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The Post-Meridian Radio Players just announced their cast lists for their Summer Radio Mystery Theater! I am very proud to say that Jared will be playing not one but two parts across the three pieces featured in this show. In the production of "Gracie Takes Up Crime-Solving," drawn from the Burns and Allen show, he will be playing the womanizing charmer Bill Goodman. Personally I thought his reading at the audition for that part was phenomenal, so I'm really glad he got it. This piece will be directed by usernamenumber, and I'm so happy for him that he'll get a chance to work under Brad's direction. Additionally, the other day he was offered the role of Sir Henry Baskerville in another of the three pieces The Hound of the Baskervilles. I am a huge fan of that novel, so that's really cool. He'll be in excellent company, too. Congratulations to rigel for getting the lead in Sorry, Wrong Number, directed by the awesome audioboy. And most of the other cast members are names I recognize from previous productions Jared did with Theatre@First, such as the amazing Leslie Drescher, who was Rosalind and Caroline Bingley. Jared's wanted to get into voice acting for a long time now, and I know he loves working with this group, so I'm extremely happy for him. It makes me so proud to see his name on the cast lists here on the show website.

Jared and went to see the last production that PMRP put on, when they did an episode of Red Shift and a reading of The Day the Earth Stood Still. I'd never been to an audio drama performance before, so I didn't know what to expect. They lined the edge of the stage with microphones and had a row of chairs along the back where the actors waited until it was their time to move up and speak. The sound effects were handled by the techies over the sound system, like in a regular play. The actors were sort of in costume too, which was interesting. I was impressed to learn that oakenguy* was one of the writers of well-written and hilarious Red Shift script. All the actors were very funny and did a great job, but the highlight of the show for me was lediva, talking in the WEIRDEST sort of strangled-off nerd voice, playing a violently obsessed fan from a race of acid-spitting aliens. It was an interesting experience, and one I will be repeating when I attend the Summer Radio Mystery Theater. It will be July 27th and 28th, both nights at 8PM and then a 2PM matinee on Saturday. I hope you'll join me there for Jared's PMRP debut!

1. How do you store your nail polish? I just moved into a new apartment after having lived in a dorm (where it was all just kinda everywhere) and I don't know where/how to put it all. It's currently just sitting in a bag in my closet. I live in a one bedroom with my boyfriend so keep in mind that I don't want to like... totally take over the room.

2. I recently bought a purple mascara that I thought would be fun for the summer sometimes. I haven't opened it yet because I'm kinda afraid to. I feel like once you open it and use it once the three month countdown begins. I don't want to use it every single day, but I'm kinda afraid it'll be a waste of money and I won't get to use it that often before it goes bad. I guess the question is what should I do?

Thanks everyone!

Happy Armistice Day!

There's nothing quite like a long weekend for getting stuff done. This weekend, we replaced the dead microwave and the failed lawnmower. Front lawn has been mown, which means no more pretty little blue flowers *sad* but the neighbors may be a bit less annoyed with us *yay*. The back yard is mostly mown, which is impressive given that the grass had become waist-high in places. We will still need a weed-whacker for a few spots, and I don't think the mower was too happy with us, but it didn't die the way the plug-in electric did. This also marks the first time I have ever successfully started a gas mower.

Purchasing was done on Saturday, mowing was done on Sunday. Which is good, because Sunday was the only day all long weekend that was not oppressively muggy and hot. I am not looking forward to this summer...

Other stuff: laundry, picking up a new exterior light, and (for me) getting started on the next freelance assignment for the Secret Job. There was also quite a lot of lying around the house, as both darthsatyr and myself are in different stages of recovering from an incredibly nasty cold.

ETA: Forgot to mention that I also blanched two bags of fiddleheads to freeze, and picked the first rose of the season.

One of the other players in the system does this with her blog and I feel like writing again;

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( Madeleine Blanchefleur's Journal )

This weekend was load-in for Sherlock Holmes, and things went quite well for my first time doing this with a group other than Hold Thy Peace. I threw on my work clothes and reported for duty at the Natick Center for the Arts, which is a converted firehouse made into a very cool performance space. We spent Saturday and Sunday setting up the stage, building the set, and hanging the lights. I've picked up the ability to at least lend a hand to just about everything, but I was assigned to painting early on with the seventeen-year-old ASM and our Holmes's two young daughters. I think there may have been some of "let's not give the little girls the heavy lifting jobs" in that assignment, at which I roll my eyes, but I enjoyed the work and feel like I made a pretty solid contribution. Our assistant director Tom said, "I really admire your enthusiasm," to me, as I was jumping in to help wherever I could. That made me feel good, as I really do like tech week-- as I said to him, I want to do and make all these things that aren't feasible in my regular daily life, so tech week is my chance to build stuff or paint stuff and all other sorts of things of that nature. My best contribution here was that I was allowed to do the painting for the flats representing the interior of the gasworks. I was told to make the plain green look like aged, worn metal, so I took a sponge and dabbed it with black paint, then went over that with the other end of the sponge dipped in green paint. Then I smeared the whole thing together, and splattered some white flecks by Tom's suggestion. Somebody with more knowledge and experience will probably have to clean it up a bit, but as you can see from this picture, it doesn't look half-bad.

first things first.

Please  donate to my Komen fundraising efforts this year.  the Walk is coming up soon.

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Hi everyone!  I have a couple of questions today for you.  I used to use the Her Cut line of shampoo and conditioner - I left my near-empty bottle at my parents' when I went to school, but I came home for the weekend, used it, and now my hair feels like MAGIC.  It's shiny and smooth, but light and not weighed down at all, which I LOVE.  I bought mine at TJ Maxx for $3 a bottle, and it used to be $22 per bottle when Sephora carried it.  I can still find it on their website, but I cannot pay 22 freakin' dollars for a 300ml bottle of shampoo!  

( cut for rambling and underwear troubles )

Thanks for your help, beauties!

[this post will be crossposted to tumblr, I have no idea if I've formatted properly, LJ is strange]
I apped the following seven characters for Story Wars
three people with very similar names, by weird coincidence:

• Mel, from Sunshine by Robin McKinley
• Maladict, from Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
• Malcolm Reynolds, from Firefly

two noblemen with family problems:

• Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation from Avatar: the Last Airbender
• Faramir of Gondor from Lord of the Rings

two potential people of mass destruction:

• Numair Salmalin from the Tortall books by Tamora Pierce
• Sollux Captor from Homestuck

I put the following in the "other stuff you'd like to tell us" section:
You may have noticed a set of narrative themes these characters have in common. These are some themes that interest me and that I'd like to explore.

• horrible empires doing horrible things to people, or trying to (Numair, Zuko, Sollux)
• struggling with belonging and identity (Faramir, Numair, Maladict, Zuko, Sollux)
• transformation and modification of the self (Mel, Numair, Maladict, Zuko, Sollux)
• use of language, technology, and information (Mel, Faramir, Numair, Maladict, Sollux)
• deep and abiding fondness for people who aren't terrible (Mel, Faramir, Mal, Numair, Maladict, Zuko, Sollux)
• conviction that most people are terrible (Mal, Numair, Maladict, Zuko, Sollux)
• conviction that most authorities are especially terrible (Mel, Mal, Numair)
• becoming an authority oneself because the alternatives are worse (Faramir, Mal, Numair, Maladict, Zuko, Sollux)

I'm looking for a new foundation but I have no idea what.

I currently use EL Double Wear because my skin has been pretty bad acne-wise for the past few years but now it's getting better I'd like something that's not quite as full coverage. I bought Double Wear Light but even in the lightest shade it's too dark.

My skin is oily (within 2 hours no matter what I use), acne-prone (still), sensitive and pale (I'm about NW10 in MAC right now).

Price isn't too much of an issue, but I'm in the UK so I need something that's easily available here.

Thanks for any help :)