Clownmommy

I don’t know what kind of clown thing I did in the studio yesterday both of my calves have hurt all day.

A neighbor had a class so I took her kid along with mine to the Scholastic Store in Soho and then the Apple Mac store in Soho and then Kidrobot in Soho.  Then we hooked up with the mommy-friend for lunch and went to a vegetarian dim sum restaurant in Chinatown followed by the wonders of the Aji Ichiban candy store.  They went up to Union Square to go to Petco while I went to Brooklyn Heights to pick up The Husband’s repaired shoes and drycleaning.  Back in our neighborhood I bought Coho salmon, fingerling potatoes, asparagus and heirloom tomatoes for dinner–We saw the movie Julie and Julia this weekend so now I feel compelled to mention the food we prepare in our apartment’s galley kitchen.  That will wear off soon.

We were in the studio today OMG it was hot–sweating my clown nose off–yuck!

I wanted a shower when I got home–but I didn’t get one, we went to Trader Joe’s (I’m not sure if that’s because it’s the closest name grocery or if we are jumping on the “I hate Whole Foods because they hate insurance for all” bandwagon.

I have a cheat sheet here; 4 little drawn maps of the walking patterns of my “weird lady with the candle” from the last show.  Not gonna help.  We are in a different venue…

Anyway…

Rehearsal…

Hot…

Sweaty…

Clown noses are not a comfortable thing when ones face is liquid sweat–just sayin…

So I got up alone and left to go to rehearsal and then I came home and they were preparing to go shopping for the ingredients to make homemade pizza–and while we were doing that we remembered that today is the day of the fundraiser for Doug Biviano,  our PS8PTA friend who is running for City Council.   So we HAD to go to his lovely rooftop fundraiser where My Kid could see some of her PS8 BFFs.

And now we are home.  And it’s 8 o’clock.  And we are going to make dinner from scratch!

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Not really…

I’m still awake.

NPR take me away…

School starts in 10 days.  There is a lot yet to be done.

There is also the matter of my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary next summer.  My small extended family of origin is beginning to plan a multi-generational vacation…

OK so maybe that teeny tiny cup of espresso was a mistake after all.

Julie Powell played by Amy Adams in the movie “Julie and Julia” said she thought she had ADD and that’s why she couldn’t do housework.  Just sayin…

It’s nearly 2:00 am and I am wide awake.  My head is still full of Julia Child and Ted Kennedy’s sisters and the neighbor friends we had dinner with tonight and I am worried that I won’t get up early enough to clean the front room and gather together a good assortment of costume pieces before it’s time to leave for rehearsal tomorrow.  I’m afraid I will be late.  I’m afraid I won’t be ready.  I’m afraid I won’t have done enough housework before I go to the studio and leave The Husband and My Kid at home to cook all day like Julia Child.

We saw the movie hours ago this afternoon but we are still talking about it.  We’re googling Julia Child and an actor friend from our Annex days– Julia Prudhomme (we never knew she was related to Julia Child! ).  We have less than six degrees of separation from this movie in several directions:  Julie Powell lived in Brooklyn at some point in the story;  our friend is related to Julia Child; one of our native French speaking neighbors recorded some text for another neighbor who was a vocal coach on the movie…

But mostly, we loved watching Meryl Streep and Stanley (“Big (food movie) Night”) Tucci as Julia and Paul Child.

From a going into the studio to do clown work tomorrow perspective; Julia Child was a 6’2″ woman who couldn’t play the 1950′s cute little woman ideal and oh what freedom that gave her to do great work!