monoceros blogsIn Apirl, I won a small award for part of a play I wrote. It was a nice thing really, with good money. The only stipulation - on the first day of fall semester, I have to submit 50 more pages and a description of my on-going work on the project.
I wrote approximately 5 pages over the summer and read a couple of books for research, which leaves me with three more days before the deadline to complete the rest of the requirement. I've been working hard the past week on teaching and writing this play. I'm almost there, I think, and I will finish on time.
By Sunday, I should be thoroughly "played" out.
Also, I just noticed that my keyboard, grey in color, has remained fairly clean over the past year. The only strange thing is that the "W" key is slightly stained with dirt. Is "W" a very well-used letter? Or maybe it's because I tend to rest my third finger there when my hands are still on the keyboard. I shall have to play Lady MacBeth and get some cleaning done. Out, damned spot!
Other nonsensical titbits:
1. I've been rising early most mornings and starting my day with a little stretching and several sets of push-ups (men's style, of course!) and sit-ups. This is quite the achievement for me since I'm so out of shape and my stamina is about the level of pancakes.
2. I finally learned that the proper way to launder your clothes is to separate natural fabrics from synthetic ones (mixing causes pilling), and lightweight from the heavier items (like jeans. Never wash too many pairs of jeans in one load, it's bad for the washer), and of course, within each of these categories, colors and whites should be separate. The last one is a given, something I've been tackling since I first began doing my own laundry. But honestly, who has time to do more separations?
3. Enya and Moya (as in Moya Brennan, ex-lead singer of Clannad, the group that sang the theme song for The Last of the Mohicans) are sisters.
Posted by Monoceros at September 4, 2004 2:18 PMoh lady Shakespeare... pray thee can we watch your play someday?
Posted by: tiggie at September 4, 2004 4:05 PMEr...this play won't ever be staged, I'm afraid! I have to confess, my dear tiggie, that I'm doing this for the remuneration.
Posted by: V Heng at September 5, 2004 5:59 PMan idea: we'll do a staging of your play when you come back and set up home. Have a makeshift stage set up in your garden and assign all of us characters. We should do this during next year's Mid-Autumn Festival.
Have our stage lit with lanterns and we'll enjoy drama, song, dance AND food under the moonlight!
Posted by: dsd at September 5, 2004 8:44 PMThe play is boring and melodramatic. i won't waste your time. but i'll think about having a lantern party. =) as long as I don't set fire to my grass! hee hee.
Posted by: monoceros at September 7, 2004 7:45 PM