I've been having a blast with the poetry forms book I stole form my mom. There was one entry about Alphabet poems. It told the writer to write a poem based on how a letter looks to us. We use ee cummings as a model:
e.e.’s:
who are you, little i
(five or six years old)
peering from some high
window at the gold
of november sunset
and feeling: that if day
has to become night
this is a beautiful way
I was amused with what I came up with (no where as lovely as ee's):
Who are you, little c?
Pac-man, I think
Chomping fruits and speeding up
Around the corners of your maze
You search for these,
For bananas and cherries
And oranges: more points for
A higher score.
When you’ve chomped a screen-full
You may move on, but careful
The higher the level
The more frequent are your ghosts.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Nora's 201st post
Reporting from the JET.
Act one of Broadway Bound is longer than the whole Two Men in a Box.
Well, half of my week is over. Highlight of the last week at JC Penney:
Nora: That rack of St. John's Bay shirts is pretty empty. Should I try to grab some from the stockroom?
New Supervisor: I think there may be some in the stockroom.
Nora: Yeah, that's what I'm asking.
New Supervisor: Do you know how to go upstairs to the stockroom?
No. I haven't a clue. Good thing I'll be out of there before they can teach me!
Highlight of Monday's Babysitting:
(N.grills cheese sandwiches and puts them on plates for E. and O.)
O. I want dip for my sandwich!
N. What dip? Ranch?
O. (Shouting) No! The red one!
E. (Also shouting) Yeah! Weh Wa!
N. Ketchup?
E. and O. (Shouting) Yeah!
(Nora squirts Ketchup on O.'s plate)
O. More!
E. Moe!
(Nora fills the plates)
E. (Screaming) Moe!
N. You don't need more.
E. (Screaming louder) Moe wahh Wehhhh!
N. What?
E. (Screaming and crying) Wehhhhh moe!!!
N. You don't need more.
(Nora puts Ketchup in fridge. Meanwhile, E. plays with the ketchup on her plate with her bare hands and then hops off her high-chair.)
N. No! Stand still! Don't touch anything!
(E. runs to dining room curtains. Nora turns around and sees tiny, gooey red hands clutching the curtains from behind.)
Also this week I taught Hannan House Yesterday which is always a joy. We read a play about how Nero, Ivan the Terrible, and Satan form a plot to destroy Christmas from their hellish domain. Of course, we won't be performing that one but BOY was it an experience to listen to. It was all in rhyme.
Finally, I had the read through for Inherit the Wind at the Park. The cast, I believe, is very good, esp. those who were cast as Drummond (Kirk Kreckler) and Harrison (I think his name is?) (Some guy named Frank is the actor.) The guy playing my opposite is named Ian and is a film and video major at EMU. I asked him if he were my brother. He said no. He's not my brother--this Ian is over six feet tall. I made the statement that after the trial is over, we run off to become an Ice Skating team.
That's all folks. Two more days of JCP. Three and and a half more weeks at JCC (That's the Jewish Ensemble Theater hang out.)
I should also mention that here at the JCC, someone had a beach party
bar mitvah and filled the welcome hall with blow-up palmtrees. I didn't even get to see the hall where they had the actual bar mitzvah. At the end of the party, the people who threw the bash threw out all the trees to the loading dock. Annie and I salvaged our own.
Act one of Broadway Bound is longer than the whole Two Men in a Box.
Well, half of my week is over. Highlight of the last week at JC Penney:
Nora: That rack of St. John's Bay shirts is pretty empty. Should I try to grab some from the stockroom?
New Supervisor: I think there may be some in the stockroom.
Nora: Yeah, that's what I'm asking.
New Supervisor: Do you know how to go upstairs to the stockroom?
No. I haven't a clue. Good thing I'll be out of there before they can teach me!
Highlight of Monday's Babysitting:
(N.grills cheese sandwiches and puts them on plates for E. and O.)
O. I want dip for my sandwich!
N. What dip? Ranch?
O. (Shouting) No! The red one!
E. (Also shouting) Yeah! Weh Wa!
N. Ketchup?
E. and O. (Shouting) Yeah!
(Nora squirts Ketchup on O.'s plate)
O. More!
E. Moe!
(Nora fills the plates)
E. (Screaming) Moe!
N. You don't need more.
E. (Screaming louder) Moe wahh Wehhhh!
N. What?
E. (Screaming and crying) Wehhhhh moe!!!
N. You don't need more.
(Nora puts Ketchup in fridge. Meanwhile, E. plays with the ketchup on her plate with her bare hands and then hops off her high-chair.)
N. No! Stand still! Don't touch anything!
(E. runs to dining room curtains. Nora turns around and sees tiny, gooey red hands clutching the curtains from behind.)
Also this week I taught Hannan House Yesterday which is always a joy. We read a play about how Nero, Ivan the Terrible, and Satan form a plot to destroy Christmas from their hellish domain. Of course, we won't be performing that one but BOY was it an experience to listen to. It was all in rhyme.
Finally, I had the read through for Inherit the Wind at the Park. The cast, I believe, is very good, esp. those who were cast as Drummond (Kirk Kreckler) and Harrison (I think his name is?) (Some guy named Frank is the actor.) The guy playing my opposite is named Ian and is a film and video major at EMU. I asked him if he were my brother. He said no. He's not my brother--this Ian is over six feet tall. I made the statement that after the trial is over, we run off to become an Ice Skating team.
That's all folks. Two more days of JCP. Three and and a half more weeks at JCC (That's the Jewish Ensemble Theater hang out.)
I should also mention that here at the JCC, someone had a beach party
bar mitvah and filled the welcome hall with blow-up palmtrees. I didn't even get to see the hall where they had the actual bar mitzvah. At the end of the party, the people who threw the bash threw out all the trees to the loading dock. Annie and I salvaged our own.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
one of those rants about being busy, skip if you like.
Well, I did it again. Got myself into a show. Or two, if your count the backstage area. I told myself I would take a break from theater. Meanwhile I start rehearsals for the neighborhood's Inherit the Wind on Tuesday, and I'm right smack in the middle of tech week for the JET show. They're running act II right now. I wish Palmer were here. Good news is, there's not much food in this show. Less dishes to wash. I wish I were doing props for Oleanna.
I'm busy enough to be in school again. I have JCP (last week) every morning next week at 6am. 3 days of babysitting, prep and class time for Hannan House. Meeting with a writer's group somewhere in there. Too much to do when I'm going to bed at 12am and waking up at 5. It's only Sunday night, not even the start of the work week and I want to collapse. But hopefully after this week I will be very very rich. For some reason, I'm doubtful of that.
Just this week is bad. Here is my schedule past that (you know, just in case you want to hang or something...)
Mondays: babysitting 11-5
Tuesdays: Hannan House, 12:30-2, I'll probably go there at 11 to prep, make copies, etc. Rehearsal at night
Wednesdays: Sitting for the Garrett's in the afternoon, JET or Park Players at night.
Thursdays: Writer's group in Ann Arbor at 4:15pm, JET show at night
Fridays.: babysitting 11-5, No JET show, Sun went down on the sabbath
Saturdays: 2 JET shows, 5pm and 8:30pm. So much for the sabbath. I guess the sun will go down around 6pm after daylight savings.
Sundays: Church and JET show or Players Rehearsal.
Oh my... will that actually be my life?
Keeping on the happy side, the gas prices have been falling...
I'm busy enough to be in school again. I have JCP (last week) every morning next week at 6am. 3 days of babysitting, prep and class time for Hannan House. Meeting with a writer's group somewhere in there. Too much to do when I'm going to bed at 12am and waking up at 5. It's only Sunday night, not even the start of the work week and I want to collapse. But hopefully after this week I will be very very rich. For some reason, I'm doubtful of that.
Just this week is bad. Here is my schedule past that (you know, just in case you want to hang or something...)
Mondays: babysitting 11-5
Tuesdays: Hannan House, 12:30-2, I'll probably go there at 11 to prep, make copies, etc. Rehearsal at night
Wednesdays: Sitting for the Garrett's in the afternoon, JET or Park Players at night.
Thursdays: Writer's group in Ann Arbor at 4:15pm, JET show at night
Fridays.: babysitting 11-5, No JET show, Sun went down on the sabbath
Saturdays: 2 JET shows, 5pm and 8:30pm. So much for the sabbath. I guess the sun will go down around 6pm after daylight savings.
Sundays: Church and JET show or Players Rehearsal.
Oh my... will that actually be my life?
Keeping on the happy side, the gas prices have been falling...
