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chanaleh ([personal profile] chanaleh) wrote2006-08-08 10:01 pm
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state of the chanaleh, August 2006 edition

While I'm here madly zipping and burning files, which entails a lot of "hurry up and wait", I can darn well sit down and write that long-overdue LJ update.

Home: Lurking readers may be surprised to learn that -- after 10 years living alone in the same small apartment -- I moved this month to Union Square, Somerville. I am no longer a Cambridge resident! In fact, it's been quite the year of big changes. Last fall, new job; last winter, new cell phone; this spring, new car; this summer, new apartment! (If you need my new address and/or phone, please send me e-mail.) The unpacking proceeds slowly; we are both already really tired of living amid these huge piles of boxes. Otherwise, though, I'm really liking the new living situation. And that's all I'm going to say about that.

Work: Overall still great, despite the fact that I'm here at 10pm. We hired me a subordinate last month, which is a new and terrifying fascinating experience. She's great, though.

Acting: I got cast in the next [livejournal.com profile] theatreatfirst production, a play called The Margaret Ghost. While this is a play almost no one at all has ever heard of, it's a really worthwhile script -- especially if you, like me, have barely heard of Margaret Fuller but spent your formative years totally hooked on Emerson and Hawthorne and other 19th-century New England literary figures. I shall be playing Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, which is interesting because I really hadn't thought of it as a role I should play, going into auditions; and when I read for it (since everyone read whatever parts they were asked to read), I wasn't at all sure my interpretation was what our illustrious director was looking for. ;-) But I guess I did all right! As it's a smaller part, it gives me a distinctly lighter rehearsal schedule over the next 2 months -- plus I get to play opposite [livejournal.com profile] jason237, which will be a treat. And watching [livejournal.com profile] desireearmfeldt develop the title role will also be a treat. Opening night is October 13; mark your calendars now!

And now I am very tired, so after burning one more book to its CD archive, I am going home for dinner and bed. (Boy, am I glad I bought beer yesterday, that's all I have to say.)

[identity profile] miraclaire.livejournal.com 2006-08-09 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats on being cast in the play! I just finished reading this book (http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?work=37499) about the Peabody sisters. It was pretty good and kept my attention pretty well (especailly considering that I only read about 5 pages at a time due to it being huge and not wanting to carry it with me!). As for the unpacking, James and I solved the slow unpacking problem by setting a date for our housewarming party, by which point we decided everything needed to be unpacked or in the basement. For the most part, we made it.

[identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com 2006-08-09 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Glad the new living situation is going well thus far!
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[personal profile] dsrtao 2006-08-09 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
Out of merest curiousity -- why don't you have an automated backup system?

[identity profile] chanaleh.livejournal.com 2006-08-09 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, we do. The backups of (various sections of) the file server run every night. What I need to do is archive completed materials onto CD *off* of the server so there is less to back up. It was at about 130 GB yesterday afternoon. Now it's at 108 GB. The medium-term goal is to get it down under 60 GB of active material.

[identity profile] cycon.livejournal.com 2006-08-10 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the role! Looks like we'll both have a load of theatre geekery to look forward to. :D (Remember I was telling you about the Stephen Schwartz musical Children of Eden? I just got cast as Noah. I get to talk to God and put a bunch of animals on my boat.)

[identity profile] badmagic.livejournal.com 2006-08-18 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
In case you wonder who's the new guy reading you, I met you over the weekend at [livejournal.com profile] lonebear's wedding, and added you to my list.

[identity profile] chanaleh.livejournal.com 2006-08-18 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi! Excellent!