Darkening

[clevermanka]

I'm never ready for winter. Especially since we didn't get much of a summer this year. It arrived late, never got hot for long, and then left early. Hmph.

Last night after I got home from a farewell dinner, my hair smelled like a burger joint (not surprising, considering the location of the dinner) and I couldn't stand to sleep in it. So I washed it, which made me a little nervous. I've been leaving the henna/indigo unwashed for at least five days for everything to settle. But this morning I didn't notice any fading--even after I blow-dried the remaining damp spots before I went to bed. Hurray! And then, thanks to a couple Benedryl, I slept almost all the way through the night. I woke up once, but was able to go back to sleep after fifteen minutes or so. I couldn't believe it was really 7:00 when the alarm went off. It was so dark! Ugh.

Guess what I learned today! I'm about to lose vacation time if I don't use some soon. I thought I could go up to 240 hours of accrued time, but no, I can only accrue 208 hours. My current paycheck shows me standing at 200 hours, but I took off eight hours for Columbus Day. Still, that puts me at 192 hours. I wasn't planning to take off any time until after New Years. Guess Again! Looks like a late autumn stay-cation is on my calendar. I mean, time off work is awesome, but I'd rather have waited until January, when the weather is super shitty and I don't want to go outside.

Final note: After over twenty years off the acting stage, I've been invited to be in a staged reading of Andre's Mother by E.A.T. It's their last production before the director, Paul Lim, retires. Magic 8 Ball says: Possibility. Confirm Soon.

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[nottygypsy.livejournal.com]

"After over twenty years off the acting stage, I've been invited to be in a staged reading of Andre's Mother by E.A.T. It's their last production before the director, Paul Lim, retires. Magic 8 Ball says: Possibility. Confirm Soon"

OOOOHHHh fun!

Also YAY for the hair! And Sleep!

I have 4 hours of FTO left till Feb. BOO

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I hope that acting is like riding a bike and you really don't forget how. Of course, I never learned how to ride a bike.

[nottygypsy.livejournal.com]

You'll be awesome and WHAT, didn't learn to ride a bike????

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Er. No. Not really. I kind of learned how, when I was 16. But I only did it a couple times and I never got the hang of turning a corner.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Goodness. I remember watching agrnmn perform in a staged reading for EAT (with Paul Lim then, too) way back in 1991! There were a couple of pieces, one of which featured the then-director of the Women's Studies Department (my boss, A. Schofield). Talk about the way-back machine!

Whatever you choose to do with your stay-cation, I hope it's recuperative and enjoyable. :)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

It is a small world, isn't it?

I kinda wish I could take the time off now, because tomorrow and Friday are Fall Break. It'd be perfect!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

You could start taking 3- or 4-day weekends throughout winter! It would make it possible to take little trips....

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

That would be a great way to take off time around Deadline Season, when I don't like to be gone much. But..trips? During Non-Travel-Time? Errrr....

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

SHORT trips. Like to KC or such. Maybe as far as Hutchinson.

[poincaraux.livejournal.com]

It's a shame they changed the rules. I think I remember my mom having something close to a year of vacation stored up at one point.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's a lot of vacation time. Of course, people like her are probably why they changed the rule!

Did she ever use it?

[poincaraux.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can think of two things that probably made them change the rules

- Accounting. Unused vacation time usually shows up as a debt.

- The fear of people taking 6 month vacations and leaving their offices short-staffed.

I have no idea how much of a problem those things were. If I remember correctly, my mom took the minimum amount they allowed her and then just took the remainder when she retired. I think a lot of people used to do that in order to retire a little early.

[annamatic.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's like 5 weeks of paid time off. And I didn't know Paul Lim was retiring! That's too bad. I hope your reading goes well!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

that's like 5 weeks of paid time off

Yep. It's hard to believe. Guess it says how much I don't mind working here that I've taken so little time off in the past couple years.

I didn't know Paul Lim was retiring! That's too bad.

We're losing a lot of faculty in the next year or so. It's kinda scary.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

ooh, do it do it do it! The acting. And of course, it never goes away, I mean, there are all those little white lies and social niceties.. all acting!

I so wish we had enough holiday pay to accumulate any. It IS a definite benefit of state employment vs. private.

Yay for sleep and yaya for good hair days! I can't believe how long it's gotten. You need a back view pic so you can appreciate it yourself.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

there are all those little white lies and social niceties.. all acting!

I'm making use of those less and less these days, though. =D

And regarding my hair: Yeah. I can tell it's getting long. Mostly 'cos it's now at an obnoxious length. Right at my shoulders. UGH.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

LOL.. I plan on being a totally cantakerous old woman. Well, not so much that no one wants me around, but enough that they know not to f*ck with this old lady.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

they know not to f*ck with this old lady.

Apart from the "old" adjective, just how is that different from now?

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Ha! Point.

[pms-inc.livejournal.com]

I would appreciate a *ping* when your stage re-debut occurs! :) "All signs point to yes!"

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I'll post about it here!