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Day 310 found us onstage at the Globe-News Center. Its entire inside of the hall turns itself into one big orchestra shell when the orchestra shell is extended. The color is inspired by the nearby Palo Duro canyon.

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Look... my hosts' back porch. On the first day of spring. Something wrong with this picture? I think so...

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Heading into tech week - here's a side view of our raked stage from stage left. In our last room rehearsal, we got a few minutes to wander around on the slanted stage, a vast difference from circles taped out on a flat floor.

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The happy sunflowers that decorate the similarly-themed kitchen at my host's house.

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Best. Game. Ever. Seriously - we had a riotously good time playing this game. This is a game night cast. If you want to play with us, you have been warned - no holds barred.

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Game night! This group loves board games - and its a lot of fun! We had a blast!

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On this day off, I did NOTHING until this time of day. In the evening. It was a gloriously lazy day off.

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How cute is this pup? He's really not a pup, he's 15 years young which is pretty impressive for a chow/shepherd mix. I love staying with hosts with dogs!

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Usually I can keep my allergies at bay with Flonase and Claritin, but Amarillo brought out the big guns and I had to resort to Visine as well. Hello, spring.

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Day 300 arrived! I can't believe it... so close I can almost taste it! Day 300 demonstrates some supplies I can't live out: Post-its. It's also a plus that these have lines on them (since my handwriting can be messy) and they're colorful!

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One fun thing about being in my line of work is the great variety of props (properties) that I am exposed to. Such pretty things like this lovely candleabra.

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First day of work means a very boring picture. I was printing out paperwork in prep for rehearsals.

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Isn't this a lovely view? Palo Duro Canyon, 2nd largest canyon in the US. Right here in Amarillo.

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I arrived safe and sound in Amarillo, TX and to my host house. I stayed with these folks last year and they were delightful. This time, I stayed downstairs and chose this charmingly decorated bedroom as "my own" for the three weeks I'm here. I can tell this daughter is the creative, artsy one.

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On the road again... a motel somewhere between St Louis, MO and Amarillo, TX. Merely a place to rest my head for the night - my poor, exhausted, quasi-ill self.

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This is what happens in our kitchen when mom makes a salad. Tom looks on with great interest, and Pippin can barely contain her enthusiasm and stands on her hind legs, balancing with a paw on the cupboards. Both hoping for a piece of lettuce (a treat in our house). This cuteness won out over some really stunning tulips that I bought to welcome mom home from a trip to her mom's.

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These aren't my roses, but my roommate's. I finally got to see her after a long time and she had just had one of her school shows and received these lovely flowers. As a photographer, roses fascinate me and I love to photograph them.

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How nice is it to be picked up by your dad at the airport after a blissfully short and pain-less flight, to be greeted by a face like this? There's nothing like coming home and having two brindle bullets running around, crazily greeting you.

This is Pippin after she'd calmed down significantly.

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There's nothing like the satisifaction of closing a show. This is the pretty lit stairwell that one can see outside the stage door. I'm not sure what building it is, but it sure is pretty to watch.

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One of my colleagues, in a past life, was a chef. We finally had a day off where we could all relax and he cooked a delicious meal of salmon with fennel and apples, a potato and cheese dish and yummy snow peas. It was SO delicious! Good times were had that night.

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These feet were very sore and tired after a very long tech week. Literally putting my feet up!

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Opening night flowers as creatively arranged by KS in an improvised vase: a tea kettle. Too pretty and too unique to pass up. Day 288 was a lovely day off.

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Part of the Memorial Wall on the set - happy opening night to us!

Personal Technology Debate

... or how I can't decide which I want more.

I want/need a Kindle. I know, you'd think being the Apple brat that I am, that I'd be all over the iPad. After a lot of research and debate with many people, the Kindle what more of what I need. Don't get me wrong - the iPad is a great device and I can't wait to see where it goes, but for me, right now, with the technology I already own (laptop, iPhone), the iPad is just not the right fit for me. I can, however, see myself owning one down the road.

I want/need the Kindle because I'm doing an awful lot of traveling, often with weight restrictions via the airlines. I want to be able to take many books with me without the weight. (I'm a voracious reader and when time allows, chew through books like they were candy).

But I also desperately want to replace my point-and-shoot camera. My old point-and-shoot is frankly pretty crappy for what I like to shoot (manual settings, low light, etc). But sometimes my DSLR is too intimidating, bulky, heavy, etc. The camera I'm drooling over the Canon G11. It's all I want in a camera, but much smaller and easier to carry around. It's no digital ELPH or any of those other really skinny, tiny cameras - but I could be really happy toting one of those around when I couldn't take my DSLR.

I kind of want both. But $-ily, its not quite possible. The Kindle I'm looking at is $259. The Canon G11 is $500. Unless I win the lottery, I don't think I'm getting both.

But which to get first?

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The day off before our show opened was spent at the movie theatre seeing "Shutter Island" and then an amazing dinner at Legal Seafoods. What a lovely day off - now if it only hadn't been monsooning out, it would've been PERFECT.

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My drink of choice on this show. I forget why we were out early enough to drop by the bar (since usually we drank in Chez AA/PR or KS) but we were also starving because good sandwiches were had with our drinks.

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These are some of the fake flowers on the memorial wall of our set. Obviously these captured my eye, which also means I also probably spent almost all day at the theatre.

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One thing I love about my job is seeing all the different theatres around the country. Not all operas are performed in opera houses - some are in theatres that had been burlesques or vaudvilles or even movie theatres.

This one is gorgeous, with amazing intricate detail.