{"id":98,"date":"2008-07-07T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T21:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-07-27T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T21:45:15","slug":"pandas-and-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/07\/pandas-and-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandas and Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog-images\/pandahat.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog-images\/pandahat.jpg\" alt=\"Panda Hat\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started working on baby projects for T. I&#8217;ve already made a little panda hat. I still need to buy eyes for it, but otherwise it&#8217;s finished.<\/p>\n<p>The other project is going to be a pullover with a train on it. I found a pattern, and I&#8217;m going to change up the colours to make it look like the Hogwarts Express. I had ordered the pattern a couple of weeks ago, but they had run out, and I had to wait for their new stock to come in. It finally arrived at the end of last week. Now I just need some yarn &#8211; I have some in my stash that I want to use, in red, black, white, and yellow, but I also need some grey, blue and green.<\/p>\n<p>The melodrama goes up in less than two weeks. I&#8217;m not particularly excited at this point, but then, I hadn&#8217;t wanted to direct to begin with. I wanted to be nice and rested when auditions for Children of Eden came along. Ah, well. We do get to use the theatre space as of tonight, which is a week earlier than we&#8217;d expected, so that&#8217;s nice. Even though we don&#8217;t get to do any set building as yet (the Children&#8217;s Theatre are still officially in the space), at least the actors will get a feel for the dimensions and the acoustics.<\/p>\n<p>I went downtown to watch the fireworks last Friday for the first time since coming to live in Waco. The closest I&#8217;d come to this before was hanging out with friends in one of the Baylor parking lots when I was an undergrad and setting off some of our own little ground based fireworks and then watching the big display from a distance. It was quite fun. I hung out with Beth and the 92.9 tent; and Eileen came and hung out with us too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just started working on Anne of the Island for <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\" target=\"_blank\">LibriVox<\/a>. I had been working on Mr Hogarth&#8217;s Will and Angelina, but I just couldn&#8217;t get into them and I kept procrastinating and not doing any recording at all. I&#8217;ve turned Mr Hogarth&#8217;s Will into a collaborative, and started up Anne as my new English solo. I feel sort of guilty abandoning Hogarth, especially because no one has shown any interest in it in the nearly two weeks since I turned it collaborative. But I&#8217;ve also started recording more often now that I&#8217;m working on a project that interests me. If no one picks up any of the chapters, I&#8217;ll probably do one here and there just to keep it alive. Oh, and for the first time since, I think, my second project, someone beat Ans to signing up to PL one of my English solo projects!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still working on Angelina too (more enthusiastically since I started Anne). Spanish is so under-represented in the catalog, that I feel it&#8217;s my duty to contribute as much as possible, both in solos and collaboratives. I&#8217;ve currently got three collaborative projects going &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=14504\" target=\"_blank\">part 6 of Aesop&#8217;s Fables<\/a>, Jose Mart\u00c3\u00ad<span class=\"postbody\"><\/span>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=13989\" target=\"_blank\">La Edad de Oro<\/a>, and I took over part 2 of <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=10172\" target=\"_blank\">Don Quijote<\/a> from Gesine when she needed some time off. Angelina is only the third solo Spanish work in the catalog, and one of the other two is mine as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started working on baby projects for T. I&#8217;ve already made a little panda hat. I still need to buy eyes for it, but otherwise it&#8217;s finished. The other project is going to be a pullover with a train on it. 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