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It’s fair to say that most of us, at some point in our lives, will have a low enough income that we have to scrape the bottom of our bank accounts to feed ourselves three meals a day. For most people that comes either during or directly after university. I have handily discovered what I have been calling “kitchen ingenuity” in my moments where I realize I’ve forgotten to buy breakfast foods (or even lunch foods, though this is less common). I also know that not eating breakfast is not healthy and usually leads to […]

Sometimes, all we need in a day is to do something out of the ordinary. Something just to be out in the world. Every once in a while I get done with my plan for the day and think, “Geez, I just don’t want to go home quite yet.” So here I am, getting out and sitting at the waterfront. With my B&J. This post in and of itself is a little bit of an experiment. It’s my first time posting something from my phone. I don’t really anticipate doing this all that much, but […]

Bits feed through you slowly. You are hearing bits and pieces as they are happening – slower even because you’re a member of the public and not personally involved. There is only so much you can process, even then. The words, “Oh my God, there were two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon,” are not what you expect to interrupt your work day. How do you even begin to describe that feeling? The twin towers and the pentagon were one thing – a place I had been to but never really thought […]

I created a list of goals at the beginning of the year. Normally I don’t do checkpoints like this, but seeing as I felt a bunch of them had been completed, I figured I ought to really stop and go over them. Apparently with an audience. So, here we are. 1) I want to audition for a local production of something. I can act, I swear. I’ve just always been very hesitant to audition for these things. I did, in fact, audition for Oliver!, so this one is done. Fortunately, the goal didn’t say “Get in […]

I have just spent my first two years out of college trying to figure out what I’m going to do with my life. And I’m pretty sure I’ve found it. So here comes the hard part. It’s something I haven’t just spent four years of college doing. I’ve decided, quite definitively (and more definitively than I have made any other decision in my life), that I want to be an actress. Film, television, theatre – I don’t really care. I am completely and totally in love with being someone else for a few hours every […]

A lot of us are loath to admit that we might be addicted to something – especially when it’s something that is totally and completely legal, but seems to be interrupting every day life. Such is the way of the smart phone. About two weeks into dating, my boyfriend at the time decided my phone wasn’t good enough (I was, at that point, using a MyTouch as an experiment with my Dad. The MyTouch had a few issues but was an okay phone, and a complete upgrade from the phone that T-Mobile thought I had […]

I am, by no means, new to the idea of being on a stage. In fact, a lot of the time, I’m quite comfortable up there. So why, in the spring of my Junior year of high school, did I feel the need to high tail it after getting within a foot of the door for auditions for Zorba? Because I had only ever done one audition in my life, and it was a last minute sort of thing where I had said, “Hey, director, I think I’d like to be in your play,” and […]

Being a dancer takes a lot of work. For those of us in the world of ballet – or who have been in the world of ballet until our later years, we have found that it can be difficult to keep up with training without knowing where to go. Up here in Vermont, those places get even fewer and further between. Why?   I live in one of the only states that does not have a professional ballet company. Companies that aspire to train professionals, yes. Actual professional dancers – not quite so many. Now look at Boston […]

2012 is over, and we’re now three days into 2013. Has anyone else noticed that we seem to have gone to saying twenty-twelve instead of two thousand and twelve all of a sudden. Back in 2001, that used to bug me that we went from saying nineteen something to saying two something. But anyway… The past year in review. 1) I got a boyfriend. I have had boyfriend for more than three months… 2) I have a functional working computer that can do all sorts of awesome stuff – except be portable. Which is fine. […]