More catchup!
Thursday consisted of an early morning doctor’s consultation and appointment for Ted and I at the Passport Health Travel Clinic to get ourselves a Typhoid immunization and learn up on some details for travel to our country of destination (more on this later). A post-work rehearsal Thursday afternoon and book club for March by Geraldine Brooks kept me busy in the evening. I’ve said this a thousand times and I’ll say it a thousand more…our book club is the best! We always have such a great time together…and such great food! Next month we’ll be meeting for a backyard picnic/BBQ and our next book, The Fault in our Stars. I’ve been anxious to read this book for a long while now, and I’m pretty pumped about our upcoming social soirees too.
Friday brought a 15-hour workday and our biggest theatre fundraising event of the year – a big old fancy party/feast/performance/auction and paddle call that raised us over $160,000 for our education programs! So awesome! Not bad for a day’s work (except this takes an entire year to plan for, of course). If that’s the outcome, I’m perfectly happy to put on a fancy dress, a pair of heels, and red lipstick to schmooze our guests with offerings of wine and the lovely voices of last year’s Summer Academy students and to help out with paddle spotting. It was an absolutely exhausting day, but well worth it. And we basically ate like kings all day. Work hard, play hard. And support the future of live theatre!
Saturday, post-event, I had the energy to haul my only-mildly-awake butt to the market at 7:45 a.m. to buy 15 lbs. of rhubarb (ahhhh, June in NY), carry on an intelligent global conversation with a wonderful Iranian couple we met and shared breakfast with at the market (the only coherent discussion I’ve had all day, I can assure you – but it was so great!), take 2 naps, eat a coconut almond crunch ice cream cone, make a watermelon margarita, and stay awake long enough to watch the Belmont Stakes race at 6:52 p.m, and fall asleep soaking in a bubble bath. And that’s pretty much all I could offer the world. A day of rest was so needed!
Sunday, we did our couponing and coupon shopping, and I did some packing and organizing for Texas….and I watched this awesome and wonderful and adorable and funny video. Tuesday I worked from home because the HVAC in most of our theatre building is being replaced, so our office was in a pretty wild state of demolition and construction (in addition to being scatching hot). I had a hugely productive day though, and on Wednesday the portable AC arrived for our office, which is making a world of difference! Tuesday night I immediately and permanently filed making homemade concord grape pie filling at 9 o’clock at night under the “guess I won’t be doing THAT again anytime soon” category. For future reference, there is a reason why grape pies are expensive, and there is a reason why you should pay someone else handsomely to make them for you. Seeding cooked grapes is strenuous, mind-numbing, takes 9 bazillion hours, and stains your hands a bold shade of shocking purple for all of eternity. Lesson learned.
For the next few days, I am – quite happily – in Texas visiting my family, my friends, and my cat. My 10-year high school reunion is tomorrow and I’m totally looking forward to it! Unfortunately, this little journey to the Lone Star State is sans Ted, but that’s the way life goes sometimes.
I’ll be back soon with some joyful Texas updates…I hope!
Meanwhile, stay cool :)
