eccentrici

I tried Twittering the Tonys but lost my mojo about 11 minutes into the program. I did write up a recap and tweated it here.

One thing I didn't mention was the nomination of Rock of Ages. Here's my idea. If you can just cobble together a musical with existing music, how about YouTube: The Musical.  I say this just because I want to see this song performed on the Tony Awards. Along with Chocolate Rain and Shoes (and it's Spanish version Zapatos), I think we have a winner.  If this happens, I'd better get some credit for this brilliant idea.

Just a warning, you will probably not here much from me until August 9th. Yes, the Summer Reading Program started this Friday at the library. I had about 40 kids in for pizza, prizes and video games.  It has taken me two days to recover. 

Tomorrow I have Scenes and Screens, my drama and film club. We have the month of June to make as many short films as possible. In July, we will produce a play for the children's department. Too bad we can't do YouTube: The Musical. 

I will post something substantial later but since the Tony Awards is one of my national holidays, I'm tweeting it over at www.twitter.com/eccentrici.

...thanks to the grace of gloss  who has now earned a much deserved spot on my interests list.

Of course, I had to hop over and create devonluv on DW. Maybe that will motivate me to write something so the community won't remain empty. Feel free to pimp.

Thanks to reddawn25 for posting these.  I only have one word: AWESOME!

This will be short because I'm at work. I was processing our movie cover copy of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (which I've been meaning to read for while) and decided to read the first page.  I adore David Levithan who writes Nick's part so I had to take a look.  

First page, there is a character named Dev. He's the lead singer in a queercore band called The Fuck Offs. Now I have to read this book!

Excerpt here. It's not the first page but you will get the idea.

I'm still mulling over what happened today.  Part of me acted on instinct and the other on sheer indignation with a little bit of reckless abandon thrown in for good measure.

Our Assistant Branch Manager had to call our Branch Manager, who was coming home from a SciFi/Fantasy convention in Canada, to ask her what kind of paperwork we needed to fill out and who we needed to contact downtown. Branch Manager told ASM to tell me that I was never to do that again. After much thought, I wouldn't do anything differently. Maybe I wouldn't have called the little bastard a little bastard but I still would have run after him. I don't know what I would have done if I had caught him.

I have two nice size gashes on my left hand by my thumb. I don't know how they happened but I think I cut them on some brambles. When I went back inside to make sure the police had been called, I looked down and noticed my hand was bleeding.

The sheriff's deputy made me count the money and in total, it was $54 and some change. Since it was over $50 and the guy was 18, he now has a Class B Misdemeanor on his record and was taken away in handcuffs.

I had mixed emotions upon seeing him. He started crying when they broke out the handcuffs. On one hand, he's 18 and just screwed up royally. I don't know what makes a person do something like he did but I feel sorry for him.  I hate whatever or whoever made him this way. I hope he gets some help. I hope he can turn his life around and do something productive with it.  

On the other hand, I am sick of seeing people victimized by people like him.  I told one of my coworkers once that I pity the person who tries to assault me because I am one angry chick just waiting for some asshole to try something so I can unleash my fury upon them.  I am sick of seeing people assaulted, mugged, raped or killed because they are the wrong race, age, gender or sexual orientation.  I know that this crime has nothing to do with this issue. We were just an easy target (or so he thought) but I think that is why I reacted they way I did. Something inside me just snapped and I thought, "I am not going to be a victim. I am not going to let him get away with this." I'm sleepy so I am not expressing myself very well.  Maybe I'll be more coherent tomorrow.

I've rambled enough tonight. I'm going to bed. I need to get some sleep.