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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
Welu:
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--- Quote from: Gareth on 19 Mar 2013, 16:53 ---Lynnie
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Gah. That's my middle name/nickname for family so I was like, why is he talking to me?
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I run into very few people who share my name, especially the way I spell it.
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Two people within ten minutes came up to me in work asking if I'd heard and was I okay and I started crying and got sent home.
Carl-E:
I'm so sorry.
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On a different (somewhat lighter) blog note, my wife's in a show that the local theatre group's presenting for the state competition, called Elephant's Graveyard, a small but powerful play about the true story of Mary the Elephant, who was hanged from a railroad crane in 1916 for killing one of her keepers.
Preview is tonight, state level competition's in Harrisburg this weekend.
This is the first time anyone in our family's done any theatre since... hell, for nearly 10 years. Theatre was, to a great extent, what brought my wife and I together. It was, until a serious injury, what my wife did for a living - and she was one of the best. Hair & makeup, costumes, props, set decoration - not to mention acting and stage management - she's won awards for all of them.
Then she pissed someone big in the local community off, and got blacklisted from one group. The injury got her out of the rest.
The fact that she was welcomed back with open arms, is on stage and doing costumes and makeup for this show, and has the full support of all of us (we know nearly everyone in the cast, and all of the backstage folk), has made this one of the best experiences she's had in a long time - especially after dealing with our daughter's illnesses for the last three years.
She needed this. And I'm SO glad I pushed her into auditioning.
Break a leg, love.
celticgeek:
Torrwch goes! from a man whose daughter is into theater, in all of those phases!
nekowafer:
--- Quote from: Welu on 20 Mar 2013, 13:34 ---I run into very few people who share my name, especially the way I spell it.
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Two people within ten minutes came up to me in work asking if I'd heard and was I okay and I started crying and got sent home.
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Well, my middle name is actually Lynne, but most of my family calls me Lynnie. A couple (mostly my mom and sister) call me Ellie now, and no one calls me by my actual first name ever. I don't think I've even heard my mom say it in like... wow, I dunno. Like a decade?
As for crying, that is to be expected - try to get all the crying out at home, but don't be too surprised if it hits you at work. Just see if you can take a little break and sit alone somewhere to calm down. The more you try not to cry, the harder it gets, it seems. So you may as well get it out.
Carl - that's awesome!!
Carl-E:
It was awesome - there wasn't a dry eye in the house, including mine. Even though I knew the story and half the lines from attending a few rehearsals, it was so moving.
Found out that out of the 4 state entries this year, two move on to regional (in Rome NY in April), so there's a really good chance they'll go that far. After regionals, it's national (Carmel, IN in... May, I think?)
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