Do I wake or sleep?

Does anyone here blog on another platform besides LJ? My history blog is on Blogger and it's driving me CRAZY. Like, I actually HATE writing on it--I get very tense, I feel as though I'm fighting it. The problem is the autoformat function--I cannot turn it off. It keeps "adding" tags and code and the interface between the HTML editor and the Rich Text editor is TERRIBLE. It will look one way on Rich Text and then when you go back to HTML, suddenly all this new code has appeared. I try to take it out but it just keeps adding it.

I slave over my entries, trying to get them to look just so and then I post them and they look like garbage. I've tried checking various blogger support boards but no one who actually works for Blogger ever checks in there--just other posters who suggest solutions that doesn't actually work. At this point I'm ready just to move on to another platform--as long as they do not autoformat. I can't go through this again, it's too frustrating.

We need men for Pirates!


Writing a paper right now--it's due next Thursday but my schedule for the next 10 days is so insane, it's best to bang out as much of it as possible.  The paper addresses the modern and contemporary characteristics of Heloise (of Heloise and Abelard).  I hope to get most of it done this weekend, and then finish it up Monday or Tuesday. But right now, plowing through it, I just started the second page (it has to be 4-6 pages).

And yet a closer examination of her letters reveals a woman who is both timeless and timely—-a wife, lover, religieuse to outlast the ages, while still enmired in her own.

We need men for Pirates!

So, uh, yeah. Pirates is going very well, everyone's learning music like gangbusters--but we really need ensemble men. REALLY need them. At least two, but I'd like three. Please consider coming out for the show if you can spare the time! I have all sorts of fun ideas for the show--real water and sand on stage, smell-o-vision--but we need to balance out the women.

I had my first production meeting for A Christmas Carol Tuesday night. Almost all of the technical staff from last year are back, including Matt, Carl, Michael and the costumer and makeup designer. I have a different SM, Shawna, and producer--Bob Reed, the guy who started the Theater Company. I'm gonna miss Gina a lot--she and I clicked on a number of levels, and she was terrifically proactive. Shawna is nice enough (she was the SM for "Patrick and Lisa's Wedding") but she's VERY quiet.

( Food Porn! )

Anyway, back to the meeting--we talked about the new script and I went through it with them, pointing out areas I'd highlighted in the script where I thought we could do something interesting technically. The tech staff had some GREAT ideas that I won't give away but if it comes off the way we were talking, it will look amazing. I *am* keeping my thpoooky Ghost of the Future though. I talked about where I was taking the new script and Carl was extremely supportive, saying that last year's CC was "famously the best" (or something like that--I know he loved it, and told me that everyone on the staff agreed it was the best of all the CC productions at DeBaun). I was recounting this to Griffin and said "it's not necessarily because I'm so amazing, it's because I love the story so much and threw myself into it--I didn't just serve up the same ol' Christmas Carol."

Auditions are next week--Tuesday and Wednesday, with callbacks on Thursday. I can't wait!