I started out by turning nineteen years old, but beyond that, this month is very hazy to me. I slogged through the first drafts for Urbantasm, really not knowing exactly what I was getting myself into (ie. now, a decade later…) Although I’d been developing Urbantasm for a rough year at this point.
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Last Wednesday, almost a week ago, I left work at 5:30 after crushing through a heavy load of caption updates. I took the train to the bus and the bus to the airport, and I got my ticket and a hot dog and a coffee and waited for the plane.
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Well, I turned eight.
I’m sure that a lot of things happened in August, 1986, but what I remember almost to the exclusion of everything else was the weekend of my birthday. We celebrated a couple days early because of the trip that weekend involved.
… Read the restI have no memories from August, 1985 that I trust. I know a bit about what was going on then, though. I was no longer attending Valley School, but my parents were home schooling. I turned seven years old. Field trips at this time consisted of going to the Saginaw and Lansing Zoos and the Impressions 5 museum.
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Once again I was involved in the Ojai Playwrights Festival, and again I worked as a literary assistant to Director Abigail Deser. This time we were developing Susan Miller’s project A Map of Doubt and Rescue. As before, I was immensely impressed by the intensity and density of the work involved.
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One of those times I tend to look at historically (as I’ve also been reading about the Roman Republic and Empire this month):
I was absorbing the changes and developments of the last year, and gearing up for the powerful effects of the year to come.
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I received Submission Rejection #1 in 1999, so it’s been a long time since I’ve been through this process. Within the next few months, I’ll probably accumulate a large number of rejections and, one hopes, a few acceptances. That’s the way it works.
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10. It’s true that East Coast girls are hip (I’m sure you dig those styles they wear), but the Mid-West farmer’s daughters really make you feel alright.
9. Why eat this when you could be eating this?
8. CBGB’s was priced out and closed down.
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This was the kickoff to the gloomiest, grumbliest year of my adult life, but the summer itself wasn’t bad so much as fraught.
Throughout July I was working at the Chicago Park District’s Theatre on the Lake at Fullerton and the lakeshore.
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