20 days since my last post??? Whoops!

Hey fans. Sorry it has taken me so long to write another post. I got 3 different requests for a blog update, so here goes. I hope you all found ways to spend your time while you waited on this.

So right now my brain is taken up with rehearsals for the workshop we are presenting on Thursday and Friday. It is called LET'S GO:

(I took that picture of Jordan and Geo on a beach in Oregon in mid-February).

So LET'S GO is a very artsy, non-linear, collage-style piece that shows us exploring WAITING FOR GODOT (you may all remember this play from my senior year of high school, when I played Vladimir.) GODOT is an absolute masterpiece. A beautiful, funny, sad, profound play about two men waiting on a road, underneath a dead tree, for someone named Godot, who never comes. In the meantime, Vladimir and Estragon do a lot of vaudeville-style physical comedy (pants falling down, funny Charlie Chaplin-style hat tricks) and they try to remember what they did the day before and why they are there, waiting. It is a timeless metaphor for our existence on earth, and how we pass the time, and what it all means. The last lines of the play are:

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we go?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's go.

They do not move.

So CollaborationTown has taken this play and combined it with the story of a neuroscientist who had a stroke, reached Nirvana, and was able to study it all while it happened (she was on Oprah yesterday!) The result is a meditation on waiting, searching, relationships, existence, and happiness.

So that's what I'VE been doing!

I also went to a wedding shower on Sunday for my good friends Shana and Rob. Shana and I have been friends since we did the Directing Lab at Lincoln Center together. So, the night before the shower I realized I hadn't bought her a gift, so Sunday morning before we left I walked up and down Graham Ave near my apartment searching for a store that was open that could sell me something for her bathroom or kitchen, which was the theme of the shower. I ended up getting her $20 worth of soap at a deli on the corner and putting it in a bag from the 99 cent store. Ugh! I'm a bad friend. But I will be flying down to Atlanta for her wedding, so that makes me a good friend.

Jay got an electric blanket the other day and I got under it for the first time last night and it was awesome! That means the summer is officially over! (i've been in denial for awhile).

I got a calendar at Duane Read the other day called KITTENS AND PUPPIES 2009. Here's the cover picture: