I've been waiting to write in the blog for a while now. It seemed fitting that I would update it exactly one month since my last post back home...and then I missed that. Surprise, surprise. But anyways--here's been my life during that last month...and a day or two:
4 Jobs: Education Director for Prime Stage Theatre, Dramaturg for Young Playwrights Festival at City Theatre, Teaching Artist with Gateway to the Arts, and Teacher Workshop Coordinator for Shakespeare-in-the-Schools. I have been to observe classrooms, taught in classrooms, and gotten lost several times on my way to said classrooms. And I haven't even begun drinking more than one cup of coffee a day (Mom, be proud!).
3 Steelers Games: And they've won them all. Rothlisberger, who? All spent with lovely company, delicious food, and lots of beer.
2 Season Premieres: House (who's now happy? It's a shock to the system) and Glee.
One of the following: wedding (Tiff and Ryan's), baby shower (Meredith and Ryan's), 1st Birthday party (Grace's), Pens game (first pre-season and inaugural game in the new Consol Energy Center in suite seats), trip to Moraine State Park replete with bicycles and grilled food on Labor Day, Gala for Prime Stage Theatre aboard the lovely Gateway Clipper Empress on a beautiful autumnal evening along Pittsburgh's 3 Rivers, Professional Development workshop for my Adopt-A-School teachers with Prime Stage, job interview for a full time job that would have been great on the pocketbooks but potentially detrimental on my much-needed family time, demonstration of my mad wacky theatre skills (at Tbogen's Creative Drama in the Classroom class), pep talk to incoming Literacy*AmeriCorps members, finally successful experience changing my name on my driver's license to "Alyssa Herzog Melby," and homemade yogurt (it's really not that hard!)
Too many to count: coffee dates, lunch dates,volunteering at the East End Food Co-op, loads of laundry, tomato jars canned, and meetings, meetings, and more meetings.
And always: a wonderful husband, a "Beau"dacious dog, and a helluva lot to be thankful :-)
Up next: deep breaths. tea. sleep. And attempting to relish every second of the madness!
