Oh Blog, I am sorry I neglected you

It’s been while since I blogged but I have been busy and busy times have come to an end. I just wrapped up Life After God with Vision Theatre. Although the old baby boomer critics seemed not to like it I know a lot of people who did enjoy the show. There were many opinions on this one. Ranging from I loved the acting not the script, to I loved everything about it, it spoke to me. The critics on the other hand are another story. I would not normally comment so long after a review, and really I get that a baby boomer would look at us and say “get a life” but one thing about one of the reviews which bothered me was a comment that Langston said about my character Julie. It says nothing about how I acted in the character but commented on a housewife who feels alone and distraught. This is what he said.” Julie (Chantale Plante) is a suburban housewife, although just what justifies her complaint that she's leading a "fictional life" is hard to say.” YA, only a MAN would say that! Need I expand on this point? As if being home in a life you didn’t dream for yourself as you have 2 wee kids screaming and shooting things, yelling, screaming at each other day in and day out would not make you feel trapped and like you are going nowhere. All the mothers/women I know got it right away. But that is all I will say about that.

I am both glad and sad that the show is over. Glad because I have my life back to read and cook and make sure my house is clean, but sad because I always enjoy working and playing with the Vision Family and the new people I just met were amazing. I know that I will work again with them in the future but it’s always sad to close a page on a show when you enjoy the people you work with.

So now I am theatre vacant. The only prospect I have is directing a Fringe show for my friend Nadine (I am excited about that). I mean I could audition for other shows but have made the choice to focus on my new job which won’t allow me much free evening time anyways. I had realized the reason I was doing so much theatre was that I was unhappy in my job , not working for the government per say, just I needed something new– I loved the people I was with, just it was getting boring and tiresome. So I needed to inject some new life in my day job. Now I am working in a new group of great people with a very busy schedule on a huge project with National significance. It’s fun. Have worked overtime already, and March and April are gonna be CRAZY with OT.....it's time in the bank I say. But should be good.

Saw THE BOSS play the halftime show at Superbowl on Sunday. To the uninitiated it was a fine example of how Bruce goes like that for 3 HOURS. He is non-stop. You saw 12 minutes of Bosstime fun. And speaking of Bruce,- yesterday Ticketmaster HELL is the talk of Backstreets.com (the Bruce Fan site). Seems that Ticketmaster has gotten into bed with a Broker (um scalper really), which doubles the price of tickets and seemed to have them even before Ticketmaster put the tickets on sale. How is that? Also it was such a mess yesterday. I kept getting these weird error messages about how they were doing Maintenance. My friend Steve managed to get us GA tickets for some obscure Pennsylvania town, but at least we will be able to see this new tour.

And finally, I am in recovery mode right now after having had a minor gum grafting yesterday after having put it off from December to now. It is annoying as hell for eating. Think of hot molten cheese from a Pizza having scorched the roof of you mouth. Then you have a piece a skin that was taken from that palate to you tooth and sewn on. Yup…sexy. I am friggin’ starving. I seem to be the only one who has problems eating with this. Tim had two teeth done at the same time in December and he seemed to just eat like normal….course that is Tim. The idea of any food stuff getting in my stitches area in my palate totally grosses me out. Hoping dinner goes better then it did last might with me mushing up my tortellini only to give Tim most of it out of frustration on how long it was taking me to eat. They say the mouth heals the fastest…so heal mouth HEAL!!!