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Saturday, Jan 24, 2009 5:23AM / Standard Entry
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Since the last time here, I've been hired full-time permanently at Rhode Island Hospital as an administrative assistant to the Director of the Cancer Center. It pays the bills and at least it's in the healthcare world. It's been helpful to see how things work behind the scenes. And I generally like administrative work - it's not challenging enough for my brain, but it'll do for now. I'd like to have a job where I can do administrative work AND use my brain for something interesting like nutrition or food science or movement science. Hmm... one more thing to think about.
So Cabaret came and went. It was a good show and I had a lot of fun playing the part. Check.
Made turkey for Thanksgiving. And turkey congee. Hell yes.
Choreographed and performed in a Christmas Spectacular show in Massachusetts in December. It was the most stressful experience I've had in a long time, but I did manage to meet some cool people in the process. And I was working, which is a good thing.
Took a brief hiatus by visiting my family and some friends in L.A. It was REALLY nice to be back home. It was the first time in a long time that I really felt back at home in L.A., too. The weather was perfect; it had just rained so the skies were clearer and the temp was in the 40s-60s (F). Amazing. Still not the bay area, but dreamy nonetheless as I also had no obligations but to see people.
Speaking of weather (cause it's important in my life), I have been soo digging the snow here! It's beautiful. Snow that makes layers on anything and everything. Real snowflakes! Crisp air!! GORGEOUS trees. The whole place looks so different. Scary icy roads. I totally did a 360 on one of the small, remote highways in the south of Rhode Island one night. I'm very fortunate that there weren't many people around me and that no damage was done to either the car or me. That shook me up a little. Weather averaging in the teens (F). The heater in my apartment works, so I'm nice and warm in my apartment and I have plenty of good clothes to keep me warm when I'm out in the nice crispy, cold air!
Next up: New Plays Festival. I'm participating, as an actor, in Brown's New Plays Festival this February. The play is called "Exquisite Corpse" by Mia Chung and it plays Feb 11-15. It is largely about immigration. Really interesting. It's great to be working with the Brown MFA students as well.
In March, I will be playing Christine in the musical version of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". This production is at the same theater that "Cabaret" performed in. It's performing the last three weekends in March.
I will also be narrating an audiobook in February. (!!!) I have yet to receive details for it. All I really know at this point is that it is a murder mystery set in Beijing. Will update when I get more details. I'm thrilled to be doing voicework in the U.S.!!
That's all that's really set for now. It seems that people like planning for the summertime sooner when they have long winters. I'm surrounded by people that have been making plans for the summer for a while now. So it's something that's on my mind, too.
Trying to work out how I might be able to come to HK for a couple months if I don't continue to work here at the hospital. Anybody have any work for June/July/August? I'd love to perform in any shows, do any office work, teach yoga/dance, put together a show, etc. If work looks possible, there is a STRONG chance I will come back for a little while.
I'll take either June or August to be in Thailand and get certified to pratice Thai yoga massage. If this all doesn't work out, I may be able to push it to the fall... or winter. But I want to make it happen at some point.
In other words, my time in Providence probably won't last for much longer (barring an outrageous and wonderful opportunity that shows itself). The longest time would be until next September but I don't really see that happening. Trying to consider what might be the next place. So far, signs seem to be pointing to NYC. Of course there's also Chicago, SF, Toronto, Rio, Buenos Aires, Melbourne.... Ahh!! What's next?!
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