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Am I going crazy or is our thread gone?
RokofAges75:
Glad the forum is back online!
I couldn't remember the details but read the gist of what happened with NaNoWriMo after they announced they were shutting down. It's too bad that they let it fall into chaos like that.
Wow, Electra is a Nick project I've never heard of! And I even have that biography - the one with the red cover, right? Good for you for finding it! How big is his role in it? Does he have a speaking part? My favorite early Nick acting project is "Reach for a Book," the L-I-B-R-A-R-Y video. It's hilarious! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTIo5INXwtg
Mare, I've been looking forward to reading all about your experience. And what an experience it was! Sounds like it was worth it for the Kieran interaction, but some of the other stuff sounds like a nightmare. I saw your tweet and was wondering what the deal was with your pants! I'm glad you had another pair to wear to the show.
That is infuriating that the hotel had no ADA rooms and didn't communicate that with you. If they were all sold out, they should show up that way on the website and not allow you to book them. I believe it does happen all the time, though. A couple I follow on YouTube, Cole and Charisma, just posted a video about that a couple of weeks ago. They had reserved an ADA room with a roll-in shower weeks in advance and called the hotel after booking to confirm that they did, in fact, have a room with a roll-in shower reserved. They were assured they did. The day of check-in, they called the hotel again to double check that they still had their room and were again told that they did. Then they arrived at the hotel and were told that their room was no longer available because the people staying in it the night before had decided to extend their stay, and there were no other rooms with roll-in showers available. They also said that this happens a lot, and even calling to confirm the reservation doesn't guarantee that the right kind of room will be available once they get there. Absolutely frustrating and so very wrong! I'm glad you were able to make it sort of work for you for one night, but sorry you experienced that.
Also sorry for your Amtrak woes! I'm glad the trip there was mostly okay, but the trip back sounds terrible. I can't believe how rude people are. The woman who sat next to you and wouldn't move to let your sister sit by you? What a bitch. It's not like she paid for that seat specifically, like on an airplane. You should have started asking her for help with stuff until she decided to move LOL.
After all that, I'm glad the play was worth the trip! I loved the videos you posted on Twitter. So cool that you got to meet all those actors and have such great interactions! Like I said on Twitter, they all seemed genuinely nice. I'm sure you were on cloud nine after your encounter with Kieran!
I bet you were exhausted by the time you got home. So many highs and lows. Sorry to hear about the steps! It would probably be good to look into getting a ramp so you can leave the house without having anxiety about getting up and down the stairs.
mare:
I’ll respond in more detail tomorrow, but before this site goes away again, I wanted to link my videos so this way those of you who do not to Twitter can see them.
https://youtube.com/@egypt18015?si=2N4iBchi8PsV1T9h
When you go there, they are all under the shorts. It opens on my Jean birthday video.
mare:
Yay! It's still here. I'm not sure what's going on with this site. It's annoying.
My Kieran interaction definitely made the trip worth it. I almost booked it for today instead of last Friday and I'm so glad I didn't because Kieran missed the play for the first time ever last night and I can't even imagine the amount of anxiety I would have had traveling all the way to NYC today knowing that. It's a little worrying because of how late he cancelled. The outside door still announced he was going to be there. It wasn't until about 20 minutes before showtime that the understudy found out he would be going on and it was finally announced. Alan Ruck was also there in the audience, which tells me he really did plan on being there. Hopefully he's okay and or Jazz because now there's also speculation that she might be pregnant, because when Kieran got his Sardi's portrait unveiled, Bill Burr mentioned this was an incredible year for him both professionally and personally. And yay for him getting a Sardi's portrait. That's a big deal.
Anyway, we all know how that goes. When one of them suddenly no shows or something. All the negative thoughts that fly. Hopefully he'll show at tonight's performance.
The hotel was the worst! Some of my friends recommended I write up a yelp review about the experience, so I did that, and it made me feel better. It really does amaze me how ambivalent people are about things like that. I mean, I guess I get it, because until you find yourself in this situation it is really hard to understand all the little hinderances there are throughout the day for people who are handicapped and especially wheelchair bound. I honestly don't know what I would have done if I was completely immobile. There were so many times during this trip that I was forced to get out of the chair to be able to get into someplace or get down from someplace. The sidewalks in NY for instance. Even at the end of every corner, there wasn't always a natural slope to go down. Not that we had time to go exploring, but to get across the street to the theater, there was nowhere to even cross that didn't involve going over a step, even a small one. And the train as well. Even though there was a handicap accessible bathroom, an actual wheelchair would never fit in there so I would have to park the chair and then walk inside.
I'm figuring out it's not my legs that's the problem, but my arms. I don't have the strength I used to. So, pulling myself up is getting increasingly difficult. I went to sit outside yesterday, and I almost wasn't able to get back inside because there's one big step up into the backdoor. By big I mean normal sized. I can do small ones with no problem; it's the big ones that are killing me. I wasn't able to really push myself at all in the chair either. I have wrist weights so I'm going to start using those to see if it helps.
I am so glad we live in an era where it's easy to document your experiences. I love that I can watch those videos whenever I want. I swear I watch it every night before I go to bed. lol Although with that comes the paranoia about that damn dumb but smart bracelet. I was so taken in by him, I didn't think to make sure he understood that reference as a Roman quote. The way he read it and nodded, the more I watch it I'm like...hrmm did he think that was a backhanded insult? lol but he tends to have a good memory and if he got the Blork one, He had to remember that line, right? Hopefully. He was wearing my Blork bracelet when he got his portrait at Sardi's.
Today is the first day I feel like myself, so I'm actually going to try to write a bit. I really hope the forum stays up. Now that we have people active again on here, I don't want it to disappear again!
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: mare on June 09, 2025, 10:57:29 AM ---Hey guys! Here is my rather long review of my trip to NYC!
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Mare, I also loved lurking on your video. What an amazing experience -- I'm so happy for you! I think a lot of shows are busy at the stage door like that depending on the star power of the show and/or the performers. Like I would imagine something like Hamilton or & Juliet right now with Joey Fatone in it is crazy busy like that, but maybe not something like Avenue Q? lol I'm so glad that the extra 20-minute wait ended up positively! How exciting that he was still wearing your bracelet a few days later!!
That hotel and train experience is wild! I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. That Amtrak from the city to upstate is the worst. And now I feel vindicated in that belief outside of the horrible hangover I had that day. lol Which I realize is not the same thing, but I did complain to my husband about the size of the bathroom door for ADA accessibility. For the hotel, could also be worth it to call their corporate customer service number? If for nothing but the cavalierness of "it happens all the time."
In addition to the wrist weights, you could also look at getting a resistance band and working your way up to hand weight exercises. If PT is part of your doctors appointments (or if its not), your care team may have some good suggestions on working on arm strength.
ETA: And on the bathroom thing. It's because you weigh: is my day going to be worse if I stop what I'm doing right now to go the bathroom or if I don't stop what I'm doing to go to the bathroom? I usually find that 9/10, my life will be easier if I just put off going to the bathroom. Add to that that for whatever reason, being in the midst of teaching usually makes me forget I have to go to the bathroom anyway. :shrug:
--- Quote from: backstreetsbabyg on June 08, 2025, 10:45:52 PM ---I have some answers to what went down with Nanowrimo...
I discovered another piece of Nick's acting career... I was reading through the official backstreet boys biography that released in 1997 (Man, I love the internet archive) and in the Nick chapter it mentions an indie art film called Electra.
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That's what I'd heard as well. When your main mission is working with kids, you really have to do everything you can to keep that safe and above board. I think a little more transparency in their actions could have helped a lot as well, but it would be difficult to start a new version with the way it ended.
Always love a good Greek mythology-based project. Add that to my watch list this summer.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on June 08, 2025, 01:07:03 PM ---Sounds like you've done plenty!
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I should get paid more for this full time job. The other day, I got yelled at because I kept insisting the letter "eluex" was actually "W, X" in the alphabet song -- the audacity! And for some reason, the argument that I'm an expert on early literacy does not work on a Toddler. ::)
Just brushing up on my French and Japanese! 16 days so far!
I have a couple of things in-progress that I'm bouncing around... PBox, snails, that 5 POV thing I started a few summers ago. Also considering a horror-movie watch and dropping a snippet in on you and Rose. We'll see. ;) I did take my computer on our little vacation and opened it exactly zero times, so I'm doing great! But I have been percolating a lot on Nick's new album and how it resonates with me and my thoughts.
Is it because they see phones and fun and computers for school? I know they're basically tiny computers these days, but my thumbs can't type nearly as fast as my fingers on a full keyboard. Even when I had a tablet instead of a computer for a couple of years, I used a Bluetooth keyboard when I wanted to type anything -- a story, an email, lesson plans, whatever. I watch my husband do his weird two finger typing and think that's what the kids are doing. How do they get anything done, let alone in a timely manner. Do schools still have Mavis Beacon? Are the kids just swyping or using auto-predict or are they leaving themselves voice to text notes? I need an AMA with a teenage author. lol
RokofAges75:
I'm glad the forum is back!
Hopefully all is well with Kieran and his family. Good thing you went last week, just in case!
Good idea to write a Yelp review for the hotel! I'm sure other people who are looking for accessible rooms will appreciate knowing about your experience. That's crazy that there weren't even curb cuts at every intersection in NYC. Of all the ways to add accessibility, that seems like it should be one of the easiest ones to do. But you're right; until you've been in that situation or known someone who is, you don't even think about it.
Trying the wrist weights sounds like a good idea, as does Dee's PT suggestion. Hopefully you can find some simple exercises to help you maintain and build on the function and strength you have.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on June 13, 2025, 12:39:56 PM ---I have a couple of things in-progress that I'm bouncing around... PBox, snails, that 5 POV thing I started a few summers ago. Also considering a horror-movie watch and dropping a snippet in on you and Rose. We'll see. ;) I did take my computer on our little vacation and opened it exactly zero times, so I'm doing great! But I have been percolating a lot on Nick's new album and how it resonates with me and my thoughts.
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All this makes me happy to hear! Especially the horror movie plan! You sound just like me whenever I'm between projects, bouncing here and there and everywhere. It always takes me some time to settle into a new story (or back into an old one I started and didn't finish). Keep percolating! No pressure to write on vacation though. I can never focus well enough to get much done when I'm away from home.
What are your favorite tracks from Nick's album? My favorite of the new ones is Storms. I could definitely see that one inspiring a story someday.
According to comments I've seen on Reddit, there are definitely teenagers who type all their fanfics on their phones. Maybe they're better at typing that way because they grew up with it, whereas we didn't have smartphones with full keyboards until we were adults. The phone keyboard is just too small for me; I make so many typos that I would be incredibly frustrated trying to use it as my main writing device. We've been one-to-one with Chromebooks at school since Covid, and I use Typing.com with my students for keyboarding lessons and practice. I have them type all their published pieces in writing, so they get faster at it over the course of the year.
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