LJ: La neige!!!

We had a pretty big snowstorm today, the first time I've been in a pretty big storm in a while. We got about 6 or 7 inches, the most I've seen since January-ish 2000, and I'm checking in today to mark the fact that I'm finally over not wanting to see snow ever again.

After the mega storms I saw in 93, 94, 96 and 99 (especially those last two), I was so sick of all of those 'Storms of the Century' that I really wanted a few winters without snow. I got them in 2000-01 and 01-02. So when they started talking about a storm last week, I started getting excited. And last night it was really hard falling asleep, the excitement I was feeling not unlike that which I felt when I was a kid.

Of course, that excitement was tempered soon enough as I had to negotiate the less-than-stellar maintenance efforts of VDOT to get to work. But the meteorologists are saying that we're in another El Ni?o pattern, and that we could be in for a fairly snowy winter. I kind of enjoy the prospect of that.

In other news... - I really hate for this to sound like it's turning into an obsession, because I don't think it is, but I realized this evening that while the (fascination? desire? fancy? not sure of the right word) of Monique may fade substantially when I don't see her for a number of days on end, but as soon as I do see her again, it comes back rather quickly. We had a performance of Dingleberries tonight, and once again I saw all those things that I find so attractive about her. At the same time, I kept thinking of all the things I talked about before: I can't date her because of our positions in Cherry Red; She probably wouldn't want to date me because she sees me as simple... those sorts of things... I keep trying to talk myself out of this state. I'm not saying it's a successful effort, I'm just pointing out that I am making an effort to A) not make things awkward by blurting out something, and B) not make an ass out of myself (tough job, I know).

But I still want her under my comforter right now.

Lastly, it's a certainty - I will be onstage for Cherry Red's staged reading of Anger Box on January 17. Ian decided that Dingleberries will not extend past the 16th so that everyone involved with Dingleberries who he wants to work on it are free to (me, in the cast, and Monique as the Producer). Now that it's a for-sure thing, it's really exciting, and really nerve-wracking. But I have this entire month to get over the nervousness, get some kind of handle on the piece (which I don't perceive as being that difficult, all things considered - it's not a dense piece, or at least I don't perceive it as such), and attempt to get my voice and diction back up to performance calibre.