so the time between jobs is quickly coming to an end. it's amazing how quickly a month can go by. i had so many things i planned on doing/should have done that are nowhere near. oh well. life goes. on. I need to start packing. which is goign to be interesting seeing as my room is a mess. a vile mess. lol. have i unpacked from camp? nope. have i worn pants in 4 months? not really. so i don't even know what fits/i don't want to pack any. it's an issue. seeing as pants are kind of important in theatre. tech. i'm goign ot see how much i can get off wearing leggings and long shirts and t-shirts etc.

i'm irritable today. probably because I don't want to do much and I'm not sure how amped I am about leaving home/starting this new job. we'll see. hopefully it will be good.

so i haven't updated in way too long. i need to work on keeping this more up to date. maybe i'll make it a resolution to be a daily thing.

i'm currently in boston's logan airport waiting for my 7 am flight to orlando to meet up with 9 of my amazing camp counselor co workers from this summer for 5 days to go to disney and enjoy the florida goodness. It was a really spontaneous decision for me which is rare when it comes to trips, because i love to have each little detail planned out to the minute. it's an ocd thing. i get anxious when i'm travelling. it can be a problem, i like to know every detail of every moment of every day. i have no idea what i'm doing. no idea where i'm sleeping (exact details) it's going to be an amazing romp! and I packed the lightest i think i ever have in my whole life and i'm really really proud of myself; 1 bag (21" upright rolling!) and a pillow and blanket and backpack so good. and nohting is crammed into a plastic bag. go me.

what else.

as some of you know i worked at kingsley pines summer camp all summer and it was, without a doubt the best summer of my life thus far. there are no words to describe how amazing it was and all the amazing campers i had the pleasure of meeting and the incredible counselors and staff i got to know and become friends with. being out camp sucks. there's no longer food cooked for me, a bell to tell me when it's time to do something else or the ability to dress up like a character from dr seuss or disney or history or a pirate... i mean, i could do the dress up bit but it would be a lot of work and i'd look kind of ridiculous not to mention that once i started i wouldn't be able to stop and i would have way more clothes than is necessary. hahah. i digress.

im just hanging loose and easy until sept 29th when i go on tour with chamber theatre company which should be great. then come january im thinking about bouncing around to visit people then 80-98% sure of moving to nyc or the nyc vicinity. and if not there portland oregon or burlington. so there's that a very brief run down of what's going on right now. woo hoo...

may i suggest this is the best part of you life.

camp x2!

so camp continues to go well. it's raining. a lot. like way too much. it feels like it never stops raining. ever. it's cold and wet and i keep asking myself... where is summer? when will it come. we've had approximately 6 days of sun since campers have gotten here. that's almost 5 weeks people. craziness, obnoxiousness.

i just bought rainboots though. and they're coming in by mail so hopefully.... hopefully... by the time they get here the rain will have stopped. fingers crossed.

other than that, jewelry is going great i love teaching it (most days) and i love doing it and getting to hang out all day and doing crafts is just like christmas. this is honestly the best job i have ever had in my whole life. i love it. yesterday i got paid to go bowling. eat ice cream and play board games. you can't beat that, you just can't.

other than that. not much is new. i feel like i might be getting sick with blows. but i'm pretending it's not happening bc i don't want to be sick. so i will not be sick.

i miss everyone from home and school and etc. and the only thing that does suck about camp is that it's really hard for me to find/make time to call people. it's a little annoying because i want to. but it just keeps getting pushed aside. and it's not good.

anyways. im going to go back out and experience this lovely rainy cold maine day. hope everyone is doing well.

camp #1

hey all. im trying to update more. camp is going well. it's been a week since the campers have gotten here, and it's been going really well. it rained for a while and was pretty miserably cold which had the campers pretty down and made doing anything much besides putting on 8 layers and curling up under all of my/our blankets.
teaching jewelry has gone well. it's intimidating but i've actually been really enjoying teaching. it's frustrating sometimes because there's a point that no matter how many times or ways i explain something they still don't get it. but at the same time, when they do get it and are interested it's 10x's better and totally worth it.
i also got an awesome new north face vest for 50 bucks yesterday at the north face outlet im pumped i guess it retails at around 82-120. woot woot! there's also a really sick store around here called mexacali blues that has the coolest clothes in the world. it's all awesome hippy clothes and sick awesome nastiness. in love. i will probably spend almost all of my money there. that and being really close to ll bean and all the cool outlets and two awesome bead shops. let's see how much money i keep from my paycheck. hahaha.
i have a job in september. woot woot. call/email me if you want to know what it is. but it's nice to know i have employment when the summer's over. especially in this economy (etc etc blah blah blah) so hoorah.
so other than that, not much is new. food here is great. the kids are great. my campers in my cabin are great. things are all around pretty freakin awesome. we're watching pirates of the carribean in the staff lounge right now, it feels like i ahve so much time off. it's great, a total change from theatre work. woot woot. alright off i go. call me/write me/email me.

camp address

hey all!
so hopefully I won't be so lax as I was on tour. We'll see. I'm at Camp Kingsley Pines this summer as a camp counselor and jewelry making instructor, should be wicked fun. Maine is beautiful, and it's fun being at camp, even though it's just staff training this week. the summer looks promising.
send me letters and packages!
my address is:
my name (michelle obvi)
51 Coughlan Cove Road
Raymond Me 04071

I don't know how many pictures I'll be posting and as with before any opinions expressed on this blog are explicitly my own and not in any way that of Kingsley Pines.
bell goes. off i go

back in new england

wow i suck at updating this i'm sorry.

so things have been up and down. we've been all over the place and it's been awesome i'm finaly in new england again. i've missed it. it's ncie to be back.

i got to go up to burlington for a little over 48 hours. it was awesome i got to see both hello dolly at the flynn and professor wellwrights library at smc. it was awesome. being back in vt made me really happy.

i'm in ithaca ny now. got to drive past my exit on rte 90. it was aweome, but also sad bc i didn't get to stop.

anyways i was planning on writing more. but i lost my motivation.

2nd hawaii post

hey all. so i figured i'd post my second post about hawaii, even though i'm already back on the mainland.

so yes. load in took forever, i helped hang the lights and the strand lbx board is officially the worst board ever created and I hope to never see it again. I know that doesn't mean a lot to you all, but it does to me and I had to put it out there.

After load in we went to an amazing place and I had some of the best sea food ever. It was a nice end to a relaxing day.

The shows went well and after the shows on monday I rented a paddle board for 2 hours. A paddle board is a surf board that you stand on and suprise suprise have a paddle and row yourself around. a lot harder than it looks. i fell off alot, alot alot. i was too scared at first to try and catch waves, but after the 1st hour i was feeling better about it and stayed in for another hour. in my second hour i caught 2 waves, it was AWESOME and so worth every minute of falling off. some day I will paddle board again, and actually catch waves. yay.

problem with paddle boarding was that the next day my uppper legs were in so much pain ! omg, my muscles were KILLING me. it was a little ridiculous. like sore to the touch, could barely bend over or sit down and stand up. took 2 whole days to go away even with stretching for at least an hour every day. craziness.

after that we went to maui. maui was pretty cool, but i didn't get to do much, went to a movie with one of the actors (fired up, hilarious) as well as on the last day checked out this town calle paia, where i will officially move someday. I will move to paia, get a little dog, a surfboard/paddle board, a motorcycle and sleep either in a hammoch or a mattress on the floor or a tent somewhere. so if anyone wants to join, let me know. oh i also would love to open a coffeehouse/bakery/bead shop while i'm there if i can't work in theatre. sounds like a plan right?

so at the end of the day Hawaii=awesome. i loved the warm weather, the ocean everywhere, the breeze, the laid back attitude of island living. i'd love it there. so that's it. now i'm in west virginia, huntington. staying at a best western for a few days shaking off this jet lag, well i think. so that's it. i'll update again when anything exciting happens.