We're heading over to Elsie's in NE for the evening if anyone out there is interested in meeting up.

Thia past spring I was hired as the production manager for the Continental Ballet Company, a very part time position especially during the summer. I spent most of last week working on their annual recital. The main challenge was coming up with lighting that would give me enough options for 16 different pieces knowing that I would pretty much be doing all of the hanging, focusing, and programming by myself and only be getting paid for one setup day. I think I pulled it off by only moving a couple of lights, and just getting creative in refocusing and coloring what was already there into some decent zone coverage. The company's "home" is the Bloomington Arts Center, and they have a pretty nice little theatre, aside from the strange choice for decorative house lights that dangle in the path of the stage instruments.

Doing the lighting got me feeling a bit nostalgic. I'd kind of forgotten that I enjoy doing lighting design, and sound design for that matter. I'm looking at shipping my resume out to a few of the small theatres around the cities that are looking for designers. Unfortunately I don't think they pay very much so I continue on the hunt for real full time employment. Still, once I find something I kind of hope that the schedule allows me the chance to design a few shows here and there. This fall I will probably have to be pulling off some sort of on the fly stuff when CBC take their Cinderella production on the road, but I'm looking forward to designing the lighting for their Nutcracker this winter. I only hope that I can get a separate stipend as lighting designer so I can feel okay about giving the production the time I'd like to.

Anyway, if anyone out there knows of any good light or sound design opportunities please feel free to forward them my way.

I believe that I am scheduled for the single longest job interview of my life this Monday.

Does anyone know if there are any major or semi-major book publishers based in or near the Twin Cities?

I spent a couple hours over at Heart of the Beast working on the masks for our May Day parade costumes. When it came time to lean up and head out I ended up grabbing everything up into my car and have since spent another couple hours on them here at home. I am so sick of papier-mache at the moment. Still I have my mask done, all but for some detail work and a strap. Nessa's is all done with the paper and pasty mess too other than covering the edges after it is cut into shape. I'm looking forward to marching in the parade for once instead of just watching it.

Also while I was off Ness and her Grandmother scored a big comfy chair for our living room. So in the short interim between mask making at HoBt and mask making at home I got to cart it in from the grandparents' mini-van just in time for the kitties to adopt it as their own.

Tonight we're are meeting up with some friends for the Dykes Do Drag performance at the BLB.

I haven't written anything on here in ages it seems. I added a couple of feeds to my friends page that just started burying everybody and eventually I just started checking less and less. Facebook is all well and good, but it definitely doesn't serve the same purpose as LJ. I've done some cleaning up of my friends list to get things back to normal.

• 06:35 just watched Punxsutawney Phil predict 6 more weeks of winter, though he was mighty cute in doing so #

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• 08:41 The sundogs are out #
• 09:50 @joneszen Well it certainly wasn't Mister Heat Miser #

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• 17:29 @sevenian Yay! #

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• 09:30 Feels like spring #

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