tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15056443468521450452023-11-16T05:37:30.038-05:00You Can FlyKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-73425890579267901412012-08-19T14:26:00.000-04:002012-08-19T14:26:28.867-04:00An Elephant's Faithful, One Hundred Percent.Maybe a lot of you have this problem or maybe I'm the only crazy person out there (though I suspect not). I love the English language. I love it so much that I spent 4 years and lots and lots of money to study and get a degree in it. I studied overseas in its birthplace. Words taste as good to my brain as good food does to my mouth. I know all the rules and usages and meanings. And I feel like Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-41741163632190949032012-08-14T21:10:00.004-04:002012-08-14T21:10:49.720-04:00Howdy, StrangerWhen I opened this blog up to find out just how long it had been since my last post, I did not expect the answer to be "almost two entire years." I don't know what I did expect it to be, but that sounds like a lot.
Welcome back, anybody who's still out there.
For the uninitiated, a quick catch-up. Since last time, a lot's happened, but it boils down to this. Kris and I both found jobs in early Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-44361682246789999142010-09-30T23:46:00.002-04:002010-10-01T00:05:00.001-04:00NormalYou know how you'll be in a place and all of a sudden it'll remind you of another, more memorable time when you were in that place and sometimes it's so strong it makes you feel like you're in that past moment for just a second? That just happened to me in the bathroom. Perhaps I should explain.I am always the first one to admit I hated my job. I didn't enjoy doing it, I didn't enjoy being there,Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-52882609672502655292010-09-08T16:57:00.002-04:002010-09-08T17:20:24.880-04:00How It's BeenSo here I am, midway through my first week of unemployment. And it is...weird. It's weird to not have the "work day" to structure the rest of my day around. It's weird to not have any immediate deadline on anything (i.e. you have to go to work at X time or they won't pay you) even though there are things I do "have to do" if I expect to get another job at any point in time. And it's weird to be Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-84289585621419481492010-09-03T11:35:00.003-04:002010-09-03T11:41:39.292-04:00The End/The BeginningYesterday was my last day at work and it pretty much went the way any other day would. Joked with some of my coworkers, got some work done, got pretty bored and had to kill a lot of time (thank God for the massive distraction that was all the content surrounding 9.02.10 day). There were tearful goodbyes and cleaning out of computer files. And then, I went home. I would have thought the night Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-10644995501709403312010-09-01T14:46:00.007-04:002010-09-02T12:39:13.051-04:00What I Won't MissIn an effort to comfort myself about my soon-to-be unemployment, I have been trying to keep in mind all the bad things about my current situation, things I will not have to deal with soon enough, some of them possibly not ever again.The commute. It's about an hour each way, it involves a car and two trains. When there's bad weather, I get rained and snowed on. When there are train problems, I Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-6410414984155239262010-08-31T13:29:00.005-04:002010-09-01T12:51:52.352-04:00What You Can DoMaybe this is selfish of me to write. But every time I tell people, at least people I know, about our situation, along with being sympathetic, everyone says "Let me know if there's anything I can do." So this post is in response to those people, whom we appreciate very much. And if you don't want to do anything, well then never mind. No hard feelings. But if you want to help, you can......be Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-20447679762090083962010-08-30T17:55:00.006-04:002010-08-30T18:15:43.575-04:00The Contents of Your DeskWe've all seen it on TV, when a character leaves their job and not by choice, they're seen sadly carting an cardboard box containing "the contents of [your] desk." I've only done this once before, and it doesn't count because my last day came in the middle of an illness that left me bedridden and I had to come claim my stuff later when I was feeling better and happy about not working there any Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-75539831854716570402010-08-26T12:18:00.005-04:002010-08-28T11:40:32.167-04:00American NightmareThis is gonna be a tough one for me to write. But it's part of my life and the story needs to be told. Last week, I was told my company was laying off three of our seven employees, including myself. You may or may not be aware that, a month ago, I got married. My husband is also currently unemployed, having lost his job about 2 weeks before the wedding. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, we are Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-61677436351311481502010-08-25T14:52:00.004-04:002010-08-26T12:17:29.078-04:00Real HousewifeHi, I'm back! For reasons that will soon become clear, you might expect to hear a bit more from me than you have in the past. Anyway, back to what inspired me to pop open a blog window and start typing.I used to refuse to watch reality TV. Back in the day when I still thought I wanted to work in scripted entertainment, be it theatre, film, or TV, reality programming was an affront to everything IKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-54354195352523875202010-06-23T09:20:00.002-04:002010-06-23T09:24:33.285-04:00A Short Play About Why We Are Getting MarriedSCENE: Bedroom, morning, Karen is getting dressed in lightweight olive-colored shorts and a brown t-shirt. Kris enters. Kika the cat sits awaiting attention and/or food.Karen: I feel like these are my army fatigues. I wear this outfit whenever I have to battle the heat.Kris: (pauses, then scoops up Kika in his arms) This is my weapon against the heat.Karen makes a confused face. Kris comes over Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-37474931566379624922010-04-28T11:59:00.005-04:002010-04-28T12:36:47.016-04:00Blues in My BonesI am into the blues. This is rarely true of people my age, at least in this area. Most people under 30 that I hear this from are hipster wannabes who say it because it sounds cool, but in my case it's a bred-from-birth genuine love. I was raised on the blues by my father, a blues singer, and mother, an avid blues fan. As kids, my sister and I were taken to blues festivals where we danced on Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-60387252368816191242010-04-27T12:42:00.005-04:002010-04-27T13:18:52.510-04:00The Is-Shoe(Bad puns are my life. Deal with it.) It all started with a picture in a magazine. All girls, when they get engaged, are "supposed to" start looking through endless pages of wedding magazines to draw inspiration for their own wedding, so I did. One of the few ideas I found to steal was a unique spin on "Something Blue." The picture showed a model pulling up the hem of her poufy white gown to Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-65036334306689620562010-04-13T15:34:00.003-04:002010-04-13T15:44:53.561-04:00Whither Blog?Maybe, considering I haven't updated this in almost 6 months, I should call this "Withered Blog." (or "Withering Blog" for all the sarcasm. Rimshot please!)I've been a fan of blogs since they existed. In college, I wrote a piece about blogging for the campus paper before 'blog' was thought of as a verb, or even before more than half the people in the country had even heard the word. I still read Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-25257688781501953362009-10-05T10:31:00.003-04:002009-10-05T11:00:14.694-04:00I have not forsaken theeThose of you who check here occasionally for an update and are used to not finding anything new, please don't have a heart attack :)I am a terrible blogger, I know. My last post was about 6 weeks ago. And that, I admit, was a blatant attempt to get noticed by the makers of Rifftrax and perhaps mentioned by them on Twitter. It didn't work. *shrug*I have been making a lot of changes lately. Not Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-47901823654789226862009-08-21T10:54:00.002-04:002009-08-21T11:24:36.339-04:00The Not-Too-Distant FutureSo, my work at FringeNYC allows me to get cheap tickets to participating shows and I had planned to take advantage of that last night, but the show I planned to see sold out. So instead, I went to Rifftrax Live.For the uninitiated, Rifftrax is what some of the boys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 are doing now. They make mocking audio commentaries of many modern movies that you can download forKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-69048273468690078022009-08-15T13:21:00.002-04:002009-08-15T13:34:01.127-04:00Sometimes You ShouldI'm really good at self-denial. I guess I can't really say that. If I were really good, I would do it just the right amount, but really I do it too much. It's why I've been so good at Weight Watchers, I never let myself have anything anyhow, it just gives me more rules about how to deny myself more effectively and what to allow myself that feels indulgent but isn't. It's also a source of Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-15903811046142034812009-07-29T09:22:00.005-04:002009-07-29T09:48:06.320-04:00Comedic Interlude: Painfully AwesomeA long time ago, I was dubbed "painfully awesome" by a good friend. I forget who exactly came up with this, but if you are this person, please speak up and be recognized :) What this means is that I am awesome, by all definitions of the word, but frequently, so awesome it hurts. Which sometimes means I am super extra-awesome. And sometimes means that I am awesome, but lame at the same time and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-62972590398617065812009-07-08T13:19:00.002-04:002009-07-08T13:43:22.008-04:00What I Did On My Summer VacationHas it really been almost a MONTH since I blogged? Wow, I am the slackiest blogger who ever blogged. Lame. I've been busy. The show I mentioned in my last post has come and gone if you can believe it. I got to work with some really great people and learned a lot, so I call it a win. I can't really talk much about that time, because not much happened in it, other than work and rehearsal. I was in Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-9579062978017282592009-06-09T14:31:00.002-04:002009-06-09T14:49:25.339-04:00Here Comes SummerDespite what the weather in the NY area would have you think, it is in fact summertime. OK summer doesn't OFFICIALLY start for two more weeks, but once the calendar turns to June, for me, it's all over. It's my favorite time of year and I'm enjoying it pretty well so far. So what's been going on?The Forum at the Looking Glass went very well. I really enjoyed working on it and I learned a LOT. I Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-71979972762140791412009-05-28T12:12:00.002-04:002009-05-28T12:26:38.583-04:00I Told YouI said I was gonna be hard to find and I meant it. I've been up to quite a bit.Working on plays again has been great. Even when it's tough, long hours or cranky casts or whatever, it's been great. I'm happy. I'm enjoying what I'm doing. I'm learning a LOT. I have a lot of energy. I feel good about my days and when I'm doing something else and it's sucking, I have rehearsal to look forward to. YouKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-22539992824880194232009-05-06T16:02:00.002-04:002009-05-06T16:08:54.611-04:00If You Need Me In The Next Month......you may find it very difficult to find me. I have joined the ranks of my friends with ultra-busy schedules from school or a band or what-have-you. As of now, I have my rehearsal schedule for both shows I'm working on and now know exactly what I'll be doing every day of my life for the next 30 or so, and also throughout parts of June as well. I'm going to be at rehearsal a lot. I'm not going toKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-3141918220947410842009-04-29T14:15:00.003-04:002009-04-29T14:31:05.519-04:00Work, Wedding, and WeightHi! So I'm back. Part of the reason I haven't updated in a bit was a 2 1/2 day tv/phone/internet drought due to a service problem, which was truly tragic. I found ways around most stuff (baseball on the radio, streaming shows I missed online when we got service back, and using my iPhone as a lifeline for email/facebook/twitter), but man does life hurt without the internet. But anyway, another Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-29884945604016694922009-04-20T12:51:00.002-04:002009-04-20T13:29:04.741-04:00A Weekend in Status UpdatesI had a lot of interesting facebook updates this weekend, I'd thought I'd use them to tell my story.Friday night Karen thinks life's too short to drink shitty beer. Since being on Weight Watchers, I have had only light beer or wine when an alcoholic drink was called for. Friday night I had points to burn and needed to unwind, so I decided to open just one full-calorie, high quality beer. It was aKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1505644346852145045.post-56248107969349852492009-04-16T13:05:00.003-04:002009-04-16T13:22:23.663-04:00Remember Why You Do ThisI've been sort of waiting to update till I had something to report on one particular venture I was excited about, but that has sort of fallen through. Being bummed about that and various other minor things made me not want to blog more, but then I remembered that this place is about cheering myself up and remembering the good things so here I am, back again.As I said, the project I was hoping I Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724398989761786071noreply@blogger.com0