Accomplishment chart, 7/26 - 8/1

For the week of 7/26 – 8/1:

Writing
- worked on script for film version of Mrs. Hawking
- wrote “Believing in Heroes” short play for day 1 of 31 Plays in 31 Days
- 5 blog entries
- 7 daily Hipster Feminist tweets

Theater
- blocked Richard III piece for GHOSTSHOW
- accepted role of Gabriella in Zero Point’s production of Boeing-Boeing
- accepted costumer job for production of Tom Sawyer
- had read through for Boeing-Boeing

Larp
- helped run The Prince Comes of Age at WPI

Sewing/Costuming
- hemmed my short black trousers into capris
- got sizing information for Tom Sawyer costumes

Media
- watched season three of Downton Abbey

Cooking
- made zucchini bread out of garden zucchini
- made roast garden beets with sautéed onions, tomatoes, and squash
- made beet salad and mashed potato and parsnip

31 Plays in 31 Days: #2 - "Like a Loss"

So I am doing it. I am giving you all the first-ever first person look at the most speculated-upon character in the Mrs. Hawking universe, the late Colonel Reginald Prescott Hawking. I am not sure, in the grand scheme of the story, if it's better to always leave you guessing about him or if your desire to know more about him should be fulfilled, but for scribbling purposes it's all right.

One big question regarding the Hawkings' relationship is how they interacted given the huge amount of silence, secrecy, and distance between them, and the one-sided nature of the affection. It's a little hard for me to conceive of, as it's tough to imagine how little talking and communication there would have to be to allow that, but this scene is my attempt to show a bit of how it might have been. I may decide later this is not entirely canon, but it's a stab at figuring it out.

Also, I've been watching Downton Abbey so this sort of master-servant relationship is in my head right now. I think, after the Colonel's death, Mrs. Hawking got rid of Chapman so fast it made his head spin. Which did nothing to improve his opinion of her. I think he works for Nathaniel or maybe Ambrose or Justin now, but he's still bitter.

This is somewhat spoilery for Mrs. Hawking.

( Day #2 - "Like a Loss" )

Reminder for artists

Posting this as a reminder, because it very nicely explicated the value of things like 31 Plays in 31 Days. I found it on twilighttremolo's Tumblr:

“The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups.
All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: 50 pounds of pots rated an “A”, 40 pounds a “B”, and so on.
Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get an “A”.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity.
It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
Art and Fear - David Bayles and Ted Orland (via ficklefandoms)
Good to remember.
(via notfrancienolan)