Happy birthday, Olivia!!

Ugh. Tonight is the night our postings our due for school, and I am being told that the site is down for scheduled maintence that I somehow missed.

I had one of my fillings done today. He wouldn't do both of them at once, so I get to be all anxious and freaked out again in two weeks.

Birthday girl fell asleep before we got to the cake. Must now smell yummy cake until tomorrow when we can do the proper baby-smushes-cake-into-hair pictures.

My taxes (state & fed) are done! I still have some local stuff to do but since I owe, I'll pay those in April.

Hey, who on here has theatre experience? I am directing Romeo and Juliet. I know Shakespeare, but....I HAVE NO THEATRE EXPERIENCE. Other than a year house managing a theatre here in KC, I am completeing winging it.

I know Sophia is a costumer (I am NOT doing period dress: I am keeping the language, but changing the Monts and Caps to Mendoza and Castillo, and doing contemporary Chicano-urban music and dress.)

But there's all this stuff I don't KNOW...like, you know, HOW TO FUCKING ACT. Or direct. Or buildsetsmakesoundeffectspaintblock....argh.

I am a moron. But I will pull this out of my ass by the grace of Zod, or my name isn't Scarlett O'Erin!!!

(help)

In honor of Liv's birthday, here's a picture or two from the billytea-Cashmere-and-kids-and-Steph trip to the zoo last August:

Liv stares down a peacock.

Liv, chillin'.

Juliana has theatre experience and JZ, right?

Actually, there are probably quite a few people who can help. (Sadly, I am not one of them.)

In honor of Liv's birthday, here's a picture or two from the billytea-Cashmere-and-kids-and-Steph trip to the zoo last August:

Huzzah! I should really post some of my pics, shouldn't I?

I should really post some of my pics, shouldn't I?

Uh....YEAH, you should!

That's ok, Sumi -- neither am I! I'm completely faking it. But my kids are soooo jazzed to be doing theatre. I'm pretty sure I can cruise by the theatre and hit on some pro actors to come by and do some actory training, and I think I can get a sound chick and a prop chick to talk to my crew kids.

And lots of kids have family on construction, and the local detective used to do theatre and has offered to help sometimes with blocking (and I bet he'll donate a KCPD shirt for the Prince a.k.a Det. Prinze. And maybe a fake badge.)

And if I needed real guns, I KNOW I could get a truckload donated.

How do I teach stagefighting? CRAP.

Sorry to take so long to answer, ita, but I left work at 4:30 (1:30 board time) and just saw your question.

The comment goes back to Aimee's original comment that started it all -- the classmate that said that Martin Luther King ended slavery, and my response that I could accept that idea if classmate had a sound argument that Jim Crow was essentially the same as slavery.

Others have made the argument. While Jim Crow wasn't chattel slavery, it did create a comprehensive legal and social system that placed a class of people in a subordinate position. Not to mention that many members of the subordinate class were doing basically the same thing that their ancestors did under slavery -- sharecroppers being analogous to field hands, maids and cooks similar to house servants.

Ultimately, I can't quite call it the same as slavery, largely because many could (and did) leave the South (largely for the cities of the North). Not to argue that things were wonderful there, but there was the option to leave.

I was just trying to come up with a context where the statement of Aimee's classmate made sense.

(Edited to fix typo.)