the home stretch

show #1 is open - i await my paycheck with which i think i may purchase a wide angle lens for my camera so i can take full-stage shots at work.

show #2 is tantalizingly close to finished. we cut a bunch of scenery over tech weekend. we felt it was starting to diminish the effect we were going for so we scrapped it, making us even closer to being finished than i had initially anticipated. woo!

i still have hives, though they appear to be subsiding. i've decided recently that they are most likely a product of stress more than new deodorant, although that probably didn't help. nonetheless, i threw out the almost new stick of secret... i was a little sad. i fucking hate hives - the are an instrument of the deveeeeel.

this coming week i am going on vacation - in my house. i don't want to talk to anyone, help anyone, decide anything, go anywhere, be depended upon for anything. i need to take back my life, and spend some quality time coralling all my ducks back into a row. they have gone astray, those poor, poor ducks. i need to pay bills, clean my house, do laundry, play with my cat, clean my car, and watch copius amounts of rental dvd's.

speaking of rental dvd's, i recently rented starsky and hutch and girl with a pearl earring. i enjoyed them both. i think owen wilson and ben stiller together are just generally funny. s&h was a silly movie, that i didn't have to think about, that made me laugh. i don't think i'll own it, but it was $4 i didn't mind having spent. i especially enjoyed girl...earring. i found it very intriguing and was sad i didn't get a chance to watch it again before i had to take it back.. i may own that one someday. there is a great 'anatomy of a scene' special feature that encompasses not only actor stuff but has a great piece on the production design aspects, and that's always a thumbs up in my book. i feel i may rent it again down the line to see if i can pinpoint what makes it so interesting.

and.... scene.