Opportunity knocking

I had the fantastic experience last night of catching up with Cecilia Rossiter, who was actually my cello teacher for 3 years after college in Minneapolis, and we became good friends. She moved off to DC, I came to LA and she is now in Lincoln, Nebraska and we've re-connected on facebook (yay facebook) within the last 6 months or so. A few years ago, she was diagnosed with MS and she is currently producing a theatrical production of vignettes called "Disappearing Dis-Ease" about MS. She read me one of the vignettes on the phone last night and I liked it very much. She's done fundraising for this production and has some grant money and it promises to be a very worthy endeavor. She's incredibly organized and is proving to be a great leader of people - she's got a mass of folks contributing to the project in many different ways.

Here is a link to the project. http://sites.google.com/a/playscriptfilm.net/www/Home

She has asked me to direct the show. I would go to Lincoln 2 or 3 times in September and October for a week each, my expenses and lost income would be covered. The show will open the first week in October and then run in Omaha and in a third town, which I can't remember (maybe Kearney?) and at an MS conference in Omaha in November. We're both really excited about seeing each other again and having a project to work on together.

The writing has been a bit stagnant. I've been bouncing around the story, piece-mealing it together and I have several scenes that I've started and left hanging in mid-air, either because I don't like the way they're turning out or I haven't figured out what comes next. Oh well, something will strike me and it'll all be clear and write itself.

Off to buy toilet paper at my favorite store...Target. I could never live anywhere they don't have a Target. Damn, there goes my plan to move to London. No Target.