Allergies for sure
Possible stage fright too . I am reading Masque of the Red death tomorrow at the library. possibly no on e will come, ( ack bad) Possibly some will come ( ok ) possibly many will come ( eek )
Poe is not so easy to read
Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?
'Shells'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
beth b - Oct 25, 2010 4:02:53 pm PDT #6620 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Spidra Webster - Oct 25, 2010 4:30:46 pm PDT #6621 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Sorry the allergies are messing you up. I hope that resolves for the better soon.
The Twitterer for The Chuck Jones Center just tweeted that they'd heard my album and were buying it for their private collection. Also, Issue 3 of Zelda magazine just came out and that will have my first (and likely only) print ad for this album so I'm excited about that. Two nice things in one day!
smonster - Oct 25, 2010 4:31:27 pm PDT #6622 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
::sigh:: So, a friend talked some sense into me, and I've emailed B. to let him know that it's probably not a good idea for me to come meet him in NOLA. As much fun as it would be, I'm just getting too old for this long-distance ill-fated crush thing. I'll come down some other time. Hopefully I'll get over it at some point, at least enough to hang out without getting all googly eyed.
::sigh::
Bed time for me.
smonster - Oct 25, 2010 4:32:01 pm PDT #6623 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Yay Spidra! Very cool.
Strix - Oct 25, 2010 4:35:13 pm PDT #6624 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Spidra, that is awesome!
smonster, that is...responsible, but depressing? I'm sorry.
Beth, remember to read slower than usual. People get nervous and speed up and can't "hear" it, so if you read slow enough that you think you are reading too slow, it's probably about right.
Spidra Webster - Oct 25, 2010 4:44:41 pm PDT #6625 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
That's very good advice, Erin. I second that!
Ah, smonster... crushes can be fun but many of us get crushed by them. It probably is the better part of valour to live to crush another day.
beth b - Oct 25, 2010 4:44:57 pm PDT #6626 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I thought I'd go through and mark some places to pause.
It took me about 20 minutes to read. I think 30 should be closer to how long it should take. I need the time to think about some of these words before I say them
I don't get frozen stage fright, but positive I am getting sick - yup. really restless just before, yup. or wondering if I can take a nap. or suddenly hoping no one will show. and this happens even before my story time... which I've been doing forever.
Strix - Oct 25, 2010 4:56:31 pm PDT #6627 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Take deliberate pauses to take a drink, and pause every three paras to look at a different part of the audience.
Or pretend to be Poe and drink copiously before and during.
Ginger - Oct 25, 2010 5:06:01 pm PDT #6628 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Or pretend to be Poe and drink copiously before and during.
Got laudanum?
amych - Oct 25, 2010 5:24:55 pm PDT #6629 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Cashmere, dude, you crash into the OTHER team.