the long time coming blog -
hey there, patient readers. I have obviously fallen off the blog-wagon lately due to work travel, long days and little sleep and generally being offline (which probably disagrees with my nature more than any of the others) and have some major catching up to do. Thankfully, very little of the last several days have been "interesting" so that'll save on some time and pixels.
Now where was I....
Right, I was on the road.
I made the trip from Orlando to Atlanta very very early in the morning and in pain thanks to my back going out during the frantic load-out and arrived at my hotel wincing and limping through the valet station populated by a Rolls Royce and a Lamborghini. Oh, it's one of those venues. Ah yes.
All that means to me is a really comfortable bed (which it was, and just what I needed), really decent coffee (also, just what I needed) and a really helpful house staff, all of which made the whole thing much easier.
Before all that I did get a rare chance to get out and perform while on the road, I was in touch with J* from the Basement Theater, who was awesome enough to agree to have me as a guest performer Saturday night since my worky-work didn't begin until Sunday at noon. Then he apparently had a bike accident that screwed his back up and I went from 'guest performer' to being in most of the shows that evening. Super fun and pretty trusting.
I neglected to mention on the phone that my back was also completely wrenched out, we were quite a pair.
The shows were super fun, starting with a set called "Echo", which was a lot like "I, Diego" and is based around some weird Meisner-ish thing of repeating a line back and forth or some actor-y bullshit like that. Good thing I lack actual theater training and could just have fun with it. Actually it was a lot like what Resist Butch! used to do, minus the punk rock and screaming. The set was really cool and the combination of playing with someone I'd never worked with before and a form that was outside my normal habits had me doing things I was a little surprised by and we actually had a great set, in my opinion. We got some laughs from the small crowd and some "awwwwww..."s, which make me even happier than the laughs.
Took part in a couple other structures over the course of the night that were all new to me (and apparently them as well, so it was a freaky night) and overall had a fantastic time and it was a much-needed break in the work travel, ballroom, airport, taxi, ballroom, hotel room cycle.
The rest of the trip was all business, all the time. Early to start and late to turn in - we kicked ass and ended up loading the truck up until the minute we turned and walked out to our ride to the airport for the flight home.
That's the scoop, patient readers, and I hope it was worth the wait.
Speaking of being worth the wait - I'm totally back at Creature Feature and the IAGG this weekend!! Sweet Zombie Jesus I've been missing everyone in Improv-World (where nothing could possibly go wrong....) and looking forward to seeing people in person instead of random emails and facebook status updates. I have been removed from the real world for quite a while.
the Actual Theater project is up and lumbering forward again - Jill and I met yesterday for the next steps in the plan of attack and things are getting exciting now. I have to sit down and send out more than a couple 'now is the time' emails that I'm looking forward to. Not only is it very close but it seems more possible than ever.
Is there more? I'm sure there is.
I'm off work the next couple days and over the weekend trying hard to catch up on the many things I've had up in the air since late August and promised people I would see to as soon as October rolled around, spend time with the family (trying super hard to relax is such a strange idea but that's what it is) before the next work trip, get TCIF 2009 submission info up so we can open the submission process next week and I'm sure there's some I'm forgetting.
the most important thing to me is that I'm back.
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