This’ll be quick because it’s late and I’m tired. I’ve been helping out with ushering and the box office/concessions booth for New Play Project’s production of Swallow the Sun. You know, box office is a lot of fun. And I didn’t even expect to like it as much as I do. :)
During the show I man both the box office and concession booth, which basically means two hours of dead time because everyone’s up watching the show. And so I’ve been working on some plays to submit to the next New Play Project festival, “Long Ago and Far Away.” As I’m wont to do, in fact, I’ve gone a bit overboard and have seven plays that I plan to finish and submit by the deadline (June 3). Yeah, I should probably just focus on three or so and make them really good, but almost all of the seven ideas are compelling and I really want to see them come to life. So we’ll see. Time constraints will end up affecting how many actually get written, of course. :)
And finally, I’ve been slowly working on redesigning the New Play Project website using MODx, but I realized tonight that I really ought to just switch over to WordPress. I’ve got far more experience with WordPress, it’s a more popular platform, and it’s focused on blogging which is just what we need. (With MODx I would have had to write my own blogging system. Reinventing the wheel. Pointless.) I need to get approval on switching to WP 2.5, but I’m pretty sure that won’t be a problem.
In other news, I’m juggling a handful of small freelance design projects (book covers and brochures and such), reading the first book of the Bartimaeus trilogy (loving it, too), and consistently getting to bed later than I’d like. :)
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