Resurfacing

Well, these last two weeks have been a rather unintentional mini-hiatus — I suppose I just wasn’t quite as on-the-ball as I should have been about getting entries ready for what I knew would be a busy few weeks!

Busy it was, let me tell you. Last Monday was the Mayor’s Evening for Business and the Arts, the big project that I’ve been working on all summer at my internship. Tuesday was my last day at CADA, tying up loose ends, going for lunch with everyone from the office, and ending the day with a production meeting for FAC’s Christmas production, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which I’m working on (from a distance) as the consulting producer.

Wednesday morning, Colin and I left for California, spending all of Wednesday and Thursday on the road, and arriving in Santa Clarita on Thursday evening. He was here until yesterday afternoon, and then flew back to Calgary in time to direct the choir this morning, and given that I won’t see him again until the week before Christmas, I wasn’t about to spend my weekend blogging!

I’ve been unpacking and getting settled in for these last few months — I’m not in the apartment I’ve lived in for the past two years; instead, I’m renting a room in a house. Cheaper rent, closer to school. I wouldn’t have wanted to do it for my entire time in school, but for a couple of months, it’s fine.

Classes technically started 2 weeks ago, but I’m starting tomorrow — not that I’m actually taking that many classes. Most of my semester’s work is thesis and production work, with a couple of classes just so I don’t feel like I’ve got nothing to do. Heh. “Nothing to do.” That’s a good one. I start work in CalArts’ Public Affairs office (where I’ve worked since the second semester of my first year, and I really love the job) on Tuesday, and I’m back at Starbucks next week. Choir started a few weeks ago, and I’ll be back at rehearsal this Wednesday; rehearsals for the show that I’m producing at school start on Monday; and I have a list of little odds and ends that I’ve been picking away at for ages. Nothing pressing; just little busywork jobs like archiving PDFs of all my blogs since 2001. Y’know — stuff.

In any case, I haven’t fallen off the edge of the earth; I’ve just wandered a lot closer to the edge of the continent.

Now. Let’s do a semester, shall we?