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May 26, 2008

I am starting to become a person of many ideas and little action. However, I'm bound to act on some of them so hopefully there will be exciting stuff in the near future. One thing I have learned lately is to have more focus. I can be interested in everything and dabble in everything, but each thing needs to be focused. Going with that idea, I'm aiming to do a bit better at highlighting my Boston Calendar and the events going on in a given week or month. That's a start. I still have some other focusing and action-ing to do since right now the rest of my to-focus-on list just says "write cool things".

The Boston Public Library's main branch in Copley Square has some great things going on this summer. I'm blown away by the things I think they always offer which include:

Creative Writing Group -- Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Media Studio. The Creative Writing Group offers writers an opportunity to share and discuss their work in a friendly and informal atmosphere.

Writing Seminar -- Wednesdays, June 4, 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the McKim Conference Room. This workshop is offered by the Boston Chapter of the National Writers Union for those interested in writing and in offering feedback. As there will be a mini-lesson at each session, please bring paper and a pencil.

Great Decisions Lecture Series – Tuesdays at 6 p.m. in the Mezzanine Conference Room. Each year WorldBoston hosts the Great Decisions Lecture. WorldBoston leads eight community discussions led by local experts on a selected topic Sept. 23, US defense and Security Policy; Oct. 21, Latin America: A Shift to the Left?; Nov. 18, US-China Trade Policy; Dec. 16, Private Philanthropy.

Whoa, that's some big stuff.

Some other events happening in summer include:
i-concepts: Father’s Day Sale – Wednesday, June 11 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Johnson Lobby. Purchase unusual Father’s Day gifts created from reproductions of BPL archives – Prints of historic Boston sports teams (college and professional), map reproductions, t-shirts, novelty baseballs and more.

Christmas in July and August -- Mondays and Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall. See your favorite Christmas films and be introduced to some new ones. Complete schedules for July and August.

Art Instruction for Teens – Mondays, June 2 at 4 p.m. Learn drawing and sketching techniques with accomplished artist, painter, and printmaker, Jesus Matheus. To sign up for the class, please call the Young Adult Room, 617-859-2334.

To see a full listing of June events and exhibits at BPL Copley Square, go here.

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Evolved Into the New Tired

April 15, 2008

I am trapped on my street right now. I can't get out. Can't go to work. Can't skip work and go do something fun. I'm trapped. The saying "when it rains, it pours" comes to mind. How come everything always seems to happen in such comedic proportions? Is it just that when you're so caught up in one issue, it makes it easier to be blindsided by everything else?

I've been living minute to minute again as my decription of this past Wednesday (below) attests (I forgot to mention that after all that, I went food shopping). Yesterday, I told Chris I would be home early which meant normal time (6:30-7) for most people. But, oops, there were some things to do to make recycling at my workplace possible and that meant I came home at 10pm. But then there were no available parking spots on my block because Tuesday is street cleaning day on all the surrounding streets and so all those people park on my street on Monday night. Doh.

After practically circling the neighborhood, I gave up and parked on the street cleaning street and resolved that I would have to run out before 8am to move my car back to my street. This morning when I went to do that, there was a huge truck in the middle of my street blocking the way. It moved to let me in, thankfully, but I had to park further down on my street as there was still little parking available with the truck claiming all remaining empty space in front of my house.

This was then followed by me scrambling to take care of the things I should have done the night before (more recycling work, my regular Tuesday post at Meet In the Lobby) that I didn't do the night before because I was so tired from work and circling the neighborhood and I knew I had to wake up early in the morning anyway. So I could get it done, then, right? No problem!

Well, I got my stuff done in time to make my meeting at work, but when I go outside to leave, not only is there the original big truck but there's another blocking the exact spot where my car is, doing something with the sewer! Uggh! If I got home early enough to get the usual spot in front of my house, this wouldn't have been a problem. If I chose any other spot on my block to park, this wouldn't have been a problem!

It's always so exasperating when you try so hard to be on top of things but you might have well kicked back and done nothing anyway. I don't like the lesson that teaches!

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Boy, Am I Tired

April 11, 2008

I meant to post this on Wednesday night...and then I aimed for Thursday morning...but that has taken me until Friday morning. Why? I was really, really, really tired. So tired I wasn't even eating dinner the past few nights. It was too much effort to bring the fork to my mouth. What have I been doing? Well!

Well, of course there was the screening of our movie for the 48 Hour Film Project and the residual tiredness from that weekend. Nathanael put up our movie:

Then on Wednesday, I was walking around Somerville with the mayor, cutting ribbons for the new businesses that have opened up there. Straight from that I went to meet up with Norm to pick up screeners for this year's Independent Film Festival Boston. Say huh? That's right - my newest gig is writing for Meet In the Lobby - a movie review website - and that gets me a press pass to the awesomest film festival in town. This is karma making me feel better about not being chosen as a volunteer for the festival last year - although Chris was chosen. He fell asleep during the (awesome) film he got in for free but that I had to pay for. But I got a heck of a lot of movies to watch this weekend to make up for that sad event.

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If You Only Had 48 Hours...

April 8, 2008

Today is our screening for the 48 Hour Film Project! Oh, didn't know that was what I was doing all weekend? Or rather, all last week, too? Yep! And it was awesome! Bloody dresses, bikini scenes, Nathanael getting stressed, and other crew members dancing their worries away. I'll see if it's going up on Youtube or something, but in the meantime come to the screening tonight, 7pm at Kendall Cinema!

Tickets here!

48 Hour Film Project Info Here!

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Underlying Fears

April 4, 2008

The other morning when the alarm went off and I turned around to hit the snooze button, I saw a man in my bed and screamed. It was Chris.

You know how a lot of times, even though you're sleeping, you can sense what time it is? I could swear it was later in the morning and that Chris had already left for work and reset the alarm for me like he usually does. So when I went to shut off what turned out to be the 6am alarm and not the 7:30 alarm, the guy that turned out to be Chris and not a crazy murderer scared the bejeezus out of me leading to the screaming. At that point, Chris no longer needed the alarm.

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