9:14 Carolyn wakes up, it’s absolutely POURING outside
12:44 Carolyn starts writing the blog for yesterday and posts the one from Monday
1:30 Carolyn considers going to Sausalito but then decides she will do it tomorrow because right now it seems complicated and Kimmer and Annabel will be home soonish
1:46 Writing in the third person just isn’t working for me right now.
1:47 Carolyn needs to email Mr. Kaback.
1:48 the sun on Sausalito looks really nice right now. It also looks very nice on the water. Which is a nice blue green right now. And the bridge. Which doesn’t look very red today. It’s under a bit of cloud coverage.
1:49 Carolyn’s leg is asleep
1:50 Carolyn wishes it wasn’t as windy because she wants to go outside.
1:51 Carolyn is going to stop writing minute by minute thought updates.
1:51:23 The wind chimes sound nice…
1:52 Carolyn clearly needs a break. And then she’ll come back and email Mr. Kaback and put up some photos.
3:25 Back to updating. Kimmer and Annabel are home.
3:27 Carolyn starts an email to Mr. Kaback.
3:39 Carolyn tries to remember everything she had to tell him
3:46 Carolyn sends Mr. Kaback’s email.
4:22 Carolyn works on photos
7:44 Carolyn emails Mr. Kaback
8:07 Carolyn uploads some photos
9:18 Kimmer and Carolyn decide to have dinner
9:30 Victoria gets back
9:35 the girls eat dinner
10:40 Kimmer and Carolyn watch Doctor Who after dancing around for a bit
11ish Annabel finds them
11:32 Thomas comes home…with a bag that has raw veal liver in it, which he then precedes to cook and then eat while watching DW with the girls… yuck
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Day 15 Tuesday 5/31
8:09 Wake up
9:05 leave the house to drive into the city, Kimmer, Carolyn, Annabel, and Carolyn’s mom are going, Victoria stays home to do senior program stuff.
10:05 we park
10:15 we meet the opera people we’d gone into the city to meet. My mom arranged a tour-ish thing for us with some of the people she knows at the opera, so we could see everything that goes on behind the show.
10:30 First stop: Costume Shop. This was really cool. We met up with a guy named Christopher who I think is the assistant head costume designer or something and he first took us through a couple of rooms filled with all the different kinds of costumes they have (which is a LOT of costumes) and then took us up to the workshop area and pointed out the different kind of “stations”. He then showed us the different costume designs for all four cycles of Wagner’s Ring Cycle which is what they are preparing for right now (Carolyn and Sharon are going to see the whole cycle in June, there are four different operas: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung. Gotterdammerung was the main focus of our visit, because they’re opening just that piece of the cycle this Sunday. It was especially interesting to see it all because operas rarely put on the whole Ring Cycle because it is so long, there are actually people who travel all over the world watching Ring cycles. Gotterdammerung is over 5 hours long). Anyway, it was very interesting to see the different costumes and to talk about them. He gave us each a little book with the sketch designs of the various costumes and talked about the choices that were made for the costumes, including fabric and color, for example the woman who is one of the main causes of Siegfried’s death wears a dress the same color as the hunters who kill him, by the end of the show Brunnhilde’s wedding dress changes somber (doesn’t want to get married) silvers and whites to darker dirtier grays to show how she has been affected by everything. Then he took us to one of their spray rooms, where they spray paint whole outfits, then the room where they dye the cloth and where the woman we talked to mixes paints to look like oil and mud and stuff and then the room where they make all the hats.
11:30 Then we left (I slipped out of my third person tense, oh well) the costume shop and went back to the opera building. Then another person took up to the highest level, about 10 stories up, where they have all the motors which run the pulls that the set hangs off of and showed us how all of that stuff works. Then we went backstage, which is HUGE in that building because they need so much room for all their stuff. It’s really cool to see.
12:15 we went to lunch at a French restaurant called Absinthe which was very good, and no we didn’t drink any Absinthe.. of course.
2:00 we met back up with the opera people and went to watch the dress rehearsal. They gave us headsets so we could hear all the different stuff the director was saying, like the commands for the different effects and projection changes. We went backstage for a bit and watched them do a 1:27 second scene change, it was funny to see the guys taking all the big rocks and throwing them off the stage to each other and just very interesting in general. It was also really cool to watch the singers from backstage. Then we went back to our seats to watch it normally. Then after awhile we went down under the stage and saw the fog machines, went back up and watched, then went up to the light booths then back to watch.
5:30 rehearsal break for dinner, we left.
6:20 we go to the store, then come home and have crab cakes from whole foods and salad for dinner. It was a really fun day.
9:05 leave the house to drive into the city, Kimmer, Carolyn, Annabel, and Carolyn’s mom are going, Victoria stays home to do senior program stuff.
10:05 we park
10:15 we meet the opera people we’d gone into the city to meet. My mom arranged a tour-ish thing for us with some of the people she knows at the opera, so we could see everything that goes on behind the show.
10:30 First stop: Costume Shop. This was really cool. We met up with a guy named Christopher who I think is the assistant head costume designer or something and he first took us through a couple of rooms filled with all the different kinds of costumes they have (which is a LOT of costumes) and then took us up to the workshop area and pointed out the different kind of “stations”. He then showed us the different costume designs for all four cycles of Wagner’s Ring Cycle which is what they are preparing for right now (Carolyn and Sharon are going to see the whole cycle in June, there are four different operas: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung. Gotterdammerung was the main focus of our visit, because they’re opening just that piece of the cycle this Sunday. It was especially interesting to see it all because operas rarely put on the whole Ring Cycle because it is so long, there are actually people who travel all over the world watching Ring cycles. Gotterdammerung is over 5 hours long). Anyway, it was very interesting to see the different costumes and to talk about them. He gave us each a little book with the sketch designs of the various costumes and talked about the choices that were made for the costumes, including fabric and color, for example the woman who is one of the main causes of Siegfried’s death wears a dress the same color as the hunters who kill him, by the end of the show Brunnhilde’s wedding dress changes somber (doesn’t want to get married) silvers and whites to darker dirtier grays to show how she has been affected by everything. Then he took us to one of their spray rooms, where they spray paint whole outfits, then the room where they dye the cloth and where the woman we talked to mixes paints to look like oil and mud and stuff and then the room where they make all the hats.
11:30 Then we left (I slipped out of my third person tense, oh well) the costume shop and went back to the opera building. Then another person took up to the highest level, about 10 stories up, where they have all the motors which run the pulls that the set hangs off of and showed us how all of that stuff works. Then we went backstage, which is HUGE in that building because they need so much room for all their stuff. It’s really cool to see.
12:15 we went to lunch at a French restaurant called Absinthe which was very good, and no we didn’t drink any Absinthe.. of course.
2:00 we met back up with the opera people and went to watch the dress rehearsal. They gave us headsets so we could hear all the different stuff the director was saying, like the commands for the different effects and projection changes. We went backstage for a bit and watched them do a 1:27 second scene change, it was funny to see the guys taking all the big rocks and throwing them off the stage to each other and just very interesting in general. It was also really cool to watch the singers from backstage. Then we went back to our seats to watch it normally. Then after awhile we went down under the stage and saw the fog machines, went back up and watched, then went up to the light booths then back to watch.
5:30 rehearsal break for dinner, we left.
6:20 we go to the store, then come home and have crab cakes from whole foods and salad for dinner. It was a really fun day.
Day 14 Monday 5/30
Monday Day 14
9:05 everyone heads out to go north to the redwoods to the Bohemian Grove to walk around and have a picnic
4:45 we stop by Paul and Jerry’s on the way home
7ish we get back home, everyone is really tired
9:05 everyone heads out to go north to the redwoods to the Bohemian Grove to walk around and have a picnic
4:45 we stop by Paul and Jerry’s on the way home
7ish we get back home, everyone is really tired
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Day 13 (5/29)
Day 13
9:30 ughhasoihf. Tired. Early. We get up because we are going to meet the 10:40 ferry and go into the city, Carolyn and Victoria want to see the Carnaval parade in the Mission.
10:30 We miss the ferry. Variety of circumstances led to this. People are bummed out. Kimmer walks down to Tiburon before the rest because she wants to wander about. Carolyn is planning on joining her soon, and then aforementioned favorite person in the world of Carolyn’s (Harrison Bowers) is free to skype for a bit sooo she skypes with him. Yay! So it worked out quite well for Carolyn that they missed the ferry.
12:07 the rest of the crew walks down to the ferry
12:40 Ferry is late.
12:55 Girls on ferry.
1:30ish Kimmer and Annabel make their way to Chinatown, Carolyn and Victoria catch the underground BART to the Mission.
2:20ish Carolyn and Victoria get to the Mission, however, they have missed the parade. Which was too bad but oh well. They buy various kinds of delicious, spicy food from people selling it in the streets. Carolyn goes to take pictures and finds that her lens is jammed for some reason. Awesome.
3:30 They leave the mission and take the BART back to the city to meet Kimmer and Annabel.
4:05 They’ve meet up with Victoria’s friend Jenny and find Kimmer and Annabel after making a few stops along the way in various interesting shop places. Commence wandering through Chinatown.
5:05 Carolyn buys a realllly cool kite. It’s an octopus.
5:20 the ferry is late.
5:30 still late.
5:40 finally on the ferry. Thomas tells them that they’re having three people over for dinner.
6:30 Everyone madly starts cleaning up and cooking. Thomas and my mom went to the San Rafael farmer market this morning and got lots of fresh vegetables and stuff.
6:40 Carolyn realizes her camera lens has a lock on it, which is why it wasn't working, and feels silly. Good news is that it works...
7ish the guests get there and help us cook
10:20 they leave, we commence to cleaning the kitchen while dancing around and listening to music (it’s the best way to do it).
11 we finish and then watch Doctor Who :)
9:30 ughhasoihf. Tired. Early. We get up because we are going to meet the 10:40 ferry and go into the city, Carolyn and Victoria want to see the Carnaval parade in the Mission.
10:30 We miss the ferry. Variety of circumstances led to this. People are bummed out. Kimmer walks down to Tiburon before the rest because she wants to wander about. Carolyn is planning on joining her soon, and then aforementioned favorite person in the world of Carolyn’s (Harrison Bowers) is free to skype for a bit sooo she skypes with him. Yay! So it worked out quite well for Carolyn that they missed the ferry.
12:07 the rest of the crew walks down to the ferry
12:40 Ferry is late.
12:55 Girls on ferry.
1:30ish Kimmer and Annabel make their way to Chinatown, Carolyn and Victoria catch the underground BART to the Mission.
2:20ish Carolyn and Victoria get to the Mission, however, they have missed the parade. Which was too bad but oh well. They buy various kinds of delicious, spicy food from people selling it in the streets. Carolyn goes to take pictures and finds that her lens is jammed for some reason. Awesome.
3:30 They leave the mission and take the BART back to the city to meet Kimmer and Annabel.
4:05 They’ve meet up with Victoria’s friend Jenny and find Kimmer and Annabel after making a few stops along the way in various interesting shop places. Commence wandering through Chinatown.
5:05 Carolyn buys a realllly cool kite. It’s an octopus.
5:20 the ferry is late.
5:30 still late.
5:40 finally on the ferry. Thomas tells them that they’re having three people over for dinner.
6:30 Everyone madly starts cleaning up and cooking. Thomas and my mom went to the San Rafael farmer market this morning and got lots of fresh vegetables and stuff.
6:40 Carolyn realizes her camera lens has a lock on it, which is why it wasn't working, and feels silly. Good news is that it works...
7ish the guests get there and help us cook
10:20 they leave, we commence to cleaning the kitchen while dancing around and listening to music (it’s the best way to do it).
11 we finish and then watch Doctor Who :)
Day 12 (5/28)
Day 12
We hung about the house doing various things until 4:30 then we went to a
5:15 dinner at the Chez Panisse Café (Thomas works downstairs at the restaurant). It was all very good.
7:20 we left to go to the Berkeley Rep theater (which you’re probably familiar with, Mr. Kaback)
8:07 the show starts, we saw Let Me Down Easy, written and performed by Anna Devere Smith. She also did that movie Twilight about the LA Riots, we watched it in English class sophomore year. She interviews people and then acts out their responses to her questions. Let Me Down Easy was about death and cancer and dealing with death. It was really, really good.
9:50ish the show ended, we drove home
3:30ish I went to sleep…
We hung about the house doing various things until 4:30 then we went to a
5:15 dinner at the Chez Panisse Café (Thomas works downstairs at the restaurant). It was all very good.
7:20 we left to go to the Berkeley Rep theater (which you’re probably familiar with, Mr. Kaback)
8:07 the show starts, we saw Let Me Down Easy, written and performed by Anna Devere Smith. She also did that movie Twilight about the LA Riots, we watched it in English class sophomore year. She interviews people and then acts out their responses to her questions. Let Me Down Easy was about death and cancer and dealing with death. It was really, really good.
9:50ish the show ended, we drove home
3:30ish I went to sleep…
Saturday, May 28, 2011
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