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I'm a founding board member of the newly created Collingswood Shakespeare Company. That's pretty cool, don't you think?

See, apparently in 1910 there was a group called The Collingswood Shakespeare Club, and they were responsible for creating the Collingswood Public Library which, at the time, was one of the biggest in the area, or something. So recently this guy who works for the liberary thought it might be nice for the liberary to return the favor, as it were, and so he came up with the idea of starting the CSC. It is very much in the planning stages at the moment, but apparently we are going to incorporate as a non-profit and hopefully this will turn into a 'thing'.

Currently the plan is to do A Midsummer Night's Dream in July, possibly in Knight's Park. I am personally hoping to get an actual role, but we'll have to see how that goes. Not too many roles for a middle-aged woman in that play, but who knows. Maybe I can be Hippolyta.

Meanwhile, it is pretty nifty to be in at the ground floor of something like this. I adore Shakespeare, so I'm glad to be a part of it.

In other news, nothing new on the job front, and I am feeling sad. And frustrated. I spent a couple of hours on line trying to find something I hadn't already applied to, and my phone has been appalingly quiet.

My house is pretty clean though.

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That is so cool!

Also, I wish my house was clean.

A clean house is always a good thing.

You must tell me how I could get mine clean.

Without doing any actual housework, of course.

Applying for jobs and waiting for responses... I know exactly how it feels. :(

But joining a Shakespeare club originaly founded in 1910 sounds so cool!

Congratulations. It's really cool to be a founding member of a theatre company -- incredibly crazy and stressful at times, but cool.

Awesome about the Shakespeare! That sounds very fun, and worth doing.

Still sending you wishes for good fortune in the job hunt.

That is very, very cool. Sounds fun! The only I joined lately was Unitarian Church.

Hmm... maybe I should visit Jersey and audition :-D

Sounds pretty incredible to me, Carol!

By the way, did I ever email you back with my address?

No, you didn't! it's ckcalutius at comcast dot net.

Please do send it. I'm planning on doing the cards tonight and/or tomorrow. Finally.

It would be way cool if you COULD come to NJ, actually.

Oh, that's lots of fun! And who says you couldn't play Titania? I mean, Michelle Pfeiffer was no spring chicken when she did that role in the movie version. Shakespeare in the Park is so much fun. Our local group is doing the Tempest this year. Talk about hardly any women! But the director has said she'll gender-bend the casting, so some of the ship-wrecked courtiers may be women.

Is it too late to get in on the Shakespeare thing? Somehow I keep missing the meetings. It's so cool that you're on the committee!

Not too late at all! The next meeting is January 17th.

It's December. Expect your phone to be appallingly quiet. And hang in there! :-)