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Apr. 10th, 2003 01:09 amReally good show tonight, although I'm hardly in peak condition myself. Just let things get to me and get away from me in ways I shouldn't all day. But I have to let it go now. I'm a first time stage manager on a challenging show that's faced a lot of unique issues along the way. And I'm doing _well_. And I need to accept that I've got a long, long way to go in absolutely everything that matters to me about the arts. And that's okay.
Soren and Velma came to the show tonight, and enjoyed it, so that was excellent and we grabbed dinner afterwords, which was lovely other than the herds of rats we saw as we walked towards the subway. I've _never_ seen so many rats in NYC -- it was swarms of them on 1st street, hiding in and around _everything_ -- it was worse than DC and DC has serious, serious rats.
Tomorrow I've another A&G rehearsal, and I've got to pick up a play before then and then it's back in the theater for the evening. The plan that I'm going for is up at 7am, exercise (outside -- a loop through the LES or Soho in all probability), breakfast, writing, and then out into the world by 10am. This is an entirely new plan, in that I'm not at all a morning person, but I know how productive I am in the mornings when I actually witness them, so this is a slow start to something I'm seriously interested in achieving, which is having hours to do work that matters during times of the day when there aren't any distractions available to me. I don't know if I'll be able to achieve it, but I know that I'll be incredibly proud of myself if I can -- certainly, it will take some time.
I am, for the first time, trying to find, not a balance, but a union between my ascetic and indulgence-prone tendencies. Discipline as an enabler of work, is also an enabler of celebration. So, we'll see.
Soren and Velma came to the show tonight, and enjoyed it, so that was excellent and we grabbed dinner afterwords, which was lovely other than the herds of rats we saw as we walked towards the subway. I've _never_ seen so many rats in NYC -- it was swarms of them on 1st street, hiding in and around _everything_ -- it was worse than DC and DC has serious, serious rats.
Tomorrow I've another A&G rehearsal, and I've got to pick up a play before then and then it's back in the theater for the evening. The plan that I'm going for is up at 7am, exercise (outside -- a loop through the LES or Soho in all probability), breakfast, writing, and then out into the world by 10am. This is an entirely new plan, in that I'm not at all a morning person, but I know how productive I am in the mornings when I actually witness them, so this is a slow start to something I'm seriously interested in achieving, which is having hours to do work that matters during times of the day when there aren't any distractions available to me. I don't know if I'll be able to achieve it, but I know that I'll be incredibly proud of myself if I can -- certainly, it will take some time.
I am, for the first time, trying to find, not a balance, but a union between my ascetic and indulgence-prone tendencies. Discipline as an enabler of work, is also an enabler of celebration. So, we'll see.
