The Last Few Days

The last few days have been a whirl. Tuesday I had visit number 1 of several for the root canal. I had 10mg of diazepan (or Valium). I was very relaxed and a little weak on my feet after the 2 hours. The dentists were great. It didn't hurt too much and he added more anesthesia when the tooth started to wake up again. The pain was really unbearable once the first Motrin wore off. I walked up Coney Island Avenue to Walgreens to get more prescribed as well as 28 more Penicillin pills. *sigh* I have 4 bottles of medication right now. I have never had this many before in my entire life.

I spent today with Louis. He's having a tough time dealing with the playwright. I think she's a freak. She doesn't sleep. I see that she sends email to Louis during all moments of the night. It's insane. Louis is sick of having his basement flooded out and has moved his office to my place. Which is nice. We've holed up in the front room with my computer and his computer. More of his stuff will come. We walked to the Gravesend Post Office today to pick up his Amazon order. Sat for a few minutes having an Oreo McFlurry, Sweet Tea, and a Vanilla Milkshake. Then off to get Louis new pants! Yea! Cheap new pants. We met our friend Alyn along the way and spoke to him briefly. Surprised because he usually gets off at Neck Road. Bought some great food at the market downstairs and took a much needed nap. :-) Of course Louis got up and went to cook dinner. Oh and we also stopped in an Italian bakery/pastry shoppe. That was a great highlight. Elephant ears and biscotti. Mmm...tea dunking. :-)

I'm soo tired. It's been a long day. I don't know how tomorrow will be as I probably will still be at home. Louis has to go into town to take care of some accounting work.

I have to remind myself to book a car at Enterprise to take my brother to Stony Brook. Also to book tickets using the Chinese jitney buses for the 4th of July weekend.

Fresh Fruit Festival is coming up later in July. Another week of craziness..Eugh..

Boston or Bust!

I am going to Boston for the Fourth of July weekend! Yea! I'm actually going on a vacation?! I can't remember the last time I went on a holiday vacation. Soo long...it's been soo long!!!

That's some good news other than the Root Canal. *sigh* Anyway, Louis and I will be catching one of those cheap little Chinese buses to visit his friends in Boston. He wants to take me to Beacon Hill and Charles Street where he grew up. He was all excited about talking to his friend in Boston (where we will be staying at). No doubt we will get no sleep whatsoever because he will want me to get as much out of it as possible.

Louis is semi-moving in with me as well. His landlord is being a bitch after 12 years of living there. That will help me save some money and will put less of a burden on my parents. He says he wants the front room and turn it in an office. New experiences...

Work is starting to dwindle a bit as it is well into the season. Maybe it's time Louis took some professional photos of me so I can push myself out as a model or something. Just some type of income will do. Re-apply to Barnes and Noble for now? Get Health and Dental? Ask for more gigs with the Temp Agency? I don't know. It's been almost 2 weeks of just sitting around now.

Horrible Day at the Dentist.

Well, it would have been alright if the dentist had said there was nothing wrong with me. This is a new dentist that I am seeing. He's actually my boyfriend's dentist. Dr. Slobodski. Or is that Slobodsky? He's got great digital technology.

So I told him about this blister on a part of a my gums. The first time I appeared I went to a dentist -- Dr. Gerald Lenkowitz. Who took an x-ray and said there was nothing wrong. Well Dr. Slobodski thinks of him as an "idiot" because before he took the x-ray he felt the blister and automatically diagnosed it as a fistula. He said that there's something wrong with this tooth. Turned out the tooth had died. Yep. Died. Ceased to live - to exist. No wonder I was feeling this much pain when the swelling happened ON MY FUCKING CHEEK LAST YEAR! Suffice it to say -- this doctor is great so far. He has a great sense of humour and he prescribed me some Valium along with the antibiotics. I'm going to get gas on top of that Valium when I go in to get my root canal done on Tuesday, June 24th. Wish me loads of luck.

This is going to put me in the poor house. I hate the medical system in this country. I told my mother about it and she doesn't understand why there are specific doctors for extracting teeth other than your dentist. I told her blame the private practice that exists in this country. I'm about ready to migrate to England at this point. I'm really tired. I have soo much anxiety going to the dentist it's not even funny. I almost broke my mother's hand once. This probably wouldn't be such an issue if I had a dentist when I was a child that would administer some Numb medicine. But the Chinatown dentist I had a child didn't believe in painkillers. At this point I'm screaming to my parents "HOW COULD YOU!!!" Dentists have always been a problem for me and I guess it would just continue to be a problem. I'm sad...I'm only 25!!!.

AISG Reunion Dinner

I can't believe I made it to the reunion dinner. I haven't seen any of these guys for over 10 years! I thought it was going to be awkward, but it wasn't and I was very happy to have seen all of them. I couldn't believe all the people I knew.

Kate, Michael, Jeremy, Bob, Amy, and I met a few new people too. Jane, and Bob's girlfriend. We talked about the good times and memories and what we're doing right now and so on and so forth. It was a lot of fun seeing them again, and I hope that we'll all be able to meet up again soon.

I can't believe Jeremy's interning as a doctor here in New York. Apparently he wants to do his residency here. Maybe he can give me a check up for a low price. Bob's some important banker now who works like 17 hour days. I can't believe he can take this. Kate's majoring in music technology. Amy majored in Chemistry. And Mike...I forgot what he was doing. I think something in savings? Stock? Movies? Jane works at The Essex Hotel. I guess we aren't doing so bad after all.

We've all changed and grown up, but I can still see the "middle-high school" attitudes and antics. I wish I had my camera. I wish other people had brought their cameras. I'm sure no one else from Guangzhou would believe it.

Too many colds for one season

I caught yet another cold from Louis. :-( *sniff* Louis is having lots of stress and thus when I try to help him get better by giving him medicine and warm love, I catch the cold myself.

It's been busy on my end. Edward II has succumbed. It was a good run. Short but good. I wonder if I will work with anyone from that show again. If they call me for another production I would say yes of course.

I have contacted everyone that my friend Desi and James have given me about Electrics jobs in theatre. I shall be at the Bowery Hotel tonight at 2am to strike. It will be fun I think. I'm a night owl anyway. And it's good money.

I have an audition coming up also the same day as the strike. Then on Monday I will return to Hartman & Craven LLP to be the receptionist. I still haven't been called by the Extras agency for any work, but I did give them a call letting them know I am available.

Louis' room mates are all moving out. Louis will have the place to himself soon. In fact, soon he will be moving out too. He might be moving in with me for the time being. It's very stressful. He's got lots of stuff and I don't have lots of room for him.

Just thinking about the next few days makes me sick and tired. I have an AISG reunion dinner to attend this coming Friday. I'm glad for that. I haven't seen Michael, Bob, and the rest for years! A decade even! Wow...I can't believe it.

Then on February 22, I have an ISB dinner to attend at Ruby Foos. I have put Louis on the list as well as my guest. He has to come...hehehehehe...it will be a surprise when I say that he's my boyfriend/partner. Heads will turn.

Things are finally picking up and I'm happy because this winter was rough. But I finally got paid from The Guitar and I had 4 days at the law firm and a semi regular job working off-broadway. Good stuff come in chunks. Not to mention I have been able to plow through 6 books since I moved to Avenue U. Finally! What I wanted a lot of the times was the quietness to read and now I do. I read on the subway, I can read at Louis' place, I can read at my place without having loud music or people talking to me. Just quiet time in a chair reading. I can't read in bed because I'll fall asleep.

Oh, I also bought myself a USB Turntable!!! Brand new off of Ebay! for $60. After shipping costs, total $89! I'm soo glad. I'll be able to turn all the records that my father and I have into MP3s. I love listening to music with those pops. I'm soo annoyed that CDs don't have them anymore. They have been digitally rendered and fixed so that the sound is perfect. I think that's what Edward II needed during that first scene. Some pops coming from the music in the Victrola.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone who reads this.

I spent my New Year with my favourite person, Louis, who has also been taking care of me because my cold/flu is now a sinus infection. I'm in bed most of the time recuperating. I'm positive that the cold turned to a sinus infection either on Thursday, December 27, or Friday, December 28th because I started blowing out bright yellow thick sticky snot.

This morning I woke up to find myself blowing out orange snot. Or snot mixed with blood. I'm drinking more hot beverages and steaming myself in the bathroom. I'm hoping that will help. I'm also going to drape a hot towel over my face. Eugh...

I'm hoping that everyone is having a better New Year than I am. You do not want to be in my position. Trust me.

dead tired

today is the day that i break all the grammar rules. or as much as possible because i'm just too tired to capitalize and whatnot.

for the last 2 days i have been running on 5 hours of sleep. i guess it's my bad because i conditioned myself to have theatrical hours and it's not doing so well for me when i agree to take on working as a temp at a law firm. so i'm up at something like 3am in the morning trying to get some sleep. i get up at 7am to get to the office by 9. i get off at 6 to rush over to the theatre and run sound for 1 show and my day ends at something like 10:45 each night. the ride home from the subway is 1 hour. i usually fall asleep there and then drag my sorry ass up the stairs and to bed.

last night i saw a huge roach in my kitchen. i tried to kill it but was unsuccessful. i need a raid spray! i also need to buy more of that expanding foam sealant and pull out the fridge and find out where that hole is. keeping all the bugs out is not only tough, but almost a full time job. my brother was of no use last night. he just stood there watching the damned bug. i can't have a garbage bin in there for more than 1 day or else roaches would come in. cooking is fine. i just leave the window open and all the smell airs out. this sucks.

i'm tired and hungry at the same time. not to mention my day won't end today until late at night. how am i to survive? help!!