Ginger's follies, foibles and fixations.
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Saturday, June 28, 2003 Stewing The show in Battery Park went great! Yay! It was warm but not as ungodly hot as it was earlier in the week. Since today was the first Saturday in recent memory to NOT be raining, a lot of kids showed up. I always get caught up in the show (willing, by telepathy, the actors to remember their lines - we had a whopping four rehearsals...but no major glitches) and forget to watch the crowd, but the kids seemed interested enough to stay put, which is saying a lot when it is pretty warm and there's no shade. We were worried about the sound because we didn't have wireless mikes, but that turned out just fine, and basically it couldn't have gone better. I am SO GLAD IT'S OVER. Now I go back to writing grants. A lot. Of grants. Remember when you were a kid and you were going outside, and maybe you didn't want to get sunburned, so you put on SPF 6 or maybe 8 if you were being careful? Today I put on SPF 30 before going out to the park for our show, and I still got burned in a couple of spots. But that's not too bad considering I was in direct sunlight from 10am to 2pm - you know, those hours where the rays are most intense and you're supposed to stay out of the sun? Yeah. Thank goodness one of the actors lent me her sun hat while she was performing. posted by Ginger | 10:17 PM Friday, June 27, 2003 From 146 Reasons Why From Justin to Kelly Sucked: 100. So Luke and Justin decide on some sort of makeshift joust. 101. On hovercraft. 102. No, really. * * * * Not that anyone expected it to be good or anything, but I was sorta hoping for the so-putrid-it's-entertaining sort of thing to give me an excuse to see it. posted by Ginger | 5:38 PM A Sunny Friday Five! 1. How are you planning to spend the summer? Get through this damn show tomorrow in the park; visits to Lincoln, Seattle and maybe Chicago; write a lot of grants. 2. What was your first summer job? It wasn't really a summer job in the strictest sense, since I stayed there for six months, but my first job was counter-person/sandwich-maker at DaVinci's - a local pizza/sandwich place in Lincoln Nebraska. 3. If you could go anywhere this summer, where would you go? Well, if I had a lot of time and money, I'd go all over. I'd spend good chunks of time in Seattle, Lincoln, Chicago, Denver, Maryland and Berlin, visiting friends and family. I'd visit my sister at Yellowstone Park. Then I'd just choose somewhere not too hot and hang out: Northern Europe? Iceland? New Zealand? Oh, and I'd try to catch the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, cuz all the cool people will be there... 4. What was your worst vacation ever? Geez, I don't remember. No vacation can be all bad, can it? I think I must intentionally suppress bad memories, because I can never remember "the worst" of anything. 5. What was your best vacation ever? My six-week solo backpacking trip in Europe (1997) - my first time overseas. I love love LOVE riding trains! I saw wonderful places and met great people (whose names and addresses I lost somewhere in Barcelona) and only had to answer to myself: Rainy in Cinque Terre? Stay until the sun comes out! Creepy stalkers in Toledo? Flee to Madrid! It ended with a week on a secluded beach in Portugal, where I got really hopped up on caffiene and became obsessed with alien abductions. I probably think about some aspect of that trip every day of my life. Two weeks in Hawaii with Michael (1999) is a close second! posted by Ginger | 2:03 PM Thursday, June 26, 2003 This is My Brain. This is My Brain on Silly Internet Quizzes Your Brain Usage Profile Auditory : 58% Visual : 41% Left : 55% Right : 44% Ginger, you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance. You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in. By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do [Omigawd - a disruption! What? Do what, damn you!] The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others. Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory. To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management. It's shocking how accurate this seems to me, and how inordinately proud I am with the results. Unlike the Geek quiz -- 21 percent? I feel like such a poseur... posted by Ginger | 6:20 PM Wednesday, June 25, 2003 21.30178% - Geek posted by Ginger | 1:26 PM Monday, June 23, 2003 Mee-Yow! I'm name-checked on Serious Danger. Seriously. Just below the 'Dangerous 8.' posted by Ginger | 10:15 PM Ow I don't understand Population Tire, but I've already worn out my hand playing it... posted by Ginger | 4:49 PM Mystery Solved Thanks for the well-wishes Eric & Mike. I haven't in fact lost my mind--well, I sort of have, but there's an explanation: it's hormonal! You'd think after two decades of 'womanhood' that I'd get used to these little cyclical freakouts, but I do forget. Until I remember. The elevation of regular everyday problems to end-of-the-world status is typical for me. That doesn't mean that I feel a lot better, but I knowing there's a reason for all this--and that it will pass in a couplea days--makes it much easier to take. Meanwhile, I did get a few hours of sleep, got some bills paid, and hopefully will be able to get a little reading done before I have to head out to class. Taking a 'mental health day' may not solve all your problems, but it can help you get a grip on them... And as a bonus for putting up with my freakout, here's a nice interview with the HomestarRunner gang. Thanks to Eric for the link! posted by Ginger | 3:55 PM Sleepless What is insomnia? I don't think I have it, but I do have periods of sleeplessness. Usually it's more like carelessness -- though tired, I won't go to bed until 3 AM, knowing full well I must get up at 8. I love to sleep, but I hate going to bed. I'm not particularly fond of getting up, either. Tonight I stayed up later than I should, but still I went to bed at a more reasonable time than it could have been - shortly after the last post. Well, then I couldn't sleep. Usually once I cut the lights, hit the pillow, and Stacie curls up beside me, I'm quickly out. But this time I wasn't just restless, I was wide awake. I had a headache. I took Excedrin. Maybe it's the caffiene? My jaw is tight. I have a cold. I am worried about all the stuff I have to do (homework, the week's worth of New York Times that I have to look through, movies unseen, bills unpaid, errands unrun, meals uncooked--not to mention the overwhelming pile of "should have done yesterday" waiting for me at work), I've had little appetite for the last several days. I need to exercise. I want to work on my website. Why can't I figure out how to download Gallery? Should I switch to Moveable Type? I should go to yoga. I need this. I've already decided I'm taking tomorrow off work. It sounds silly, because I'm coming off a 3-day weekend (I work Mon-Thurs), and if I couldn't do what I needed to get done during three days, how will one more day help? I feel guilty. I don't get paid enough to feel guilty. I'll be worthless, grumpy and tired at work, I need to shake this cold. But that's just an excuse, isn't it? I'll feel even worse if I take the day off and don't manage to get anything accomplished. How much could I do in one more day (half a day really, since I have to figure out a way to sleep sometime, and I have class at 6). Will I spend all day watching the Strong Bad Emails I've already seen dozens of times? (check the Strong Bad shout-out in the latest Entertainment Weekly, by the way!) Well, I'm starting to feel drowsy. I should put in the commentary track on Attack of the Clones, that's a good way to get to sleep fast... posted by Ginger | 4:33 AM Fame Okay...this is cool. No questions, just go here. Read the bios because they are funny. Then look at the second photo, the guy with the typewriter. To Zach's left you'll see an IKEA shelf unit with metal sides. That used to be mine! I kept Star Wars toys 'n' stuff on it! I sold it to Zach & Alex when I moved from Seattle. I'm--I mean, my former furniture is--famous! Well, I thought it was cool. Good photos, too. For more on BlöödHag, read the interview. posted by Ginger | 12:49 AM |
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