I’m home for a scant few days to work two gigs while Alex remains in Florida readying our lovely ‘66 Airstream Safari for the 2008 Tin Can Tourists Winter Convention.

In the absence of posting I have been nonetheless very busily involved with the website and those of a few others. Lots of work to be done in the weeks and months ahead, as I’ve taken on the redesign and organization of www.showhistory.com to make it a more easily navigable and usable interface for contributors and researchers alike. I hope to have the initial CSS work done by mid-month. The new look will be unveiled when the site owner approves. Here, I’ve added links under Kindred Spirits and Trailer Travel and we’re discussing updates to our Recommendations listing since nearly all the current ones are linked in the second sidebar.

There have been ups and downs aplenty on this tour, some quite elating and others quite upsetting, but we remain steadfast traveling carny folk in the midst of it all, doing the very best that we can wherever we are, whatever we happen to be doing.

I find that I miss school, more specifically the structuring of my time that school provided. I’m determined to find a way to get back for the MFA in Arts Management sooner rather than later. I’ve proven I can work well remotely and I have instructors who will no doubt back me up on that if need be. The Masters Program is all about finding and coordinating funding for the arts, the very thing I want to know about in order to feel my educational toolkit is complete. I’m not the only degreed performer out here doing this sort of work. In point of fact another performer I know completed a very similar Individualized Studies degree program to my own and took her Masters in Folklore the same day I took my BIS in Multimedia Storytelling. We worked the same Renaissance Faire for two years running without knowing who each other were. The world is small in very cool ways a lot of the time.

I’ll be experimenting with a work schedule for myself that includes not more than two hours at a time sitting at the computer or the sewing machine and mandatory moving about in between those periods. Yoga, long walks on the beach, anything to get me up and romping that gets my blood moving about will do nicely. This should net me about 6 hours worth of work between the Mac and the Singer on any given day when implemented.

Got into the gym for a great workout and got my house in order for West Coast company arriving this evening. Off to fetch them from the airport presently. Then perhaps it’ll be time for a spot of dinner.

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