Rush Ticket! The Last Five Years

I bought my first rush ticket to see this two-person musical about the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.  The musical begins from the woman's perspective as the relationship is ending, and from the man's as the relationship is beginning.  They cross in the middle and by the end of the play, the woman is at the beginning of the relationship and the man at the end.

My rush ticket cost $20.00 and I highly recommend stopping by Portland Center Stage and asking how the process works, if you aren't familiar.  They were very nice.

Also, this musical will be a movie soon.  It comes out later this year.

Can we not do something about this?

This is from an interview with Charles Cross about Kurt Cobain.

I want our country to be better at catching all the lost people who get to a place where the only way they can function in the world is by using drugs.  I want us to help people dealing with the kind of problems Kurt Cobain had.  We're a rich country.  There's no way we should be letting people slip through the cracks like that.

An after school walk

Home from Overlook Park, though Overlook, Arbor Lodge and Kenton neighborhoods.

Swirly parking strip.

Gnarly old trees in Overlook.

TARDIS

Gorgeous yard and cottage.

Precise hedge.

Telephone booth peeking over a hedge.

On the fence in that same yard is the "Poem Booth."

My favorite secret way to cross a busy street.

Burning bush among the strawberries.

Stairs being overtaken.

Retaining wall overtaken.

A nice swoop and orange trim.

This home does not fit in at all, and is tremendously ugly, but I love it for those two reasons.

In the side yard of the tremendously ugly home are many wood crafted signs.

This bungalow went and grew a big backside in the Omaha woods.

Kind of looks like a dead cat, but was actually a very happy warm cat.

Victorian with a stellar paint job.

Check out the detail on the door.

Can I make it through this alleyway?

It was okay until I found myself completely surrounded by blackberry bushes.

I made it through, though can't recommend it.

Sorting the letters.

Along with the journals, the letters from the first two years of college were recovered.  They are all a jumble and I'm sorting them.  I have another tub of letters which I went though a few years ago, so I hope to get everything in neat piles of people.  It's been fun to see what I can find.  They are especially nostalgic because after my first two years of college I got an email account. Though the letters still arrived, it wasn't with the same frequency.  All of that early electronic communication has been lost and I mourn it.  That makes these letters all the more wonderful to read now.

KRPS schedule in 1994

Just in case you need to know what I was listening to my first two years of college.  Friend Sue and I especially enjoyed the Bob and Bill show.  That's the first time I can remember a radio show giving an email address to write to, along with the regular postal service address.  We also loved the Radio Reader, though Friend Sue got to listen to him more than I did as she was always doing something in the Art building, whereas my hours were spent in the library.

Requiem: dresses.

I think I found this dress at Savers, but I can't be sure. It's straight polyester of the late 60s/early 70s variety that is quite thick and sweaty and never breaks down.  The dress is SHORT.  I wore it ironically with bright green fishnet stockings and knee-high boots for "green and gold" spirit day my senior year of high school. I also had my longest false eyelashes on.  You can't get a sense of scale when it's laid out on the table like this, but looking at it today, I marveled that I had ever been that small.  It was one of the first dresses I wore when I was starting to get an idea of what powers my body had, if I dressed a certain way.

The label.

This dress was inherited from an Aunt (I can't remember if it was Pat or Carol.  The length makes me think Aunt Carol had it first because she had the legs, but the lace around the collar makes me think it was Aunt Pat's.)  It spent many years as a "dress up" dress in the dress up box.  I can remember wearing it when it came to my toes.  But I grew up and it was another high school discovery.  Also quite short.  I love the purple and orange pattern. It's pretty worn out, which is too bad.

Another brown polyester dress probably bought at the same time that yellow one was.  I don't ever remember wearing this, but I have a clear memory of H. wearing it, again ironically, for a spirit week dress up day.

Aside from the indestructible nature that comes with polyester, this has a great back zipper and, I discovered as I was searching around for a label, was homemade.

This came from the Salvation Army Thrift store and was my favorite dress for many years as a child.  I had a thing for old fashioned dresses so this was an incredible find.  I wore it for Halloween one year, and then any time I could after that.  Always for dress up.  I even fashioned hoop skirts from the circled bit of plastic that came with the lawn dart set.  This is homemade too, and still gorgeous.  If it was anywhere near fitting, I would have kept it, but someone else will get to be thrilled to find it.

Postcard from Virgina

This is from Sara, who will soon be sending me postcards from an entirely different state of the union. She reports they had very good weather for their visit to Natural Bridge.  I am currently loving all the benches placed just so, so one can contemplate the natural bridge from a sitting position.