yesterday i lay like broccoli. it was glorious.

today i worked retail for a few hours. i really want to quit that job but my uncertain future prevents me from waving goodbye to easy money.

i am currently working on scene designs for two shows about ice-fishing. who knew? and one is a musical!

tomorrow i plan to be still like vegetables. i have managed to have the day off, through some divine intervention. two days off in two weeks!!

i had a meeting in chicago for the lighting design project, which happens in september. it's an adaptation of 'ipheginia' which takes place in a 1930's diner in the american west. it's a very intriguing project on several levels. first, the director has encouraged me to get funky with several moments in the play where we aim to take the audience to a different, wierder, place where they will have a "what the hell?" moment. secondly, the play shares the space with another show that plays after us, on the same stage, every night. this means that i have to come up with a plot sort of in conjunction with another designer that i have never met. lastly (for right now) the theater is a storefront that was once a speakeasy during prohibition. there is ornate plasterwork throughout and it's got 24 exits to other fake storefronts and buildings and alleys. also, it's haunted.

tonight i rented cold mountain. i saw it in the theater and was not sure how i felt about it. i think, on the one hand, that it's an interesting story. on the other, i still feel like there could have been less seemingly un-necessary bloodshed. i feel like there's more story there, and so i hope to read the novel - in my copius free time.

i have to get some sleep now - i want to be well rested for the day of continuous loafing i have scheduled for tomorrow.