Hello!
I hope you have missed me! My new show CONCRETE PIGS is officially on and I am genuinely having fun doing the show! This was my main goal for this show as last year I struggled to find a way to settle into an entire hour on my own last year.
You can buy tickets here and I would love you forever if you bought a friend! The best thing you can be in this world is a tastemaker, and I think the show is really funny (averaging over 300 laughs on the clicker), it talks about something interesting without perhaps offering enough solutions and it keeps getting better*.
You can also follow me on Instagram, if you feel so inclined. It really helps to have evidence that people might care about what you are doing, and I don’t think I am too annoying on there.
An Endless Addition.
I was a single gal for most of my 20s, which was largely fine. Even when being single sucked (mostly affordability-wise), I held onto the belief that I needed to wait for a partner that would add something to my life. It wouldn’t be worth being with someone who was there but their presence made things different (busier) but no better. I wanted someone who would challenge me and we could lead independent lives that were better off for being together.
And that belief paid off! I now have a partner who perfectly captures the vibe I wanted - Joan Didion and her husband walking their own preferred routes around Central Park every day but making sure to meet up before they left to walk the last section home together. But I fail to apply the same consideration to the other things constantly being added to your life. I didn’t account for the fact that at a certain point, you hit a limit on how many things you can pile in and you have to start letting things go.
Doing comedy is something I fell into when I moved to Melbourne and thought an improv class would help me make friends. Since then it has slowly been a force taking over the rest of my life. First, you add another improv class, and then you are training with an indie team, and writing sketch shows to perform at festivals all before you get a momentary reprieve to decide to go into stand-up and do even more stuff alone (shows, touring, podcasts, newsletters, social media!). I love it! I keep telling myself I love it at least. I love the problem-solving element of writing jokes and tweaking shows and trying to convey what you want to say to other people who don’t live inside your head. I love having this wide variety of projects to pinball between.
But eventually, you add so much onto the plate that you like that you look down and realise you have served yourself an inedible mess of buffet goodness. I’ve always lost my appetite if I am faced with too big a portion to tackle and it turns out that work is no different. Once Comedy Festival is over (please buy tickets! The show is fun!) I want to spend some time doing some genuine life planning. How can I try and maximise the parts that I like and minimise the bits that I don’t which currently seem to take up the vast majority of my time? If anyone has any solutions that don’t involve putting your trust in a ‘life coach’ then I am all ears.
I’m all for setting up a life that isn’t traditional, but like anything I think you have to fail at it an untold number of times before you can get it right.
Links
The return of Foodstagram? Not sure if this is linked to the resurgence in carousel posts taking priority for Instagram engagement.
Loved this newsletter on how to have a Joan Didion Easter Dinner Party.
Rich people don’t cover their windows and I thank them for that - let me look in and dream of living your life!
An investigation into the toxicity of workplaces. Haven’tt finished reading yet but I don’t think it will talk about my issue of spending so long saying hey to everyone that I never get any work done.
Can’t wait to have the time to tackle this long read on Post Secret and what it told us about anonymous sharing.
Love Mindy Kaling, but a new show about rich young professionals in Murray Hill feels like propaganda for the workplace at the moment.
This is the newsletter! It has been wrung out of my tired comedy festival brain so if it doesn’t make sense I apologise. If it does check out and you liked it, please share it with a friend!
Love you! See you soon my Prudes xx