Monday feels like a really long time ago. We had visitors from ALC Mosaic (who decided to come to school even though they were on spring break), a visiting week student, Tomis 🙂 , and some parents, so things were extra busy. Like four-field-trip-week busy.

Which is how I prefer things, but cramming alll that living into a few days seems to warp how I remember time.

Like in Memento! Ok, not really. But @timotree screened Memento today, because he saw it recently for the first time and was excited to share/talk about it with people here. I watched what I could between poster-drawing, skit planning with @charlotte , and an ice skating field trip (brilliantly suggested by @lillaw, who coached @failspy and I while skating circles around us). I did notice the notes @ryanshollenberger and @timotree were taking on the film, intending to discuss it with @nhoopee during their cooking class. Part of me really wanted to stick around for the discussion, but I’m glad I went outside to trudge through the snow and laugh while attempting to skate. Also, now I’m more familiar with Laskar (the skating rink) and so will feel more confident bringing a big group there next week.

Yesterday, we didn’t do acrobalance, because Yoni was in Israel and people here were suffering from various aches and pains. Charlotte and Javair played with me a little bit, but I noticed that I missed the challenge. Next week, I’m going to either recruit someone to practice with me for an hour or go to a yoga class after school.

It worked out that Yoni wasn’t in, though, because my friend Craig visited to offer two theater-based workshops. Craig has been a close friend of mine for years, is a professor at the university (in Pennsylvania) that my sister now attends, and has contagiously passionate about theater since forever. He offered a theater workshop where @timotree @thewitchqueen908 @failspy @lillaw @fireballdeath @ryanshollenberger @charlotte and I explored audience-actor-stage dynamics, practiced deepening our awareness of and responsiveness to our fellow actors, played with dynamically introducing our selves, and performed snippets from Hamlet’s speech to actors on how to act. [Videos will be posted when I’m not sharing internet with everyone else trying to blog.] Interestingly, the bit I got was about how actors should trust their intuition, support each other, and suit their actions to their words…ALC philosophy much? 🙂 After, Craig offered a philosophy of theater discussion, and when I left the room he was teaching Javair a structure for improv clowning.

Monday it occurred to me that our wall art needs updating, but Monday I was super busy with business meetings, brainstorming sessions, internet-y things, and a Spawn Point upgrade discussion. Tuesday and Wednesday there were field trips which left school quiet(ish). I stayed back to let other adults have adventures, so I worked on new posters both those days. One pair of posters illustrates the outcomes of the Spawn Point Upgrade discussion (aka: Why do we Spawn?). The other pair plays with words, characters, and ideas from the card game Coup which may have surpassed Werewolves as group-obsession-inducing card game of ALC-NYC. It felt really good to do multi-step drawing projects, and I found myself inspired with lots of new ideas for changing the walls. I’ll probably make more posters between ice skating and pickle making (as per @thewitchqueen908 @agilealfie and @likeaboss ‘s request) next week.

<3 and snowdrops