not dead, just resting

so. Sets, I design them sometimes. I designed sets for the Music Man, it happened last weekend, completely consuming the two weeks prior.

I've realized I'm not actually a theater geek. I have very narrow tastes in plays, and I don't take a lot of pleasure in the process of rehearsing a play. BUT - I like building big things, and having them be USED and SEEN. And then I love love love strike, wherein we reduce the set to its component parts to be used for the next thing. I think I am an artist who likes to work BIG. I'm running with that description for the moment.

Lesson yesterday was good. I hate how it takes me most of a couple months to get confident again, and I hate having wibbly moments where really all I want to do is GET THE FUCK OFF. So when I stay on and things go well, it is reassuring.

And then, in a frenzy of experience gathering, the family is headed to NYC today (in two batches) to see Mathilda the musical, with music by Tim Minchin. Honestly. Roald Dahl and Tim Minchin. Things do not get better.