Fun night out in Amsterdam

My friend M. is temporarily homeless. A couple of months ago she ended her relationship with her boyfriend with whom she owns a house. Since they can’t live together anymore and her ex hasn’t moved out yet, she travels around staying at friend’s places and attending houses of people that are away on vacation. This week she lives in Amsterdam. In a beautiful apartment in the city, at the Keizersgracht (betw. Utrechtsestraat en Amstel). For a bum, she’s doing okay, I would say...

This Friday I went to see her. She made me a lovely dinner. We drank and had lots of laughs. Later in the evening her friend My-K came over. M. already told me a lot about her, but I never really met her. Anyway, the three of us – we drank, smoked, went to bar at the Utrechtsestraat, drank and smoked some more and talked about... well, we mainly talked about My-K’s allergy to SM... Something to do with her last relationship, I won’t go into it right here.

Anyway, I decided not to go home tonight, but sleep over. The terrible sleeping couch was a nightmare for my back – which is still hurting after my fall two or three months ago – but it was worth it. A fun night out with no worries on my mind, that’s what is was!

(In the photo: me, My-K and M.)

Melodie

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned Melodie – the girl that signed me up for Children International (see “Ma.”). I put her photo on my blog. Yesterday when I was cleaning up my desk I found the registration form she filled in for me. And that has her last name on it. Her full name appears to be Melodie Sisk. And as I like to Google people…
I found out that she really is the artist she claimed to be. As a matter of fact she will be playing the role of Cherie in William Inge’s comedy play Bus stop that will be performed all through September at the Triad Stage theatre in Greensboro, NC. Good for her right?

This is what the Triad Stage website tells me about that funny girl I met in front of the Public Library in New York:
Melodie Sisk (Cherie) is making her Triad Stage debut. She was most recently seen in the Keen Company’s New York production of Pullman Car Hiawatha, playing Venus and Ten O’Clock. She’s a 2004 graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, where some of her favorite roles included Mrs. Loveit, Man of Mode; Agnes, Marion Bridge; and, Madame Pettypon, The Lady from Maxims.

Isn’t that cool? Here’s more. This is a picture of her in her role as Cherie. Please, if you are anywhere near Greensboro this September: Go See That Show!!! And say hello to Melodie for me.


Melodie as Cherie