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God, I have been busy. Rehearsals started for Mrs. Hawking, and with all the planning plus the time they take have really eaten up my minutes. I haven't written on here in days, which I hate doing. Things are going pretty well, but I'm nervous at how many people we've missed from the initial blocking of scenes. We've got so little time, I really hope it's enough to both catch them up and allow them to practice enough to get things smooth.

On the positive side, I've actually been really happy with how the blocking has been coming out, and the way the actors present have interpreted it. I think this could be a really good show, if I manage to pull everything together, and work through the things that go wrong.

Back from the wedding, which made for a lovely weekend where I could take a break from thinking about my life. Now, however, there's no more avoiding it. I have a crazy, demanding week ahead of me that has my stomach in knots from the stress of everything I have to get done. I have jumped in, but there's just so much to get through.

My depression has always been situational, and usually in response to some seriously bad life state. Jared's black cloud of a presence, my mother's illness. Nothing's bad on that level, but certain life things unraveling has left me feeling increasingly adrift and uncertain. I feel so pathetic saying I'm worried I'm getting depressed again, especially since I know so many people with way more serious stuff going on. The only thing that worked to lift it in previous instances was the circumstances changing for the better. But if I knew how to change my current circumstances, I don't think I'd be feeling like this.

After several solid weeks of basically continuous writing work, I have submitted mine and Bernie's new screenplay Adonis to the contest it was written for. I had planned on spending today as well as tomorrow chilling on any kind of productive writing work, but as it turns out, you can re-edit entries from previous years and submit them again too. So I decided on a whim to go over The Tailor at Loring's End and put it in the fray a second time. It did well last time, and hopefully I've improved it-- I punched up the ending to make Alice more active, and hopefully ratchet up the tension. Having two pretty strong (in my opinion) horses in the race can't be a bad thing, right? :-)

That means I have one day basically, tomorrow, to rest before I have to dive back into writing work. I promised Troy I would get back to Puzzle House Blues in August, and I definitely want to do 31 Plays in 31 Days again. Not much of a rest for me, unfortunately, even though after all that work I feel pretty burnt out. Ah, well. I'm proud of what I've accomplished, and I don't want to stop there. So I guess I'll jut have to keep plugging.

I have so many writing projects that I need to accomplish in the near future, and I find it helpful to lay out a plan and prioritize so I know what to focus on. So here’s what I’m thinking, at least for the next two months or so.

I have plunged into draft 4 of the new musical, Puzzle House Blues. I am making the last round of edits to the text before I arrange a second reading. Troy has made excellent progress on the composition of music and lyrics for the songs, for which I am providing some editorial input. I expect all of that to get finished in the next few weeks. Then we’ll have to make rough song recordings so we can play them to our readers, to enable them to get the full narrative effect.

The other major thing I have to work on immediately is my new screenplay, intended to enter into this year’s Big Break Screenwriting Contest. I made it into the top ten percent of all entries last year with The Tailor at Loring’s End, so I want to have something to enter this year as well. I have yet to talk about that piece here on the blog, but now’s a good a time to introduce it as any. It’s a little tough to explain, but it’s a sort of a feminist creative experiment. I wanted to take a set of gendered tropes, roles, and power dynamics and fill them with members of a different gender than the ones we’re conditioned to expect. The aim is to highlight the existence of those tropes by taking them out of the gender contexts we’re accustomed to so that familiarity does not permit us to ignore them. Basically, it’s an epic set in an alternate history with a matriarchal Ancient Rome, where an exalted female general challenges the empire when she falls in love with a beautiful male slave-turned-gladiator. I am calling it Adonis, and it will involve certain things that I’m not used to writing about, but I think it has the potential to be a really powerful story. The draft’s about thirty percent done at this point, and needs to be ready for a submission deadline at the end of July.

Lastly, when August comes around again, I would like to again participate in 31 Plays in 31 Days, where you write a play of at least one page in length for every day of the month of August. It has done wonders for my productivity in the past, giving me lots of great short pieces and even chunks of larger scripts that I otherwise would not have written. So I’m excited to do it again. Last year, I mostly produced the latter, many of which would later become the meat of Vivat Regina, the second Mrs. Hawking story. I would love to get a start on the as-yet-untitled third installment the same way, although any new writing I produce during that time would be welcome.

When I said no new commitment for a while, I'd forgotten that I had at least one more to polish off before I'm really free. I'm doing costuming for a production of Chicago done at Dana Hall, a girl's prep high school in Wellesley, and it goes into tech week next week. It's a nice gig, and I can use the extra money, but it means I have deadlines and places to be for one week more. I did a bunch of alterations in the last few days, and made a ton of fringed skirts today. I've also got a couple of modeling engagements coming up, which are nice because they pay a very decent hourly rate, but are more time sinks. I'm working hard to fit everything in around each other.

What I really want to do is work on my new screenplay idea. Maybe it's the enthusiasm of productive procrastination, of which I am a master, or maybe it's because the ideas are flowing for it so easily and so well, but I feel so jazzed about it. Even better, I told Bernie my ideas last night, and he had such great responses and gave me so many exciting suggestions. I'm so lucky that I have someone like him who is always interested in my work and capable of making such helpful contributions. He has a great skill for the structuring of plot, so he's always able to fill out where mine are lacking. I think this really could be an amazing story. Here's hoping my enthusiasm holds into the next week, when I'll actually have time to write it all out.

Now that Festival is over, I find myself with minimal outside commitments that have deadlines and places I have to be. I think this is a good state for me for the time being. I've been feeling overwhelmed and pressed so much, and I want to turn my attention to writing projects primarily. So, for the time being, I will join no projects, make no outside commitments, and give myself no deadlines that aren't related to the pieces I want to be writing.

I need to write the next draft of my new musical, Puzzle House Blues. I got a lot of good feedback from friends at a reading dinner as well as from my collaborator Troy, and I need to implement it. It needs some restructuring, so I think I'm going to write a new outline and then rearrange and reshape the scenes based on that.

You may remember that last year I entered my screenplay, The Tailor at Loring's End, in the Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest. I actually did really well, making it to the Quarter Finals. I want to have something new to enter in that competition this year. I won't have feedback from my professional teachers on this one, but I have a new idea that's worth a shot, so I'm going to give it a try.

My new idea is pretty weird. It's dark and a little kinky; I want to make a feminist point in a way that may be really off-putting to mainstream audiences, which could reduce my chances of having it go far in the contest. But I really like this idea and think it would make an amazing movie, so I'm going to make the attempt.

I might write about the story here, get a little feedback. The particular weirdness of it makes me slightly embarrassed to talk about it, but I do think it's an interesting idea. We'll see how I feel as I develop it a little more.

Today will be the first day in like a million days that I can just go home after work and not have to go anywhere to do anything or have to see anybody. I cannot express how much I need that. Lately I've had a ton of obligations and while it was good stuff, I'm all peopled out now and just want to hide and recharge.

It will also be good to buckle down and get some writing done. I am always most productive when I know I have a good long stretch of time where I have no other commitments. Maybe it's because I find that notion relaxing, which facilitates creativity. I have larp writing to do as my first priority, but there's also the new musical, as well as any number of other things.

So, for you my legions of adorers who may clamor for my time tonight, alas but you are OUT OF LUCK. Because I am throwing myself a party and I'm the only one invited. It's going to be a sick time of flopping around the house, listening to mindless TV in the background during many hours of quiet reflection. Kickin' it hermit-style. ;-) Aw, yeah.

A quick status update.

GHOSTSHOW is finished and I feel very good about what we did. I want to take a short break to recharge a little, then I'll have to get on the stick again and start my next project.

My current major writing endeavor is Brockhurst, the Downton Abbey-inspired WWI-era larp I'm writing. That will be what I focus most of my energy on over the next month. Means I need to set aside a lot of writing time.

I gave up processed sugar for Lent. I had gotten to the point where my body was craving it, which isn't a good sign, so I thought purging it cold turkey would be a good idea. It's actually been easier than I thought. The only real sugar craving I've had, hilariously, flared up when I was listening to Elementary's Sherlock Holmes talk about addiction.

I am a bit strapped for cash right now. A big heating bill and some unexpected car troubles have been a bit more than I can easily handle, so I will have to be careful for a while.

Think that's everything that's notable and important right now.

There's a certain way, or combination of ways, I prefer to live my life. I do a lot, as my accomplishment charts demonstrate. And I don't even put chores on that, so I do even more than it seems. I care about making sure various aspects of my life happen to a certain standard, both for my own comfort and to make a good impression on others. I like to be involved, accomplished. I like to do interesting, creative things. I like the house clean and presentable to guests. I like to look pretty at all times. I want to keep any commitments that I make, especially to other people. I like to be involved in a wide array of interesting activities.

But like everything in life, there is a cost. The one that always feels highest for me is energy. I feel stressed and blasted on a regular, though admittedly not constant, basis. There's also time, which I never, ever seem to have enough of. And of course money, which, again, isn't constantly at issue, but something that I frequently find myself seriously worrying over. I often feel stretched too thin, and worn out.

I'd love to fix that, but what gives, though? I do these things because I feel better having them in my life. So what can I cut? More often than not, it seems, that I sacrifice seeing friends or having any sort of a social life. Which I handle, I guess, given my introvert nature, but I don't want to lose those relationships with the people who I love and are important to me. But there's just so much I want to, or have to, do. I have to go to my day job, clean the house, cook tasty and inexpensive meals, go to my workout appointments and my ballet class, go to theater rehearsals, serve on the organization of events, choose a nice outfit to wear every morning, work on my various creative projects, writing and otherwise... sometimes I don't understand how other people live. How do they do it all? Or how do they live going without?

You've caught me on a bad week. A bad month, even, given that next week is likely to be pretty bad too. I've been so busy that I'm a stressed and dragging wreck all through everything I have to do in a day until I COLLAPSE into bed at like ten. Everything feels heavier when I'm this tired.

I want to have it all, I guess, and I wish I knew how to do it. The real answer, probably, is compromise, but even that I'm not quite sure how to achieve.

I can't believe how much I have to do right now. Thankfully I'm mostly ready for Intercon (except for rating the last of this year's Iron GM submissions, which I will complete tonight) but I still have a hundred other things. Work and life responsibilities, various commitments, plus GHOSTSHOW is going to be performed on March 8th. I thought I was cutting down on obligations, but it doesn't feel like it right now. I'm actually a bit panicked as to when I'm going to get it all done.

I think what this means is I can't go to Precon on Thursday night. I was excited because this looked like the first year ever I didn't have Friday daytime commitments to prevent me, but I'm just too overwhelmed. I need to spend the time working. I would love to go into Intercon proper with as few weights on my mind as possible. We'll see what we can do.

I've been watching a lot of Elementary recently, which is such a fantastic show I don't even know where to begin talking about how fantastic it is. But beyond its fabulousness, something else jumps out at me. In the show, they portray a Sherlock who turned to drugs to deal with the constant overload of his heightened senses, and is in the process of recovering from the addiction. As such, there's a lot of the systems of handling an addiction on display.

It occurs to me that from the way I structure my life, you'd think I was a recovering addict. I live by rigid routines; everything is scheduled and set down in time. I rely on an accountability system to make sure I do the things I need to do. I avoid certain things completely because I have no ability to moderate my use of them.

I am, as follows, morbidly unspontaneous. Jared used to hate that about me, and complained loudly even as he took advantage of my ways for any semblance of structure in his life. I'm not particularly bothered by this fact about myself, I see no INHERENT advantage in personal spontaneity, although I can certainly see how it would be a good thing in particular situations. It encourages roving afield, getting new and unexpected experiences. Which is admittedly something I don't have a lot of in my life. But my way better facilitates my values-- it ensures I have enough time and motivation to do all the things I want to, from keeping up with chores, to have lots of activities happening, to being productive with my art, to getting dinner on the table before I'm too ravenously hungry. Even to seeing friends, when it occurs to my extreme-introvert self to put down a slot for that.

It means, however, that I'm rendered practically useless when something requires acting without a schedule. I get unreasonably thrown when things come up that I haven't planned for, or make it so I can't follow my plan. Even something small, and that I would actively enjoy doing-- an impromptu dinner with friends, say --makes me feel off-balance. Wait, what are we going to cook? I didn't have a chance to clean! I'm not dressed for company. Part of that is worry what people will think if I don't present myself well, and part of it is my need to be in the right headspace for social. Thanks to introvert nature for that last.

I think it's plain I don't moderate well. When it comes to unhealthy things, I have to either completely abstain or overindulge. Apparently that extends to operating with or without my structure. If I don't have it in perfect place, I struggle to do anything. I find am not only socially ill at ease, I am morbidly unproductive. I'm not exaggerating when I say I get nothing done. And being unproductive is probably the state in which I am least comfortable with myself. It's not usually a problem, but I can't, for example, make Bernie live by the same strictures that I impose on myself if that's not what works for him. But because I'm so inclined to all or nothing, it's hard for me to not set them aside entirely when I'm attempting to compromise. And so I end up unproductive.

In recent years I have resolved not to fight the workings of my brain, and instead just optimize for what works best for it. It's really increased my peace of mind. That means that if I do and feel better with rigid scheduling, that's what I do. But it would be nice to be able to cope a little better when I can't have things all my own way. The world is never exactly as we would wish it, and we need to be able to manage even in less than optimal circumstances.

Today is my first early day of work that wasn't canceled for snow. I prefer the early shift in general, but it will take a bit of adjustment as I haven't had to be in by 8:30 for quite a while. As a morning person, I think ending my workday earlier will make me feel less exhausted by the time I get home, which will enable me to make better use of my evenings. Of course, like an idiot, I forgot my lunch on my way out the door, which is not a great way to begin, but I'll have to get in better habits from here on.

I am making a serious go on the Vivat Regina subplot containing Clara. I'm not a hundred percent sure that it will work, which is making it a bit tough to commit to it. But I'm telling myself that if it doesn't end up improving or fitting within the piece, I can always just go back to the previous draft, so I won't lose anything but the effort. Much as I admittedly hate wasted effort-- likely a holdover from my depressed days when I had to seriously ration my energy --I really do want to give it a try and see if I can make it work.

Also going to have to begin working on the script and lyrics for the new 20s-era musical I'm co-authoring. That presents a really new challenge for me. Poetry is not my forte, and I've certainly never attempted to write it in such as way as it could be set to a song. In some cases my awesome collaborator Troy has already worked out what the music will sound like, and we'll be writing the words with that in mind, but in other cases we've decided it's best to write the words first. I'm excited to try, but also nervous. I want to do well. A piece like this is really made or broken by its songs, and good lyrics will really do a lot to see that the songs are good. I hope I'm up to the task. It's probably going to be a matter of brainstorming, giving it a shot, and then revising endlessly to get it to where it should be. Like any writing task, I suppose. Here goes nothing!

Now that I've finished costuming for Top Girls (leaving only strike at the end of the run), I am glad to have something taken off my plate. I think I will not be making any commitments to any outside activities other than working on GHOSTSHOW for a while. I don't want to be obligated to anything else I have to travel to or show up for at scheduled times so I can spend more long stretches of time writing. Though I've been doing a pretty decent job keeping myself constantly generating work, I have a lot of projects I still want to bring into existence. My current list is as follows:

Adding a subplot to Vivat Regina
The script for the 1920s jazz club speakeasy musical
Her Eternal Majesty's Privy Council game with Alleged Entertainment for Intercon
A new larp of my own
Sundan, my pseudo-Shakespeare play

That's quite a lot. Unfortunately I have a hard time making meaningful progress when writing if I have an hour here or an hour there; instead I need a good long chunk of time to get into a flow before I can really make headway. Having fewer appointments on my schedule will facilitate that. Not the most convenient way to work, but I've found that fighting against my brain wastes much more time than just working with my quirks.

All this past week I've been cooking up all the stuff I've had in my cabinets, fridge, and freezer that I've had laying around unused. This served both to clear out my cupboards as well as stretch my budget to the end of my break period before I go back to my regular day job next week. That plus my various other obligations right now mean my time and mental resources are going to be tight. And how does Phoebe always deal with problems of this nature? WHY, MORE SCHEDULING!

Bernie and I took this opportunity to actually sit down together and make a meal plan for the coming week. I've been talking for YEARS about getting in the habit of making weekly plans like that, going to the grocery store ONCE at the beginning of the week instead of my typical, oh, four or five times for the one or two meals I'm thinking about right that second. I've even prepared for the couple days of week I'll need to use the slow cooker. It will save time, it will save hassle, and I'm hoping it will save money. I'm not sure I have a great frame of reference for what's an efficient amount for two adult to spend on food for a week-- I am good at keeping to a tight budget, but food is my real indulgence --but looking at the receipt, I think I managed to keep things pretty economical for two big eaters like me and Bernie.

I will be so happy if I manage to turn this into a regular thing. I'll save a lot of money and time, two things in short supply for me at this time in my life. I've wanted to do this for years but never actually managed to make it happen before now. I've hoping that by making it a blocked-off part of my calendar it'll be easy to keep up. I'm sure you can tell by now that I'm a very structured person; routine, scheduling, and habit are extremely helpful to my productivity. It's really hard for me to be really productive without it. So here's hoping it serves me in this effort as well.

So my first week of life with my new job went by, and I mostly pulled it off. It was definitely a bit rough, as I had a lot of my freelance duties and other regular commitments to fit in around it, and it meant a hell of a lot of driving and frankly less than an hour of downtime at a stretch on any of the last more days, which is for me the highest-stress state of affairs possible. I think I blew the audition I went to on Wednesday due to sheer exhaustion, which is very frustrating, and I went through a tank of gas at an absolutely shocking rate. But I like the job itself-- I'm doing well at providing the essay-writing support the students need, and since the workload ebbs and flows throughout the day, I had a fair bit of time to work on my own writing and other work. That suits me. Also I'm making more money in less time than I was at my previous steady day job, which alone makes it feel like a step up.

So I am fairly certain it will work okay for me, at least if I make a few life adjustments. Since my hours are 11AM to 6PM, my days are back-loaded rather than front, which is very different for me, so I need to learn to make use of the early hours to manage non-work things. If I continue to get up at 7AM like I usually do, I have a fair bit of time before I have to head over to BHCC. I would like to get back in the habit of going in for a workout first thing in the morning, which would be really healthy for me, especially since I won't be able to go to the Wednesday morning ballet class like I have been. I also think I need to get more into crock pot cookery. With all that time in the morning, I can easily put something into the slower cooker before I have to leave and have it ready for dinner when I come home. I've never done it much before, generally I find things cooked in the oven or on the stove to be superior to crock pot methods, but it would be worth it just to have it all ready to go as soon as I walk in the door. I am a creature of habit and routine in the extreme, so it will take a bit of effort to rearrange my ways, but I think it would serve me well in this case.

Also-- and this is a perennial issue I contend with --it's becoming clear that it's time to reevaluate my commitments. Most of the things I'm doing now are things that are important to me and make me happy, but probably not every little thing. I'm sure I could find something to jettison that I wouldn't miss, that would be one less responsibility on my plate. And maybe don't take on anything new for a while. I've certainly got enough to contend with at the moment, and the feeling of being run ragged is encroaching. I want to enjoy the stuff I do that's supposed to be enrichment to my life, not find it all burdensome.

I have been neglecting my beloved LiveJournal very badly lately. Normally I make a real effort to write at least a little something every week day, but in the last month or so I've been considerably spottier than I like. It's a combination of having been very busy lately, and, I think, a lack of a regular schedule. My work life of late has not been the circumscribed, sedentary period it used to be, and as such I spend considerably less time, and fewer long stretches, in front of a computer. But it's good for my writing and for keeping track of the path of my life to do this. Plus, with working at night more often than not, it's my way of keeping in touch with people. I've not had as much social contact due to having the opposite of most working people's schedules, and this helps keep my friends from forgetting I exist.

At the moment I'm a bit burnt out, which makes it tougher to write. The show I costumed for Zero Point, Tom Sawyer: the Musical, went up this week, and I have spent a lot of time running around getting that finalized for tech. Also the modeling gigs I've been doing have taken me hither and yon. If you tell me I'm going to have five hours of engagement, and you make three of those work and two of those traveling, I am going to be considerably more exhausted than if I'd just done five straight hours of work. But I'm hoping to be a bit more settled this week and recharge. I hope to get myself back into the habit of daily journaling. Also, I got a keyboard for my iPad, allowing it to function more like a laptop. Previously it was practically useless for doing work on, which in my case mostly means writing. Now it's easy to just pop it open wherever I am and bang something out. Maybe I can stay more on top of blogging if I can do it on the go more easily as well.

Merchant of Venice's run has been finished, and I have completed my piece of it as dancer/choreographer, one of the most difficult theatrical challenges I've ever undertaken. It still didn't come out at all how I wanted, but it wasn't going to under the messed-up circumstances, and I guess I made it work satisfactorily. Still, it was high-stress for me, so I'm glad to be finished with it.

Having the several part-time jobs suits me in lots of ways, but in other ways they've been a struggle. I have to travel straight from one to the next fairly often, and having to get from one place to another makes any situation more stressful to me. My schedule's been fairly strange lately, as I have some work-related things to do during the day, but more often lately I've had to be at my obligations at night. It's been a real shift, and makes socializing with most people a lot harder.

This week isn't so bad, it's going to be a nice little break. But the week after I have my final residency for grad school before I graduate. And after that I go into tech for the show I'm doing costumes for, and a major part of that obligation is to run wardrobe at the dress rehearsals and shows. That means that I've crammed a lot of my own stuff that I need to get done in this week and evening commitments in the rare free moments around the show. It's not an ideal schedule, but I'm making it work as best I can.

But hey, if anybody else is flexible during the daytime hours normal people are occupied, I'm probably free.

God. I am tired. Been running around, doing work and chores, doing homework. This is a rough week. Not bad, full of good things in fact, but demanding.

Earlier this week I had my reading of The Triumph of Law on Williamstown, MA public access TV. That went really well. The actors did a very good job with the material, though they took it in a slightly different direction that I imagined. I had thought the educated-lawyer character would be the cooler head while the old-fashioned plantation owner would be more fiery and uncontrolled, but it kind of emerged the other way around-- it seemed more natural that the lawyer, who was in conflict with his son, ended up being more passionate, while the plantation owner, accustomed to always being the master of his domain, would not be so easily roused. Interesting how these things develop in the process! We talked a bit about the process and where it came from in the writing, and even a bit about Mrs. Hawking! I tend to like writing period pieces, so they have some interesting challenges that I found have emerged in my work on them. The only part I didn't like was the driving, about six hours round trip.

Today I went on the BC radio show to talk about some upcoming events at Zero Point. I was a bit nervous, as my boss the artistic director wasn't able to be there at the last minute, and I was a little afraid I wasn't sufficiently familiar with the information. But according to my parents, who tuned in at home, I spoke well and sounded pretty good, like I knew what I was talking about. I just hope I got all the facts right! It's nice, though, to be trusted to represent things even though I've only been with them for a week.

And now I'm going to the last rehearsal for my reading of Mrs. Hawking. We have done every scene, and I'm very happy with them all, but we've yet to do everything in sequence. So we shall hear the whole show together tonight. Plus we'll be adding in the "blocking." If you've ever seen a live presentation of a radio play, and they had the actors in the scene step to the front of the stage while those "offstage" returned to the back, you know what it will look like. I'm confident they will pick things up quickly, they've all done such an excellent job so far. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at 8PM at 6 William Street in Somerville!

Today marks the beginning of one of the busiest weeks I've had in ages. All good things, I'm happy to say, but still, it's going to run me ragged.

Today I drove to the Berkshires to have the rehearsal for my staged reading of The Triumph of Law, my ten-minute play. Tomorrow I will go back in the evening to film the reading itself for presentation on a local public access TV show called PlayCafe. The lady who runs the show was really good to me and found me a great cast, and the rehearsal went really well. I'm looking forward to the recording tomorrow night. The only downside is the driving, which I hate. Williamstown, MA is three hours away by car, and I had to go there and back today, and will have to do it again tomorrow.

Wednesday is our last rehearsal for our staged reading of Mrs. Hawking with Bare Bones. Then on Thursday the 11th we have our real performance, which begins at 8PM at 6 William Street, Unity Church in Somerville, MA. I really hope you can make it, because this is a cool piece that I'm very proud of, and I'm really honored to have this cast and crew representing it. There will be a talkback afterward, for discussion and feedback! Way cool!

Then this weekend is Festival of the Larps, one of my favorite weekends of the year. For the first time ever, I am not playing anything, but I am running lots. Friday night I will be there for The Prince Comes of Age, a wonderful game I loved when I was in the first run. Saturday morning is Agent Bobo of the Resistance, our award-winning Iron GM game, probably unlike anything you've ever played before. Saturday afternoon I'll be assisting natbudin to run A Garden of Forking Paths, another game I had a fantastic time in. And finally, on Sunday I'll be running Break a Leg, my funny short game about the dysfunctional theater troupe.

All good things. Here's hoping I don't collapse.

Today is the first day of my unemployment. Nervous as I am about not having a paycheck for the time being, I certainly don't mind having a little more time and a little less pressure for a while. I am determined to make use of the time to ensure that the other important things in my life get taken care of without being shortchanged or crammed in.

I'm going to set aside a short but regular homework time earlier in the day, when my focus is at its best. After 3PM I tend to have trouble getting my head into work. I'm going to make sure I get some kind of exercise every day, or at least six days a week. I'm going to work on all the projects and skills that are important to me that need practicing, like ballet and sewing. I want to do all the things I haven't gotten around to due to lack of time. It will help keep my morale up while I'm wading through my messy life.

The only thing I'm really bugged about is I have to give my work computer back. I've been relying on it as my primary computing machine since I got this job. I had a big desktop, but my Dad took it home to fix something on it, and once I had the laptop I never bothered to get it back. I'll have to have Dad send it, but I'll miss having something portable I can actually write on. I have the iPad too, but that is much more convenient for play than for work. Ah, well. I'll make it work, like I always do.

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Writing plans for July and August

Almost free but not quite

No commitments but writing for a while

Introvert mode, activate!

Status report

The cost of doing it all

Overwhelmed, no Pre-con for me...

The need for structure

New challenges abound

More time for writing

The habit of planning ahead

New life structure

Poor neglected blog

My weird schedule these days

The things that have tired me out this week

This is the busiest week

A lot more free time on my hands