Stuff and Things and Whatnot

I’m exploring yet another alternate career as a dramaturg, the person who works with the director and actors and helps to make sense of the text of a play before it gets staged. First Presbyterian Theater is doing my absolutely, all-time favorite Shakespeare play, Much Ado About Nothing, and so I get to exercise my English major muscles and help with vocabulary and usage in the initial table reads of the script.

Totally fun, except that it’s past my bedtime every night, and I am exhausted. These crazy theater people live their lives a good two or three hours later than I do, and it’s starting to take its toll. And I knew it, too: I’ve had this experience before, and know what it does to me, but Beatrice wouldn’t let me stay away. Thankfully table work is over next week, and it will be another couple of weeks before I’m called back to be on book and check the accuracy of the text, which means a couple of weeks to try to catch up sleep before my schedule gets all thrown off again.

In addition to opening a yarn store, I also have an idea for a place that would be kind of like a gym, but instead of having fitness equipment and classes, there would be crafting equipment and classes. There would be lots of room to work, and you’d be able to get your hands on things to try them or that you don’t want to spend the money on just for this one project.

Well, there’s a place in San Francisco that’s doing sort of the same thing, but for building machines and inventions and stuff: TechShop. It’s set up exactly the way my idea would work, except that mine would be less expensive and for craft stuff. I just need some cash to start it up.

This excellent free tutorial from the BBC will come in handy when I’m associate producing a TV show.