Several Things, or, Everyone Loves Lists, right?

writingthings:
-- Finished my rewrite of Man-made, including three songs which at this point have no music but only vague melodies. I think I might wait til rehearsal starts-- when I know the musical abilities of the actors-- before I tackle that part.
-- Finished the first draft of the Guy de Maupassant adaptation
-- 50 pages into my revisit to high school
-- I am definitely going to write a horror play. I think it will be set in my parents new house in 10-miles-east-of-Appalachia Virginia. Mom, I don't think you're gonna be reading this one.
-- Trying to motivate myself to rewrite my play about the comic book inker, but that probably won't happen for a month or so.
-- Still chugging along in the book, like a walking, failwriter cliche.

lifethings:
-- My roommate brings home screening copies of award-bait movies, and that is how I saw a non-bootleg version of Milk in my living room this evening. It was very good, not great. Sean Penn is great. Emile Hirsch is excellent.
-- I need to find a black-tie-appropriate dress to wear to a black tie wedding. I was only half-kidding when I threatened to rent my own tux.
-- For some reason, I am only sleeping six hour nights. Even when I decide, fuck it! I'm sleeping in til two on Saturday!, nope, awake by ten.
-- Larke and I saw Slava's Snow Show and it was great. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was there. He thought it was great too. Go see Slava's Snow Show. No, for real.

schoolthings:
-- On two consecutive days, Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson came in and talked to us about their plays and their lives and why they are awesome. You are not as awesome as Sam Shepard or Lanford Wilson.
-- Second-year workshop is in February, and I learned that Carolyn Cantor is going to direct it and she is amazing and I am lucky. She directed one of my favorite New York productions to date-- Orange Flower Water-- as well as a score of Adam Rapp plays, and Pumpgirl last year and, well, Google her.
-- Class is over for a month, and that feels very weird.