Random Bits

So Ascendio is moving along. Tickets to the private WWoHP park event are on sale at a discount right now, so if you're going to get one I suggest you do so this month.

We're still accepting programming ideas - a lot of the informal programming is coming together - musicals and movies and wrock, oh my! Quidditch and live chess and fashion show and and and and... Again it looks to be a schedule full chock-o-block to the rafters with things to do at nearly every hour of the day and night. http://hp2012.org/

In slightly more ridiculous news I spent some time this past weekend using an online resource to learn how to fold origami flowers.

We have a co-worker getting married the week after we all get back from Paris in April. We will likely take her out at some point while in Paris to celebrate her upcoming nuptials. Last time we were going to do this in Taipei for another one of the client leadership, Coworker C and I spent an afternoon making a crown and a (pretty wonky) flowered lei out of cardboard, blue gaff tape, small round pink stickers, a couple of meeting lanyards, and extra blue paper. We had office scissors (read not very sharp, and kind of huge - no delicate cuts possible!), black sharpie markers, tape, and staples (and a sewing kit from one of the hotel rooms).

I am prepared! I can make a delicate origami flower wreath or something for Coworker A that will be lovelier than the thing I whipped together in an afternoon in Taipei on short notice and with no contemplating time.

I think I like the origami tulip the best because if you fold it correctly you get to "inflate" it and it is so damned cute. But the lilies will be the easiest to form into a crown of some kind, I think.

Yeah. Origami flowers. So not as difficult as they look!

...woke up today with a massive bloody nose. Going to bed feeling kind of nauseous. Lots of crap happened in between. Not the least of which I had to figure out how to make a "butcher's apron" look like the butcher is currently working hard. Brown and red and yellow paint, way watered down, and applied to damp fabric with glove-covered hands. Drip dry. I sang "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" while I was applying the paint.

At least my tub no longer looks like I've been sacrificing small animals. Or, y'know, maybe dismembering a corpse.

Went to rehearsal tonight and spent it sewing, fixing, making bits and pieces of costumes. I am so glad there are six of us working costumes. Because, wow. So *many* people in this show.