Interesting Times

[draft discovered in this state on my phone, not sure of date written]

I’ve noticed that I never pick posts up when I say I will later. I don’t know if I ever really intend to, or whether it’s just a convenient way to stop writing without coming up with a proper ending.

Watched “Escape From New York” with Greg and Walsh tonight, which brought back memories of watching terrible movies at friends’ houses ten years ago. What’s remarkable is that the houses have changed, but the friends haven’t (and neither have the movies).

Just got on the train, and am being forced to listen to a drunk girl sing a song I don’t recognize to her equally drunk friends. They are also claiming they are a basketball team raising money for their basketball team (yeah, I know, that’s what I said) by selling candy bars which they don’t have but will bring with them tomorrow night.

[end of draft]

I’ve really picked two awesome days to forget my water bottle at home. Vancouver blogs and photos have been delayed by life, school and work, though not in that order, and definitely more work and school than life.

Travel plans are happening, sort of. Summer is finally here, and there isn’t very much of it. I still haven’t registered for classes, though that has more to do with my switching degrees than my lack of planning. I had a plan for a BA, but the BFA program is different enough that I need to look hard at the schedule of classes again. And soon.

Phish may be happening Friday night, which requires a lot more and a lot less planning than I’m used to.

Meeting time… More later.

I’m currently writing this on a train heading to Brooklyn, on my way back from meeting my father in the city to pick up my newly-minted passport, which I need for my trip to Vancouver on Tuesday, but first I need to get to Mill Basin by 3pm today for dinner, wearing the navy blue H&M button shirt I was told to wear, told to wear partly to ease my anxiety about making sure I was dressed appropriately and partly to get me to shut up about my anxiety, especially since the dinner is with a bunch of people I already know and who like me and I have no reason to worry, but since I’ve been so busy I haven’t had any time to take care of so many things until the last minute, my taxes for example, I didn’t file until Friday, which is unlike me since I always file early so I can get my refund faster, especially since I could use that money for my trip to Canada.

I’ve been incredibly busy for the past however many weeks with work and life and people, though if you ask the people in my life they’ll tell you I was mostly working. On what, you ask? Well, I was assisting my good friend Hae-Jin on her lighting design for The Violet Hour, then was offered a co-design assignment for the lights on Julius Caesar, which is the following show.

As we head into spring break, we’ve finished about two-thirds of the focus, with another whole focus day when we get back, and I feel really good about the whole process so far. Rehearsals have been fun to watch, working with Will, the director, has been smooth and interesting, and the whole team feels really energized for the project.

If you’ve been keeping score at home, which I know you have been, you’ll know that this is my first proper design at school, and really my first proper design anywhere. I reworked Nancy’s design for pre-thesis two years ago (which I assisted her on) for the extra-short play festival Gone in 60 Seconds, and I did lights on the undergraduate production last year, Ti-Jean and his Brothers, but neither of those really felt like a real lighting design, one being based largely on someone else’s work, and the other being largely functional lighting based on group work and class consensus, rather than a true lighting design.

It’s a great honor for an undergrad to receive a design assignment, especially since the program largely exists to support the graduate program and their designers and directors. In fact the last undergraduate lighting designer was my good friend Tsubasa, and that was several years ago.

Transfer time. Back in a few once I get on the bus.

Tap here to begin writing.

Goddammit.

Long story short:

I spent over an hour on the train writing a post about art, creativity, and the difference in perspectives between ‘creative’ theater people (designer-types) and ‘non-creative’ theater people (labor-types).

WordPress for the iPhone seemed to interpret my pressing the ‘save’ button as a signal that I wanted it to delete all traces of that post.

I tried writing the post again, in a truncated form, partly because I had lost the narrative flow, and partly because I suspected that when I pressed ‘save’ after I finished this second post, it would eat it as well.

It did.

I tried writing a post that contained simply the words ‘fuck WordPress’, and tried both the ‘done’ button, and the ‘save’ button.

Nope. Gone.

And so I abandoned my short-lived attempt to begin writing on my blog again.

Until a WordPress update arrived, claiming to improve handling of saving drafts.

So I decided to test this out, by writing this post on my iPhone, and trying to post it to my blog.

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Uh, no.

I did make it a point to copy the text out, and send it to myself in an email, so all is not lost. And I was able to publish a post directly, without saving it as a draft first. But that somewhat diminishes the point of having an app that lets me write a post anywhere, even when I don’t have data service, don’t you think?

So in conclusion, don’t expect to see much more up here any time soon, at least, not from me on the road.

And also fuck WordPress.