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What's fresh and new in the life and work of Seska Lee.Week of July 7th, 2008Summer is here and with a vengeance. We had some cold and rainy days in June, but so far July has been about heat and sun and humidity. I have not been able to get out and enjoy it though besides the occasional walk. I slather on the sunscreen and try to stick to the shade. I need to find me a pool and go for a swim. I need jump in feet first without bracing for the coolness of the water. It is that kind of hot. Live
Show Tonight! Oh my goodness! James came from his run today with an injury. He took off his shirt and showed me the mark that was left when a car door opened into him. He was running on the sidewalk and someone carelessly opened the door without looking and he got slammed. There is the red part which is some sort of scratch and below it a bruise. It is going to be pretty ugly in a day or two.
I shot this in a park today. It gives you a little update on my activities and my upcoming weekend trip to Toronto.
Windows Media 8.5mb - 1min40sec Week of July 14th, 2008I am back from Toronto. The Toronto Burlesque Festival was great. I must say some of the performances were breathtaking and I was left so entertained and so inspired. The people I spoke to were all so lovely. I am glad I went. I bit the left side of my mouth on Saturday and it is painfully healing. Anything remotely acidic makes it burn. I also burned my tongue on some coffee so my tongue feels a bit raw too. All to say, I am not a happy mouth girl right now. Here are some photos from my last day in Toronto…
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Show Tonight! Another mix for today’s entry. My brain seems to be working that way this week. I was surfing the Net and came across a website that used the word sperminated. I hate that word. I also hate the words preggers, baby bump, baby-momma and baby daddy. I am not pregnant, I have no plans of becoming pregnant, I think pregnancy and parenthood is good stuff – but this slang, for me, debases it. It all sounds sooooo tacky and gross when you use those terms. I bought Marie Claire magazine because Maggie Gyllenhaal is on the cover. I will likely buy all the magazines that feature her as she dopes promotion for her The Dark Knight. I think she is so smart and sexy. I think I will do a DVD rental of her stuff in the next week or two. I hear that her film Sherrybaby is phenomenal. And her Agent Provocateur campaign? Love it! Berry season was a bit delayed here in Quebec because of the cool weather we experienced in the spring, but I have no complaints right now as I enjoy local strawberries. Fresh strawberries on a warm, humid morning. What a great way to start the day. Next up will be blueberries! Week of July 21st, 2008I am so excited. I am getting a new computer. I haven’t had an upgrade in quite some time. I have been working with a combination of an unstable laptop and my old ptwo. It has made working on website design, photos and video editing a very slow and challenging process. There have been many crashes, reboots and lots of waiting as I try to accomplish my work. Soon though I will be back in the fast lane and I cannot wait! Working with a much faster and trouble free computer will definitely help me along with my work (for my sites and those of my clients). Yea! - After a crazy time in June I have been trying to take it easy show-wise. I won’t be producing any shows this summer and I am keeping my performances to a minimum. I have a rehearsal and play performance this week for the The Dragpiper. It is not for a formal audience. We are putting it on for the producers and people in charge of the dramaturgy that the play won at the Montreal Fringe Festival. It will take up some of my time this week, but not in an all-encompassing way. It does mean a small time change for this week’s webcam show though. It will be at 3pm Eastern and then back to my usual spot at 9pm next week. I also only have one burlesque gig booked this summer. I will be going with my Team Burlesque friends to the Eastern Townships to perform at a summer festival called Shazamfest. We have a late night spot and we are all quite excited about performing outside. I hope it does not rain on us! - I am very antsy about going swimming. Not pool swimming, mind you. I want to be by the ocean or a quiet lake. I want to be lying on the beach or on a dock. My usual opportunities for cottage life are not available to me this year until Labour Day Weekend, but I want to enjoy some fresh air and quietude soon. I am not sure how I am going to make this happen, but I will. Webcam
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Little Change Can Do A Lot of Good So I am sitting at my desk and using my new computer. It is such a joy. I have so much more room at my desk now that I have a flat screen monitor and that is about it on my desk (before I had a bulky regular monitor plus the laptop. The desk was a mess of wires too as I had various things plugged into it for additional storage space and peripheral devices. I feel so good to be in the 21st century! I still need to clean up my folders. They are not quite the mess of my office and its boxes of unfilled papers and documents, but they do require a little purge. I have duplicate files as well as things I have not used in years from old projects. I hate the clutter – whether it is in person or in my virtual space on my computer. However, I have been living with clutter for a couple of years now. It is finally time for a change. Time to really clean things up. I have referred to some organizational self help books in the past. Their plans are similar in that you need to sort and access your stuff and then throw out what you do not need and assign a place for the stuff you want to keep. These plans appeal to me, but implementing them on my own is daunting. My friend LJ has offered to help me out. It is a bit scary to have someone come into my office and help me with the chaos. It makes me feel vulnerable. But I trust her and think her support in dealing with this task will be such a relief. I have been feeling overwhelmed by my office situation for sometime and it is really bring me down and making me feel anxious. Time for a change. If I want to experience stress I go shopping. Good and bad stress. Sometimes if it is an easy shopping day, one where I am buying little things that I need and wear all the time, like tops and skirts, then I get a rush of adrenaline. I find it exciting and I am happy. As I try things on and then pay for purchases I find my heart rate is noticeably faster than normal. This I think is due to the fact that I do not shop very often. I try to live according to the philosophy of buying things that fit my actual lifestyle not an imagined one (thanks Rita for this advice). So buying things that I need within my budget, things that are simple and casual, gives me this rush. I have to be careful though because I feel this rush could propel me into going into credit card category and that is something I try not to do. I like to pay things with the money I have. I like to clear my credit card each and every month. Well, this to me is the good kind of shopping stress. The bad kind of shopping stress is when I need to make a larger purchase, one for a special occasion. That happened today. I had gone shopping with LC a couple weeks back. She and I are both attending a friend’s wedding and we decided to do a little window shopping to see what kinds of dresses were out there, what suited our bodies and our budgets. It was a good sales day and I actually bought two Betsy Johnson dresses that were 2 for 1 (from the already 50% off sales rack). It was an awesome deal. The dresses are more suited to daytime occasions. Not right for the wedding, but definitely some nice pieces for my wardrobe. After that little stop we hit BCGB, which was also having a sale. We each tried on dresses and found some that we liked. Of course, the one that I liked and suited me best was not on sale. Since this was our pre-shopping day I knew I had time to think it over, which is what I did as I continued to look for other dress, which was very much a Goldilocks endeavour (too casual, too fancy, too low cut, just not right). Now it is two days to the wedding and I am thinking that the BCGB not-on-sale dress is the one. Off I went after supper to the shop. I re-tried on the dress as well as a few others. I was horribly indecisive. My date for the wedding is Joe and I have not seen the suit he is wearing. Which dress would match his suit best without being too matchy-matchy? Which dress would he like best? All these concerns were causing me to have a minor freak out. Finally, I went with the dress I had found 2 weeks ago. It is long, strapless, flow-y, quite pretty. I think I made the right choice. I think. Ah, the stress! Week of July 28th, 2008I slept 12 hours last night. Hit the sheets at 8pm and woke up at 8am. This was all due to a very late night on Saturday. I went to a friends wedding. A lovely, romantic, and emotional wedding. I got up early on Saturday to get my make-up and hair done. Then I met up with Joe who was my date (they were friends I made through him). We picked up LC and her wonderful boyfriend (one of the coolest couples I know – good peoples I tell ya) and went to the ceremony and then to the reception (with a brief interlude to check into a hotel close to the reception. Throughout the day and evening there was lots of conversation, dancing and boozing. I got terribly emotional by the end of it. I went to bed at 4am and then proceeded to cry for about two hours as I processed all the nostalgia and mixed feelings it brought up in me. My boyfriend consoled me. We had sex. I finally fell asleep. I woke up at 10:30am with the puffiest eyes ever. Had more sex. Took a shower and joined our group in the lobby. Off we drove back to the downtown area to drop people off. Then Joe and I had lunch (really good Mexican food) before he dropped me off to a Team Burlesque rehearsal. Let me tell you I was exhausted by the end of it. I ate some leftovers from lunch, washed my face, and brushed my teeth. I went to bed for what was to be a nap and woke up at 4 in the morning. I knew I could sleep some more and that is what I did. I feel really good this morning. Ready for the full week ahead. Here is a little
video about my prep and the results.
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Show Today! Seska : Today Online Reading: Catching up on my Bound Not Gagged and Valleywag reading. Song Listening / Video viewing: Rick Springfield’s latest. I’ve been looking up everything I can find on You Tube. Maybe I will tell my Rick Springfield tonight or in a future videoblog entry. Did you know he is 58? Man, does he still have it going on. Poor James. He was up all night. At first it was because he was watching a movie on my new computer and monitor and then it was because the monitor died. Right when he was about to pause the movie and go to bed the monitor went white (white? I thought they went black or blue.) He decided to test the monitor on other computers to see if it was the monitor or the computer that was busted and indeed it was the monitor. When I got up this morning he was packing it up and getting ready to bring it to the store for an exchange. Now he is in bed getting some much need rest. I find it difficult to see him in pain. There is nothing I can do about it. It is very frustrating to be in a position of powerlessness over someone you love. Today is a semi-domestic day. I tidied up the kitchen, made a pretty decent lunch (sautéed zucchini with salad, Tofurky slices and a bowl of my favourite store bought soup – Cashew Carrot Ginger fro Pacific Foods. I am feeling full, full, full now. Now I am doing 4 loads of laundry. Next will be a trip to the gym. I have to wait for this lunch to digest first though. Tonight will hopefully be a trip to IKEA. We are in need of some glasses and bowls and a larger purchase – a wardrobe. Ever since I moved my costuming from the very cramped bedroom closet to the coat closet our coats have been on a standing rack by the door and it has been quite the eyesore. That will change very soon! Quick entry for today. I have caught some sort of stomach flu or ate something that is not at all agreeing with me. A different at home day than yesterday. The troubling thing is tomorrow I am supposed to perform at an outdoor festival an hour and 30 minutes away from Montreal. I hope I feel better. Crossing my fingers! |
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