complete garbage

i'm working on a film to be shot this summer and i'm in charge of posting the audition notices - so i went to my trusty ol' craigslist and the first email i received was from a lovely gentleman, who wrote:

this movie sounds like the worst movie ever...
you should just not make it..
if you ever start making a movie that isn't complete garbage let me know

and i will let him know. he seems really fun to work with.

flush

i am not a fan of potty humor, but that being said...

this morning, just before i headed out to teach in the one room schoolhouse, i got a voicemail from the youngest daughter,

'hi laura, it's k. um, our septic tank isn't working so please stop at the mcdonald's before you get here.'

click.

one of the best messages i've ever received.

two down...

this past friday, i turned in the last of my work for the semester. 88 pages of a 'finished' script that had, by most accounts, a happy ending. it's done. finally. i grew to hate that script with a passion and didn't want to think about it or care about it, but when i finally got to the end, i found myself strangely connected to it. who knows.

since then, i've been cleaning like crazy. it's probably four or five times a year that i clean and scrub and wash every nook and cranny in this place. it's very small, but packed in like a storage facility, which makes cleaning difficult at times. but it feels good. radio on. wearing my mom's disposable surgical gloves, an old sweatshirt and shorts, cleanin away.

i finished the kitchen, living room, and bathroom yesterday. today, i'm working on the bedroom and dining room/office/laundry/ storage/linen closet. and after cleaning, i'm going to organize my file cabinet.

- this is why i love rainy weekends.

and then, when everything is in its place, i'll finish the schedule breakdown for the film.

but in the back of my mind, i know must start on thinking about what to write for next semester. i believe i shall attempt to write a comedy.

the brunette

Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell,

the incomparable

Jane Russell,

died yesterday.

06/21/1921 - 02/28/2011