I'm a terrible blogger. It's funny how life can get away from you so quickly, but alas it does and then seven months go by like the blink of an eye.
As I compartmentalize my life, so I shall do the same with my entry. Sometimes I look at the parts of my day and think that I must be crazy and then I realize -duh- I am crazy.
1. The last entry I made (in June, embarrassing) was about my new job at the bookstore. I started as a general bookseller and specialized in Nook sales and support and each day was an education. Everyone should work retail at some point in their life. It's illuminating to say the least. Thank goodness I started in the summer, because if I had been hired in October or later, I never would have been able to survive the holidays. Pure insanity, and I didn't even have to work on Black Friday. Miraculously, the holidays ended (but the world didn't) and once again we are back to a normal amount of business. At the beginning of the year, I switched departments within the store and and became a Shelver. Now, I show up at work at 7 am (a bloody miracle) and shelve books for a few hours.
2. When I started at the bookstore I was working at a local church as a lighting designer and I had just been admitted to MU's grad school. The church lighting work had to be put on the back burner as I attempted to be a successful graduate student. Looking back on it, I think the best term for my stint at MU is an "educational detour." There's nothing wrong with grad school (in theory), but my personal experience reads like something out of a horror story. I was taking two classes and stage managing one show in the fall semester and was doing great balancing everything, but it just wasn't right. I was admitted as a post-baccalaureate non-degree seeking student and intended to submit my application to the department at the end of the fall semester, but couldn't bring myself to do it when the time came. I will definitely pursue graduate school later in life, but not at MU. If you're considering going to school there, don't ask for my recommendation, 'cause you won't like what I have to say. Basically, I paid a ton of money to SM a show and all I got was a glass unicorn.
3. I "started" my own business. I've been a pet sitter in Columbia for years, but I thought I'd better make it more official. My schedule was full of sitting appointments, so I made a website and all that jazz. It's a pretty steady line of work and perfect as a supplement to all of my other activities/jobs.
4. In September, I moved in with my brother. It's surprisingly awesome. We get along really well and after the initial adjustment period, we are in a good rhythm with each other. He's teaching me how to be more domestic and imparting his wisdom about loading the dishwasher and baking leftover pizza. It's a lot of fun and conveniently only three minutes from work.
5. Right before the end of the year, I got a call from the production manager/artistic director of a local theater company asking if I would like to stage manage an upcoming musical and of course I said YES!
Turn the corner to the beginning of this year. 2013: No longer in grad school (that was a bust). Working at the bookstore and looking for another theater job out of state. Pet sitting all over town.
6. That SM job from #5 has begun and I'm having a blast. It's Terrence McNally's A Man of No Importance which opens February 21 and will be followed by rep performances of two other shows that I've also signed on to SM (Personals and Singlemarriedgirl). That get's me through March and after that I'll really be itching to get out of Dodge for awhile.
7. I'm still dealing with residual classwork from my foray into grad school, but at the end of the month I'm finished with that business and can hopefully erase it from my memory.
8. That church I was working for? Well, my cousin is getting married there in March and I'm hoping to help out with the lights for the ceremony and then get back into designing lights for their services regularly. It was such a cool job with a great group of people, and now that my bookstore schedule is set, I can finally plan some sort of social life (as long as it's before 9 pm- my new bedtime).
9. Yesterday, my dad had bilateral knee replacement. His knees had been bothering him for years and it finally got so bad that he agreed to have them replaced. Waiting for the surgery was torture and today was a VERY long day, but he survived the surgery and the doctor said it went very well, so now we are at the beginning of what is sure to be an arduous recovery process. In the end, it will all be worth it and I'm glad that we've made it over the first hump. He had a ton of visitors today and it's great to see how much his friends and co-workers love him. Hopefully, being surrounded by so many people who care is going to make this process so much easier for him. Tomorrow, he takes his first steps as the bionic man. He's expected to go home on Saturday and then has six weeks of recovery and physical therapy to look forward to.
10. I need a tenth thing to talk about because I can't just leave it at nine, but what? Oh, how about this? We got a cat. Her name is Fiona and she's a former farm cat from my parent's house. She was getting picked on by our other outdoor cats, so we brought her to town and now she's the queen of her domain. It was a bit of an adjustment for her to switch gears as an entirely indoor cat. On her first day she peed on my bed (she's lucky she survived that ordeal). Now she's very politely using her litter box and she's spoiled rotten.
Phew, made it to 10.
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