Womaninheels

lives in the power of possibility



I'm doing 23 things
 

How I did it
How to move out
It took me
2 years
It made me
peaceful


How to start a blog
It took me
30 days
It made me
satisifed


Recent entries
read "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
Just Read It! 16 months ago

I found the self-absorption slow and a little boring at first but then I realized how wry and honest it was and how shockingly like me. I had to embrace the ‘I can do anything’ belief that has emboldened me and most of the other upper middle class Americans in their twenties that I know. A nice look at a time of life (early adulthood, the just out of college twenty-somethings) and a place (San Francisco just as the dot-com boom was taking off). Kinda catalogs the birth of the modern yuppie. Anyway, a bit of slog but worth it. Definitely.



write a play
Rewriting 3 years ago

So I am in the process of rewriting my play. The director and the producer would like the character to be more likeable from the start. I think this shortens her arc and that bad casting made her so unlikable. It’s being done in a local festival thsi summer. I am so resistant to the changes. They should have been done two days ago and I still have only a few pages done. My heart’s just not in the changes.



live in Paris
Summer 3 years ago

This summer I am performing a play in Paris. I am so excited and scared. I feel really vulnerable right now and I am not sure how being out of my safety zone will hit me. I think I won’t fall apart like the last time I was there. I have dreamed about the French experience my whole life. I hate that stupid emotional issues could keep me from wholly immersing in it.




 

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