After Halloween everything starts fading...

It's autumn!  Mostly!
The weather is beginning to cool down slightly, and the nights are chilly which is lovely.
I'm starting to fall in to a comfortable routine as far as my schedule goes which is nice.  I've been fortunate to pick up sub dates consistently thus far (thanks in part to a hiring freeze on subs at the moment) and that certainly helps with life stuff in general.

I went to the National Book Festival last month and that was really great!  Things are moving along with the wedding (200 days to go!!!!!! If I were keeping track...) and I'm starting to look ahead to May and what I want to make my next step employment wise to be.

After some sporadic reading online I'm really considering starting a "life list" or "bucket list" of things that I would really like to accomplish/see/experience.  One of the most exciting things about getting married in the spring is that I'll have a partner to work on all these things with.  That makes everything scary just seem so manageable.

In small but happy news I finally completed a DIY project I've been working on for way too long:

Ta da!

It's a type drawer to jewelry storage project and I am happy that it turned out well!

Well lunch is over, so back to teaching!

~Marley 

Movin' on up...

Well I've not been too great at blogging as of late, but life has a way of taking up a lot of my time so what can ya do?
To start off with: I'm currently ASMing Speak No More: The Silent Shakespeare Festival for Synetic Theater.  We just opened Macbeth last night and I'm really having a good time with all the new experiences.  I'm starting to figure out that my favorite shows to work on are the ones that nobody else is doing.  I like different and exciting works.  I like it when I have to think about how to best describe the show I'm currently on like with TCP and WATTAGE and now this.  So much of what I do not care for in theatre is based on staleness or stuffiness or pieces that fall in to a rut.  Now I of course have a fondness for many classic works and a deep appreciation for theatre history, but I love works that challenge an audience.  Don't underestimate the intelligence of the people supporting your work, if you put it out there they may just join in.

Phill moved in to his apartment last week!  It's nice and cozy and I am beyond jealous of his new commute time.  I know he's enjoying having his own space and being able to settle in to a place for the first time in a while.  I'm so excited to be joining him there in April!

In trivial yet exciting news: I got my wedding dress on Tuesday!  Mom just sort of mentioned going in to the store just to take a look around so we went in and I pulled a few things and we kind of flew under the radar (my mom and I would rather get help if and when we need it, not have a salesperson hovering constantly and pressuring us) and I just sort of threw on a few dresses.  There was one I liked but was about 2 sizes too big and one of the salesladies offered to check for another size in the back and what do you know, a brand new dress in my size and it was just kind of perfect.
My mom keeps on just being really amazed at how painless of a process it turned out to be.  I kind of hate shopping and trying on clothes tends to be an agonizing experience so my mom was expecting a long, emotional quest to find a dress.
Thank you universe for making finding a homecoming, prom, college graduation, and now wedding dress all be a super fast and perfect process!!
Now we're just going to have to find her a mother of the bride outfit at some point!

Ah well, back to life!
~Marley

Won't you wake up the day...

So we're 75% of the way through Heritage's season!  Thus far things have been going well.  My Fair Lady had a solid run and closed two weeks ago.  There were a few personalities that were a bit difficult to navigate around, but where would the fun be if everything was easy?
The middle two shows Boeing, Boeing and The 39 Steps opened these past two weeks and all three of the shows have been pretty well received.  I personally loved Boeing, Boeing.  It's a show right up my alley and some of the performances were really excellent.  She Loves Me has been rehearsing from the second week of MFL and we go into tech on Monday.  It's going to be an interesting tech to say the least.  It's one of those shows that appears to be pretty simple, and those are always the ones you have to watch out for.

Phill made some calls for an apartment yesterday to see about availability which is really exciting!  Yay apartment for Phill and in a few months, me!
Also in exciting news: We got to go to Richmond and I got to see Laura and the other 2/3rds of the SM 2010 group!  It was awesome to see them and eat at the Village and Bottoms Up, and walk around Carytown.  It was great and a wonderful post-show closing stress reliever!

Tiny hats at Bygones! 

On the employment front I've hit some bumps for the fall/winter.  I'm hoping the situation I was planning on does end up working out, but I'm not holding my breath.  Oh the joys of job searching!  If nothing else, my going back to Studio 2nd Stage is locked down for the first few months of 2012.  Thank goodness for that.

Things I've been super thankful for lately: Phill working here, Netflix, Kindle, having my own room, paper plates (washing dishes is apparently not the cool thing to do in the frat), Haven season 2, my family and their crazy incredible generosity and enthusiasm when it comes to planning this whole wedding thing, the happy atmosphere of the church here in Charlottesville and how amazing it is that I can go almost anywhere and find a community where I feel I belong, and also: peanut butter M&Ms.