Last year, I made a bingo card out of all the things I wanted to accomplish. I knew they wouldn’t all happen. I knew a baby would throw a wrench in my best laid plans. So I played bingo with it, instead. I met almost half my goals. Somehow. A few things that did not […]
Tag: shenanigans
Distractions
This week’s distractions: Signing up for a master class in acting, put on by a local professional theater company. Working on my Halloween costume, which requires sewing lessons with my grandmother. The program (tentative) for the World Fantasy Convention next month. This year’s focus is on epic fantasy, which is much more my flavor than […]
New Play Festival
In addition to the overflow of ideas in September, some bizarre part of me thought it would be an excellent idea to sign up for the 24 Hour New Play Festival. As a writer. This is how it works: a group of awesomely insane people get together on a Friday night and split into teams […]
The Devil’s Puppet Show
Oh, Internet. I have so much to tell you! Potential theatre-related opportunities are cropping up in the strangest (and best) of places. They may amount to nothing, but just the experience of trying will be priceless. Dracula has been insanely popular. Even our “slow” nights draw decently sized audiences. An iconic story like Dracula performed […]
Why I Haven’t Posted
Confidence. Once upon a time, I had none. High school theatre helped. It gave me the courage to explore, to try on different personas until I found a combination that fit right. College for me was more about the people and the experience than the academics. Funny, since I went so deeply in debt for […]
Dear A$$hat, An Exchange
On my way to lunch, I passed this particular asshat on his way in. AH: What’re you, leaving? MJ: Running away; I saw you coming. AH: Better run faster. . . . On the whole, this would have been significantly less disturbing without our last meeting: AH: *in a voice and manner that reminds me why […]
Dear A$$hat
*Note about this post: I am experimenting. Because people are stupid and my patience is finite. Dear Asshat who told me (again) that if I ever get divorced, he’ll take me (he’s married too [which somehow makes this ok?], but “that’s what lawyers are for”): No. Hell, no. With such a classy display of disrespect for […]
Refilling the Well
Oh, WordPress. It’s discouraging when you eat my drafts. The Husband keeps suggesting that I draft in another program. He’s smart like that. I have yet to take his advice. Oh, well. I intended to write a post about my trip to NYC. Because it was amazing. I was going to write about the amazing […]
Update (The Highlights)
Life since my last update: My youngest sister had her baby! She then got married Which happened just a few days after my uncle’s funeral And while I was besieged by The Plague, requiring that I communicate via whiteboard. I have not been writing much (which has a lot to do with the lack of […]
The Book List, 2014
The last few years, I’ve kept a list of the books I’ve read. It’s fun to revisit them at the end of the year. But it 2014, I also kept a record of days when I didn’t write. The grand total of 2014’s non-writing days? 12. The awesome of that somewhat balances the fact that I […]
Melissa Burkart 