I'm pretty embarrassed.....it's been way too long since I've posted. And my friends who have lively, excellently written blogs are putting me to shame with their consistent posting. Although, in my defense, Lauren, I don't have an adorable red-headed child to write about, and my friend Melissa gave herself an actual project to focus on. Perhaps that's my main problem--this blog is too wide-open, not narrow enough for me to set goals by. I'm going to think on that and come up with something that will be easier for me to keep up with and more interesting for you to read! In the meantime, here's what's been going on in my world:
1) Rehearsals! I'm finally back on stage in a play after a much too long absense. It's Much Ado about Nothing set in the Tennessee hills. Naturally, with my "expertise" in Tennessee, I was asked to be the dialect coach. So, my new job is teaching Angelenos, who are from various places around the country, how to speak like different degrees of "hillbilly", as our director (from Alberta, no less) puts it. He also tends to ask me about other "hillbilly" related things, such as how they conduct themselves at dances. I gently remind him that though I am from the South, I am not a hillbilly and can therefore be no help to him.
2) Fires. The whole southern part of the state is burning. It's going to be (literally) 110 degrees today, with little to no wind. This means the smoke is hanging in the air making it very difficult to breathe. Add that to the general brown-smogginess of everyday life in LA and you have a lovely day in the Southland. I've never missed thunderstorms so much--if it rained right now I'd run outside and just stand in it for the pure pleasure of liquid falling from the sky. Seriously.
3) Here's a blog I really love that makes me laugh everyday: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/
OK, all, I will be making an effort to better put y life and thoughts up here. Until then, go back and look at my postings from my first impressions of LA (Sept. 07) and look at this one. Perspective, much?
1 comment:
Keep it up. Us boring Moms need something to live vicariously through. I want to be a dialect coach! But I would probably try to hard and speak in some fake Madonna-ish British mess of an accent. I expect more posts soon. :-)
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