Chicago Sketchfest

Around 3:30 today I received a call from Logan asking me if I could fill in for one of the actors in Ruby Weapon. I agreed, and then only had 2ish hours to learn the lines before heading down to the theater.

Luckily it wasn't a ton of lines and everyone was helpful about answering my questions.

The show was a lot of fun and the highlight (for me) was seeing a band that included a flute, violin, and accordian play 'Kiss from a Rose' while Tim Racine sang to a giant mutant monster (played by Mike Madgiak).

The line for Hot Doug's.

Even though it was pretty cold, Andi & I ventured over to Hot Doug's for some delicious meat.
The wait outside was at least an hour but there were some entertaining distractions in line, for one thing I couldn't tell if the teenagers in front of us were dating or brother and sister. A mom-type was with them and she fussed over them equally. But then the 2 teenagers seemed to be pretty flirtatious. I never did figure it out.

By the time we were almost in my toes were so cold they hurt and I sincerely considered bailing...but we were so close, so I toughed it out.

Once we were in I had a bacon sausage hot dog and an antelope sausage hot dog, with duck fat fries, of course. Totally worth it.

Side note: Later that night the HouseCo show sold out and then Sunday we already had 30 pre-sold tickets for next weekend. I'm pretty excited about it, audiences really seem to be enjoying the show. Which is great, since I enjoy doing it.

Zach & Alan's kitty.

All Skate had a show tonight, one of our first scheduled weekend shows.

Afterwards I went over to Zach's and amused myself by playing with the kitty and a laser.

For about an hour, I think.

She got tired of it before I did.

Burns

My hair has gotten pretty long (for me) so I have been curling it in lieu of getting a cut. The downside is I burn myself every time. Every. Time.
These are 2 recent ones and as you can see, they are pretty close together.

That's right, I'm not only burning myself repeatedly, it's also roughly in the same spot.
I have no idea how it's happening either, I am trying to be careful and then suddenly there's a searing hot pain.

It's probably somewhat related to my clumsiness, as most of my bruises and scars are.
It really takes a special kind girl to constantly burn herself, repeatedly walk into door frames, and trip going up the stairs.

Laundry Day.

Lately Andi and I have been trying to do our laundry in a reasonable amount of time (ie not wait 2 months). We've been shooting for once every 2 weeks, but sometimes our other obligations will get in the way and it will take longer.
Because of the holidays it took 3 weeks this time, which ended up not being so bad.
The laundromat was even deserted, only one other girl was there and she left awhile before we did.

It's a cute time for Andi and I to chat and catch up, even though we live together we aren't both home very often.
The last time we went a strange woman decided to butt in on our conversation.
She completely misintrepreted what we were talking about and gave us some unsolicited advice, then launched into how disgusting Tiger Woods was. I managed to slip away, leaving Andi alone with her.

Woman: ...and he was just sleeping with all these women...
Andi: (dejectedly) Oh...

Andi then caught my eye across the room and I couldn't stop giggling.
She wasn't mad though, I'm sure if she could have escaped instead of me, she would have.

HouseCo poster in my cubicle.

Things are still going well at work, although January is the last official month of the temping portion of this gig.
But people seem to enjoy working with me and after I hung up the poster, they even started requesting tickets for my show. One of the admins came the weekend after Christmas and she really seemed to enjoy it.

So I am hopeful about getting hired on permanently, but I don't want to jinx it.
I only have a few cute decorations up - the SC chair mentioned earlier, some pictures, the poster - but that's it.
After all, I don't want to have too much to carry if it doesn't work out.
But it will work out...right? Right?

Currently Reading...

A once-favorite author of mine, LJ Smith, has been re-releasing her books from about 10 or more years ago.

When I was in junior high I began reading her various series, one of which involved the end of the world.
At some point while writing the books the author had a family medical emergency and stopped writing before the very last book was completed. 15 year old me was devastated.
So devastated in fact, that it's been a decade and I have never stopped checking to see if the book would be released.

Then one of her other series, The Vampire Diaries, was picked up by the CW to be a tv show. Suddenly all of her books are available AND she is finishing the last book from the other series. So I purchased every book from the unfinished series (The Night World) plus the trilogy pictured above.

Re-reading the books I feel a mixture of young awkward me, delighted with every word in the book, combatting with older awkward me, who is well aware that these books are geared towards a much younger audience. Younger me usually wins. But older me reared its head today on the train when I came across the phrase "psychic vampire" and suddenly realized that the font is large enough for strangers around me to be reading along.