And that means: allergy season. I suffered greatly about a month ago; there was some uncommonly warm weather, and whatever it did, something was released into the atmosphere which just wrecked me. And I mean wrecked! Puffy eyes, drippy nose, the whole kaboodle (which, by the way, is an awesome word). As I recall, the initial 'hit' was on a Thursday and started off with some sneezing. It got worse on Friday and then, my whole weekend was predominantly spent in bed trying to wheeze in enough oxygen. Fortunately, there's been enough rain recently to drive all those annoying, floating contagions to the ground. Granted, that makes for a soggy walk to work and occasionally wet socks, but I think the mild dampness is an easy trade-off for the misery that is allergies.
In other news, I'm ridiculously busy at work. The thing is, I don't know if I'm ridiculously busy because of all the work that's being shoveled onto my 'plate' or if I'm ridiculously busy because I'm just ridiculously incompetent. (I hope it's the first one!) Either way, ridiculous + busy = stress! And, I don't like it.
On the improv front, I'm enjoying these classes I'm taking from Washington Improv Theater (W.I.T.). It's a tad expensive and a fairly good distance away (about an hour between driving to the station, grabbing the metro and walking the final two blocks), but overall, a lot of fun. Just a few more sessions of this one then off to the next in the series. I don't even know when the next session begins! I'll have to remember to ask the instructor.
Speaking of improv things, some Comedy Spot folks and I began a D&D game (yes, that's right, D&D, suck it!) and while we were chatting, we started discussing an improv show that would essentially be a D&D-type game, but have short form improv games in it that would advance the story. So, it's really a long-form improv set (i.e. the characters stay the same) but since were mostly short form people we've tweaked the games we know to make them fit into the gimmick we're creating. Wow, that was a lot harder to explain than I thought it would be. I must have retyped that about ten times. Anyway, we've been holding practices and each time one ends, I leave thinking "We might have something here." Our first outing is tentatively scheduled for the end of June. We want to add other genres, but for now we're sticking to the tried and true fantasy/D&D type setting. I think SciFi (for Star Wars and Star Trek) and Super Heroes (for Heroes and Comic Books) have the best chance to get in the mix, but we'll see. We may crash and burn on day one and decide to fold. It's fun now though!
XV: 2009 and the Winter that Wasn't
What a Winter! Nary a dollop of snow all season long, and here it is February 27th already, wow!
I think we had two or three days where it snowed, and I'm using 'snowed' in the minimalist sense of the word. Cumulatively, there probably wasn't more than three inches all Winter, and most of that was one 'big' snowfall of about an inch and a half. Not one day of closing, not one day of late arrival, and only one day of emergency leave allowed. (That may not be the correct term, but what I mean is you could take the day off using leave without having gotten permission in advance, ooo, ahhh! Yeah, that's what I though, too.)
The New Year came in with a piss-poor attitude, and I was its bitch. Right after midnight, I got a big nasty splinter in the heel of my foot; fortunately, things have improved since then. I started a class in improv (another class); this one is put on by the folks from Washington Improv Theater (W.I.T.). They generally do long form improv and not necessarily comedic. I wanted to see what they were about so I signed up for their first class (of six or seven) to give them a try. The instructor is quite sweet (and a Ph.D. in linguistics, too!), and I'm having a good time there.
My current schedule is very full, which is nice, but I'm suffering from lack of sleep some days. Usually, I'm out six out of seven nights and then I try to catch up on all my housework-type stuff in one evening which is just fruitless. Consequently, my carpet really needs vacuuming!
Peace out y'all!
I think we had two or three days where it snowed, and I'm using 'snowed' in the minimalist sense of the word. Cumulatively, there probably wasn't more than three inches all Winter, and most of that was one 'big' snowfall of about an inch and a half. Not one day of closing, not one day of late arrival, and only one day of emergency leave allowed. (That may not be the correct term, but what I mean is you could take the day off using leave without having gotten permission in advance, ooo, ahhh! Yeah, that's what I though, too.)
The New Year came in with a piss-poor attitude, and I was its bitch. Right after midnight, I got a big nasty splinter in the heel of my foot; fortunately, things have improved since then. I started a class in improv (another class); this one is put on by the folks from Washington Improv Theater (W.I.T.). They generally do long form improv and not necessarily comedic. I wanted to see what they were about so I signed up for their first class (of six or seven) to give them a try. The instructor is quite sweet (and a Ph.D. in linguistics, too!), and I'm having a good time there.
My current schedule is very full, which is nice, but I'm suffering from lack of sleep some days. Usually, I'm out six out of seven nights and then I try to catch up on all my housework-type stuff in one evening which is just fruitless. Consequently, my carpet really needs vacuuming!
Peace out y'all!
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