the ground soon.) But I'm finding cozy places to hang out, like the steampunk bookstore that just opened up near me and is getting a LOT of press (CHECK IT THE FUCK OUT, it's great, they have tea and classes and goggles and lots of books, all the books you could ever want, and an airship hanging from the ceiling).
And I found what looks like a good place to get lunch on the days when I NEED TO GET OUT OF THE BUILDING--this little hole in the wall Vietnamese place I went today with $3 banh mi and great pho. I tried pho for the first time and LOVED it and this gangsta dude with this scraggly Fu Manchu facial hair set teased me about my chopstick grip. IF ANYONE WANTS TO MEET ME THERE ON THE LUNCH HOUR TO SLURP UP SOME TRIPE AND NOODLES, LEMME KNOW because otherwise I will be lazy and slowly drink a SlimFast while I sneakily write porn on my netbook.
In my senior year of high school, I wrote a little skit for a One-Act Play Festival. I volunteered to write the annual parody, and sat down at a computer during my lunch break and wrote The Parodie of Romeo and Juliet, which you can read here if you so desire. It was performed and I enjoyed it, and several years after that I got an e-mail from another high-schooler who wanted to perform it at a play festival her own school was putting on. I said yes, and asked only for credit and a recording of the performance, which she sent me. (And which I have misplaced, but I'm sure both videos are somewhere.)
Now, a woman who is attending Saint Anselm College who remembers watching her friend's performance of that play contacted me and wants to put on the play :D I told her of course, that all I asked in return was a recording of the play if possible, and she asked me for a bio blurb to put in the program. OH MY GOD, WHAT SHOULD I PUT IN IT. WHAT DO YOU PUT IN BIO BLURBS. I feel like having your high school parody produced once is a thing that happened, twice is good fortune, and three times MEANS SOMETHING.
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Date: 2010-11-21 06:56 am (UTC)It means YOU CAN WRITE AWESOME PARODY. <3
Bio blurb! Woot! The usual "lives with so-n-so and pets and loves such-n-such and here is the email address and/or website if you want more where this came from" or you could totally make something up like, "lives on Mars with Keanu Reeves' secret twin brother. Loves eating kittens and shooting the stars out with laser guns."
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Date: 2010-11-21 12:34 pm (UTC)And since I'm on the artistic committee for the theatre (responsible for picking future shows, excuse me now while I go read it...)
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Date: 2010-11-22 07:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-11-21 12:37 pm (UTC)Do you have a problem with me printing this out to present to the committee next month?
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Date: 2010-11-23 12:13 pm (UTC)Thanks again for the link!
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Date: 2010-11-22 03:15 am (UTC)Shakespeare: First of all, you can't say Pepsi. This school has a contract with the Coca-Cola company. LOL. Very cute play! I'd say it definitely MEANS SOMETHING.
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Date: 2010-11-22 07:18 am (UTC)Thanks! I'm glad people like the play :D