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I’m writing the script for the 2010 NYIT awards ceremony….and you guys, it’s HARD! But an interesting challenge. Basically I’m just writing the words out of the presenters’ mouths before they announce the nominees and winners. When I first started thinking about it, I was like, wait, so I am going to write things in my own voice, and then other human beings who are NOT me are going to say the words?? How is this going to work?? And then I was like: oh wait. Bekah, that’s pretty much playwriting. Duh. As I work through the categories I suddenly feel like I know nothing about theater, words, or people, but blast it, I’m trying. Why, I even have a joke: the moment you set out to write ‘a hit!’ is the first nail in your IsherWood coffin. See what I did there?

I AM EXCITED! About things included but not limited to: friends coming for dinner tonight, trip to LA, Steve coming back! Julien coming to visit! High School reunion, time with my sisters, sweaters and what Boots may come, Amy Herzog’s After the Revolution, seeing what the heck happens with my plays, what might happen with my TV shows, whether or not baby kitty will get fat or even MORE fat, pumpkin bread, using my new Notebooks, The miners getting un-trapped, Evan’s baby, even more episodes of Teen Mom, and well I guess, no definitely, the rest of my life.

Every This Time of Year I start to hanker for school supplies. Folders and sharpies and pencils but MAINLY NOTEBOOKS. AHHHHHHHH so many pretty colored and new smelling notebooks, labeled by course! I think this year, I’m going to get them for myself ANYWAYS. Afterall, I’m in enough writer’s groups and / or have enough things going on in my brain to assign each to a NOTEBOOK. Amazing. I’m going to do it. Just so you know.

MY DADDY!!!!!

Lily and I went today, sure that we would be the only people there, and sure we would have a transcendental experience. Sadly, there were OTHER PEOPLE there. But we still managed to transcend just a little bit, here and there. And now, pictures of my favorite things!

Props from a production of Waiting for Godot in post-Katrina New Orleans:

This gem from an exhibit of all lady-made photographer:

And last but not least, THIS THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today under the BQE there is an old car parade show competition thing! Very exciting.  I was running through and had to pause for a couple to pass. They looked at me like I was insane for this ‘running’ and my time would be much better spent sitting inside of an old car and making it ‘Vroom.’ (Seriously though, some of them where really amazing – straight out of the 50s (or: Back to the Futures 1 and 2), exposed engines, funny pet names airbrushed across the hood, and funnier owners. There were also Tshirts, and portapotties.)

Last night, I built this. Or rather, assembled. It’s a modern playhouse gifted to me by Kerry for the opening of House of  Home (get it??? Get it???) It sadly kind of took me a while, but I did it. Clearly I have many gifts. Please notice the irony of the indoor grass, and the carefully selected angles. Yes, I will pretty much have my own reality show in which I assemble and arrange tiny houses by Tommorrow.

…or two.

I finally checked out Sundays at six, sort of by accident! I went to a meeting, and low and behold, it was Sunday, and it was six, and there were teddy bear stands, there was a five year old singing Wild Thing with a cover band, there was homemade jewelry, and MOST IMPORTANTLY there was this large impromptu dance number, featuring both children and adults, perfectly synchronized to Jay Z’s hard knock life. WHAT?! I’m not sure. But: incredible.