stuff and things

I have some Sports Nights icons now. I seem to be going through a textless phase of icon-making. Anyway, I think I shall use this as my directing icon, because it is the control room and Dana is kind of like a director, in a TV news sort of way. I wish I could give orders straight to my actors' ears in the middle of a play soemtimes, that's for damn sure. Anyway, last night was the first rehearsal for one of the two short plays I'm directing as part of a new works festival in June, and oh, bliss. It's been so long since I've directed my own damn show, I almost forgot how happy it makes me. I mean, first rehearsal, so some awkwardness, and getting the cast sorted out, and flying by the seat of my pants as always, but that's part of what makes it fun.

And tomorrow I'm leaving work at noonish to get on a plane and fly home for Passover, which makes me very happy indeed. I've missed NYC. Family shall be, as always, stressful and argumentative and endlessly entertaining, and there will be seder, and possibly catching up with old friends, and a day and a half off of work, and respite from the general suckiness and loneliness that has been my life in Chicago of late.

I think, secretly, the best part of moving to D.C. will be taking me that much closer to home. Not my parents, necessarily -- we get along much better when we only see each other a handful of times per year -- but I really am an East Coaster, and more specifically a New Yorker, at heart. Chicago's a great town, it's entirely possible I'll move back eventually. But it's not home.

In other news, I started reading Kushiel's Dart a couple of days ago, and I'm loving it to bits. Although every now and then it hits me that I'm reading incredibly kinky smut at work. :D

more west wing

Just watched "Bartlet For America". I realize Josh/Donna is the ship to end all ships in this fandom, and I like it well enough, but y'know, so far I really, really like both Cliff Calley and Amy Gardner, and am looking forward to watching the Donna/Cliff and Josh/Amy work themselves out.

Which, in terms of my mental health, is probably better than being a rabid Josh/Donna shipper this early in the game.

I'm also starting to get into CJ/Toby, mostly because there is a lack of Danny Concannon in this season. Also, I'm pretty sure I've already read every halfway decent CJ/Danny fic ever written, which is kind of pathetic.

Unpopular opinion: Sam is my least favorite character. I don't actively dislike him -- well, most of the time, anyway. He just doesn't do it for me at all. I'm kind of looking forward to him being replaced by Jeremy Josh Malina's character in S4, so he can stop irritating me and taking up too much screen time.

Also, I'm sorta kinda possibly writing CJ smut. Um.