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Been a while.
Oct. 13th, 2010 08:52 pmI've basically been having trouble balancing life again.
I want to spend time on Livejournal, but also would like to spend time getting to know all of the new people I work with and make some real life friends. Thus, I lapse on this journal and pretty much everything else I do on the internet.
Until nights like tonight where I have nothing to do and turn back to my internet addiction. Though, I figure if I only come on occasionally it won't be as much of an addiction as it used to be.
Work is going interesting. Everyone from the summer has left, so now there's only 5 of us in the shop constantly, with students every so often. We have 2 amazing students right now and I'm really loving working with them. They make it so much fun and we have a great time. Hopefully the next students we get (they're on a show-by-show rotation) are as awesome.
We're pretty much done building Peter Pan and are currently loading it in to the space this week. So I've been doing a ton of running up and down stairs and ladders to catwalks and such, which has been a great workout.
Speaking of workouts, I've started up a running regimen with a couple other interns. "Couch to 5K" it's called and I'm really enjoying it. I'm determined to lose weight (though don't look at my eating habits... still working on that) but I have been riding my bike to work too, so I'm much more active than I previously was which I feel good about.
The other change in the past couple months would be my new-found obsession with Doctor Who. I finally got around to watching them (I've had the whole New!Who series on my computer for months previous) and absolutely. am. ADDICTED. Since then, I've watched all of Torchwood as well and am still trying to decide on the Sarah Jane Adventures.
But yes, expect much Doctor Who-ness from me for the future.
I've even bought and read Russell T. Davies' book "The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter" which was an amazing read. It's inspired me to start writing again, too. We'll see if I post anything though. I may just keep it all to myself since I'm doing what I always do- implanting a character that is essentially myself into characters I love. Since it's just me writing for myself, I may as well write what I want. Plus I'm just happy to be writing again. This way I don't have to worry about making voices accurate or any of those other worries that create insecurities and cause me to just shut down. I'm looking at it more as a writing exercise than anything, and I'm just happy to be back at it.
The only other thing I can think about is the fact that I'm in the tentative stages about looking into possibly moving to the UK. I've wanted to live there since I was 9 and I figure, why not now? I don't have any close attachments to the US other than my mother and I'd come home to visit, plus I'm already in California which seems just as far away as anywhere else. I also am in the early stages of my career and figure that getting some experience working in another country would make me more marketable on the whole.
I dunno. It's a pipe-dream right now, but I'm honestly looking into it. I've looked into the things I have to do to bring my cats with me, as well as a couple webpages talking about immigration, and I'm about to apply for a new passport. The only big problem I'm seeing is the job issue... I need six months notice before I move and that's quite a chunk of time for theatres. My experience has been that no one starts looking for a new crew until about 3 or 4 months before they need it. That said, maybe they do it differently in the UK? We'll see.
I want to spend time on Livejournal, but also would like to spend time getting to know all of the new people I work with and make some real life friends. Thus, I lapse on this journal and pretty much everything else I do on the internet.
Until nights like tonight where I have nothing to do and turn back to my internet addiction. Though, I figure if I only come on occasionally it won't be as much of an addiction as it used to be.
Work is going interesting. Everyone from the summer has left, so now there's only 5 of us in the shop constantly, with students every so often. We have 2 amazing students right now and I'm really loving working with them. They make it so much fun and we have a great time. Hopefully the next students we get (they're on a show-by-show rotation) are as awesome.
We're pretty much done building Peter Pan and are currently loading it in to the space this week. So I've been doing a ton of running up and down stairs and ladders to catwalks and such, which has been a great workout.
Speaking of workouts, I've started up a running regimen with a couple other interns. "Couch to 5K" it's called and I'm really enjoying it. I'm determined to lose weight (though don't look at my eating habits... still working on that) but I have been riding my bike to work too, so I'm much more active than I previously was which I feel good about.
The other change in the past couple months would be my new-found obsession with Doctor Who. I finally got around to watching them (I've had the whole New!Who series on my computer for months previous) and absolutely. am. ADDICTED. Since then, I've watched all of Torchwood as well and am still trying to decide on the Sarah Jane Adventures.
But yes, expect much Doctor Who-ness from me for the future.
I've even bought and read Russell T. Davies' book "The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter" which was an amazing read. It's inspired me to start writing again, too. We'll see if I post anything though. I may just keep it all to myself since I'm doing what I always do- implanting a character that is essentially myself into characters I love. Since it's just me writing for myself, I may as well write what I want. Plus I'm just happy to be writing again. This way I don't have to worry about making voices accurate or any of those other worries that create insecurities and cause me to just shut down. I'm looking at it more as a writing exercise than anything, and I'm just happy to be back at it.
The only other thing I can think about is the fact that I'm in the tentative stages about looking into possibly moving to the UK. I've wanted to live there since I was 9 and I figure, why not now? I don't have any close attachments to the US other than my mother and I'd come home to visit, plus I'm already in California which seems just as far away as anywhere else. I also am in the early stages of my career and figure that getting some experience working in another country would make me more marketable on the whole.
I dunno. It's a pipe-dream right now, but I'm honestly looking into it. I've looked into the things I have to do to bring my cats with me, as well as a couple webpages talking about immigration, and I'm about to apply for a new passport. The only big problem I'm seeing is the job issue... I need six months notice before I move and that's quite a chunk of time for theatres. My experience has been that no one starts looking for a new crew until about 3 or 4 months before they need it. That said, maybe they do it differently in the UK? We'll see.
