January 10, 2006
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The Daily News
1 Do you ever take inventory on your own laziness? I don't want to call it laziness this year so much as just a sort of malaise that seems everywhere.
2 It may have begun last year when we were doing so many different activities. I designed the Toondra for serendipity, that is, the chance occurence that it might go somewhere really cool.
3 Like the beach, or maybe a great picnic spot. I wound up keeping fresh sweaters, folding chairs, flashlights, water guns, sleeping bags, flashlights, umbrellas, swimming goggles, and old brown shoes all in a constant state of readiness.
4 It worked, because last Spring we had a lot of cold, rainy days. If I somehow WOULD roll down to the beach, it was easy just to take a couple of folding chairs out of the back and have an instant seat for me and any number of passengers. All you need is sand.
5 Well, I also started finding that boxes were GREAT for just throwing things in, like paper plates, cups, forks, lighter fuel, wood, and unreturned students' papers, perfect for the occasional campfire. So I began putting lots of things in boxes, with no rhyme nor reason to content.
6 Still, it made it almost TOO easy, and quite useful. The drawback came when I actually had to get to the beach a few weeks ago. There was no room for people. So I moved half that stuff into the Theatre, and shipped the other half to Texas.
7 Well, the haunted house hit, and then the Show, and then it got cold, and THEN we had a couple of small parties in the Theatre, and now, I suddenly have fresh sweaters, folding chairs, flashlights, water guns, hay, etc. backstage, along with dead, dry roses and Taco Bell bags, and several dried-out vases that have turned sort of an amber-dirt color.
8 My classroom also has boxes and random stacks of things all over, but it fits in with the ambiance of beauty that has always been Peace 61. It all seems sort of consistent with my plywood curtains.
9 I HAVE been working on so many things that we never really took the time to clean and organize, but and now I have bits and pieces of ALL that stuff in every area of the Theatre and in my classroom.
10 And then, when I get home, I go to my back yard, and see that IT hasn't been touched since a storm blew it all apart. The gazebo from the Importance of Being Earnest, so beautiful this summer, has collapsed and crushed a summer umbrella, and there are leaves and puddles sitting out among the weeds, another science project gone to seed.
11 I'm REALLY beginning to think it's time to roll up the old sleeves and get things organized.
12 I have this perfect book called Organizing for Idiots.
13 Somewhere.
14 It's serious business, silliness.
--Nathan Lane
15 It happens every Spring.
16 Until then, I think I'm gonna kick it on the couch and count my blessings.
17 See ya again.
18 Happy Birthday, TA.
19 Peace.
~H~
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