dear anonymous
Yes, yes. I hear ya. Time for a new post. It's just that my absence this week has been proportional to the amount of stuff going on at work. Last night, for example, I sat down to dinner at 10:30pm! I've already mentioned that we have one theatre production in the works, "The Peacemaker," which is being directed by a visiting American professor. This play is still in rehearsals, but also involves coordinating with the National Theatre, where the show will premier on April 23rd, and dealing with the costume designer, the set designer, and the poster designer, too. Apparently, it's a full-time job to get a show ready for stage...
The problem is that no one here can work full-time! The British director for the UN Memory Project play arrives in Pristina tomorrow. The play is written, thankfully, but needs more editing (today's project) as well as translation into both Albanian and Serbian. To make matters more complicated, as if it wasn't enough for my little office to be involved in two simultaneous large-scale projects, we haven't had a lot of luck finding professional Serbian actors to audition for the Serbian cast... They all seem to have left for Belgrade. Oy. I guess I'm simply nervous about how we will manage with both productions on such a tight timeframe. I know that everything will likely be successful in the end, but worrying about all the details now is exhausting :)
I will be able to relax more on the weekend, though, because I'm planning on going to Lake Ohrid in southern Macedonia for a few nights with a friend. A four or five hour-long drive from Pristina, and quite close to Greece, I have been hearing for two solid months about this amazingly beautiful UNESCO world heritage site that I absolutely must visit. I'll keep you posted. Over this past weekend we managed to organize an office field trip to Rugova, a striking gorge that runs through the mountains near Kosova's eastern border with Montenegro. While I was slightly disappointed that we didn't do any real walking or exploring -- I'll have to go back in the summer, anyway -- the drive, the waterfalls, and our leisurely lunch there were gorgeous, pun intended :)
Otherwise, tomorrow I must return a cat I've been cat-sitting to a friend who was out of town for two weeks. The cat's name is Matz-Matz, which is the Albanian equivalent of cat-cat in the "here kitty kitty kitty " sort of way. Matz has been good company, but she has a bit of a foot fetish... She likes to bite them! Normally I would use water (like a spray bottle) to stop a cat from doing something bothersome, but Matz is impossible: she actually loves water! It seems natural to me for cats to like dripping faucets and other such apparently entertaining things, but I've never known a cat who doesn't even flinch when it gets wet (or soaked, for that matter). I have found Matz-Matz curled up on more than one occasion in my tiny bathroom sink, sitting in a small pool of water, and she has also tried, literally, to get in the shower with me. Basically, she's crazy, and in Albanian you'd say "cuckoo" (with emphasis on the "oo" sounds).
Hmm... But then again, that's how I feel about this entire upcoming week: cuckoo.
The problem is that no one here can work full-time! The British director for the UN Memory Project play arrives in Pristina tomorrow. The play is written, thankfully, but needs more editing (today's project) as well as translation into both Albanian and Serbian. To make matters more complicated, as if it wasn't enough for my little office to be involved in two simultaneous large-scale projects, we haven't had a lot of luck finding professional Serbian actors to audition for the Serbian cast... They all seem to have left for Belgrade. Oy. I guess I'm simply nervous about how we will manage with both productions on such a tight timeframe. I know that everything will likely be successful in the end, but worrying about all the details now is exhausting :)
I will be able to relax more on the weekend, though, because I'm planning on going to Lake Ohrid in southern Macedonia for a few nights with a friend. A four or five hour-long drive from Pristina, and quite close to Greece, I have been hearing for two solid months about this amazingly beautiful UNESCO world heritage site that I absolutely must visit. I'll keep you posted. Over this past weekend we managed to organize an office field trip to Rugova, a striking gorge that runs through the mountains near Kosova's eastern border with Montenegro. While I was slightly disappointed that we didn't do any real walking or exploring -- I'll have to go back in the summer, anyway -- the drive, the waterfalls, and our leisurely lunch there were gorgeous, pun intended :)
Otherwise, tomorrow I must return a cat I've been cat-sitting to a friend who was out of town for two weeks. The cat's name is Matz-Matz, which is the Albanian equivalent of cat-cat in the "here kitty kitty kitty " sort of way. Matz has been good company, but she has a bit of a foot fetish... She likes to bite them! Normally I would use water (like a spray bottle) to stop a cat from doing something bothersome, but Matz is impossible: she actually loves water! It seems natural to me for cats to like dripping faucets and other such apparently entertaining things, but I've never known a cat who doesn't even flinch when it gets wet (or soaked, for that matter). I have found Matz-Matz curled up on more than one occasion in my tiny bathroom sink, sitting in a small pool of water, and she has also tried, literally, to get in the shower with me. Basically, she's crazy, and in Albanian you'd say "cuckoo" (with emphasis on the "oo" sounds).
Hmm... But then again, that's how I feel about this entire upcoming week: cuckoo.
posted by melissa at 2:08 p.m.
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