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leigh-kelly · 4 years ago

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The Nanny-Chapter 2

Defeated by her inability to sell any makeup, and her total failure at faking her way into a job as a nanny, Brittany returns to her parents’ apartment in Flushing. Her mother is in the kitchen cooking dinner, and she feels exactly twelve years old as she sinks down onto the couch. This definitely isn’t where she saw herself at nearly thirty, and when she looks at her phone to see text messages from Sugar complaining about working with Quinn, she just throws it to the side. Her life is in total shambles, and all she needs is some dose of good luck to turn it around.

“Ma, what am I supposed to do? I dropped out of college to work in Dani’s stupid bridal shop, I have no real skills, no girlfriend, and I’m living with my mother.”

“It’s no picnic living with you either, kid.” Whitney Piece opens the doorway between the kitchen and the living room and holds a raw chicken in her hands. “You’re really butting in on mine and your father’s private time.”

“Ew, Mom, gross. I don’t need to hear about that. I’m having enough of a terrible day.”

“I say you march back down to that Ms. Lopez’s mansion and give her a piece of your mind.”

“What’s that even going to do? She didn’t do anything to me. If I’m going to give anyone a piece of my mind, it’s going to be Dani Fucking Harper for cheating on me and firing me. She’s the one that got me into this situation.”

“You’re the one that got yourself into this situation. I warned you about Dani when you started dating her. You wouldn’t let me look you up with Jeannie’s nice son Artie who would have married you and made you a millionaire. A millionaire, you hear me? He just sold his first tech company for five-hundred million dollars. But instead, you chose Dani with the bridal shop.”

“Why do you have to make everything worse? I went on a date with Artie, and he so wasn’t into reenacting my Lady and the Tramp fantasy and kept talking to me like he was some kind of rapper. It’s not like I expected Dani to cheat on me.”

“She was shifty, I would have expected it.”

“Gee, thanks Mom.” Brittany rolls her eyes, and then, from where it landed under the couch when she tossed it, Brittany’s phone begins to ring. She stoops down to pick it up, and she furrows her brow when she sees a strange 212 area code light up the screen. “I guess I should take this, it’s probably someone calling to tell me that I have to sell my kidneys in order to survive the next month.”

“Only sell one, or else you’ll die, and your father and I will be responsible for paying back that ten thousand dollars in student loans you took out.”

“You’re just full of hope today, aren’t you?” Brittany sighs and presses the accept call button on her phone. “Hello?”

“Hello, is this Miss Pierce?”

“Um, yeah, who’s this?”

“Santana Lopez, we met earlier.”

“Right, how could I forget the gorgeous millionaire with the big mansion?”

“Gorgeous millionaire, I’m listening.” Whitney sits down next to Brittany, and she shoos her away.

“I’ve reconsidered what I said earlier. You seemed to have a way with Tyler, and I’d like to hire you on a trial basis, assuming you can move in today and start immediately.”

“Move in? It’s a live-in position?”

“Well yes, is that going to be a problem?”

“I’ll be there as soon as I can pack my bags. Oh, thank you, Ms. Lopez, thank you! You won’t regret this.”

“I have some reason to believe that I will…but I’ll see you this afternoon.”

In less than an hour, Brittany packs up everything she owns and is in the back of a cab headed toward Manhattan. She thinks she probably should be nervous, but she’s not, she’s totally got this and she’s going to show Ms. Lopez that she’s totally wrong about thinking she’s going to regret hiring her. Kids absolutely love her, she’s sure that she’ll win over Tyler with his fake blood, Abigail with her whining and Valerie with her sad eyes. It’s going to be a total piece of cake, she just knows it.

“Miss Pierce.” The butler opens the door when she gets there and hurries out to the cab to go help her with her things. Most of the stuff in the apartment she shared with Dani wasn’t hers, so she really just has four suitcases chock full of clothes and a big Rubbermaid bin full of shoes.

Brittany looks around the house and it’s surprisingly quiet. Something about it reminds her of The Sound of Music, her absolute favorite comfort movie when she was a kid, and she eyes the drapes, hoping she doesn’t have to teach herself how to sew in order to make the kids play clothes. Shaking her head, she moves over to the side table and reaches out to touch what is probably a very expensive crystal vase when she hears footsteps and then retracts her hand.

“I’d appreciate if you didn’t touch the antiques.” Santana puts her hand on her hip and cocks her head to the side. “And I expect I won’t have to watch over you while you’re watching the children.”

“Why do you have antiques in a house full of kids anyway?”

“We taught them from a young age what was theirs to touch and what wasn’t. I’ve never had a problem before.”

“Even with Tyler?”

“Well—” Santana begins and then is stopped by the sound of screeching coming into the room.

“Mommy! Look at my dolly! Tyler ripped her head right off and put it in the toilet bowl!” Abigail cried.

“I did not!” Tyler tumbles into the room. “She’s a big fat liar. She did it herself just to get me in trouble.”

“A new doll for Abigail will be coming right out of your allowance, young man.” Santana furrows her brow and looks between the children. “Both of you, say hello to Miss Pierce.”

“Miss Pierce? No way, I’m just Brittany.”

“I’d prefer if the children called you Miss Pierce.”

“And I’d prefer if they called me Brittany.” Brittany challenges. “Listen, Abigail, I’m an expert doll fixer. Why don’t you come upstairs with me and we’ll get her all taken care of?”

An hour later, Abigail’s doll is fixed, Tyler is distracted with a new bucket of Legos that Kurt—the butler, now that Brittany has learned his name—brought out and Brittany is almost finished unpacking. She’s not sure where Valerie is, though she thinks she should probably be aware of that, and she wonders exactly how one nannies a fifteen-year-old. It’s not like she needs dolls fixed or lessons in not using ketchup as fake blood, but Brittany is sure she’ll learn on the job.

“Miss Pierce.” Kurt knocks on the door to her bedroom and Brittany cringes a little at everyone in this house and their formalities. “Dinner is served.”

Brittany makes her way down the stairs and into the dining room, but when she gets there, she realizes that there are only four places set. She wrinkles her nose a little and looks to Kurt, who is puzzled by her expression. He holds out his hand toward the kitchen, apparently assuming that’s where she’ll eat and Brittany’s eyebrows raise.

“The nanny normally eats in there on her own while Ms. Lopez has meals with the children.”

“Well that’s ridiculous.” Brittany goes into the kitchen and picks up the plate set for her, carrying into the dining room. “Isn’t a nanny supposed to be part of the family? I’ll be eating with them.”

Valerie comes into the dining room first and gives Brittany the same strange look that Kurt did. Brittany is in utter shock that any other nanny put up with this and she simply unfolds her napkin and puts it on her lap like she’s seen people do in movies. At home, she mostly used paper towels as napkins and can’t really understand why anyone would think cloth napkins were a better idea, but she guesses she may as well learn how to fit in with these rich people.

“You know you’re supposed to eat in the kitchen.” Valerie tells her, standing behind her own chair.

“Maybe that’s how it used to be, but if I’m going to spend all my time with you, I think I should at least be able to eat with you.”

“Miss Pierce.” Santana comes in, followed by Abigail and Tyler. “You’re—”

“Supposed to eat in the kitchen, I know. I—” Brittany tries to think of the most appropriate response to her new boss. “I think it’s better for the kids to see me eating with the family, then they know they should respect me.”

“Well. Alright then.” Santana sits down.

Dinner is the weirdest thing Brittany has ever experienced. Not a single one of them talk. She keeps trying to start a conversation, get everyone to at least pretend they’re at the table with other people, but no one takes the bait. She watches Tyler hide his broccoli in his napkin, watches Abigail obsessively sort her food, watches Valerie eat more slowly than she’s ever seen a human being eat and watches Santana look down at her phone every thirty seconds. Then, just when she feels like she’s about to explode, Rachel Berry barges into the dining room with a flourish.

“I just got off the phone with Brody Weston, he wants to have dinner with us tonight.” She shrieks. “This could be our chance to land Broadway’s biggest star. Lin Manuel Miranda doesn’t stand a chance against us if we get him!”

“Let’s go.” Santana stands up, pushing her plate away. “Miss Pierce, I expect you’ll be alright getting the children to bed?”

“You’ve got it. What, like ten o’clock?”

“No. More like eight o’clock. Valerie can stay up until nine-thirty.”

“Right…” Brittany shakes her head, thinking maybe Valerie is way too old to have a nine-thirty bedtime, but she’s not going to argue with her boss. “Uh, have fun.”

“Miss Pierce.” Rachel’s voice gets high and shrill. “We are not doing this for fun.”

They leave the dining room and Brittany looks around at the three kids. Abigail looks crestfallen, Tyler looks like he’s planning something and Valerie just looks completely aloof to the entire situation. Maybe it’s weird, but Brittany wants to know more about Ms. Lopez. She’s living in her house after all and if feels weird that they’ve exchanged maybe one-hundred words. But she’s not exactly about to ask, the woman was weird enough about her sitting at the dinner table with them and even weirder about the kids calling her Brittany, so she thinks if she actually asks something personal her head will explode.

“So…what’s up guys?” Brittany asks. “You know there’s no law that you have to be quiet at the dinner table, right?”

“Mom would rather we are.” Abigail pipes up. “She’s usually really busy doing work on her phone.”

“Well guess what, she’s not here, so talk away.”

Brittany isn’t surprised that she’s still met with utter silence, but she rolls her eyes a little. It’s clear that these kids have no idea how to just be kids and she thinks of The Sound of Music again. Maybe she does need to learn how to saw so she can make them play clothes out of the curtains, bring them to Central Park and let them run around and scream. It seems like it would do each of them good, probably Tyler, especially, since he seems to need to get into mischief to actually express himself.

After dinner is done, all three kids go to their rooms. Brittany is pretty sure that she hears Valerie’s door slam, but she can’t be sure. Figuring this is just what they do, Brittany goes into the kitchen to try and get some dirt out of Kurt. She could see a gleam in his eye when she met him earlier in the day and she just knows he’ll be willing to spill some gossip.

“So, what’s the deal Kurt? Tell me all about these people.”

“Miss Pierce—”

“Okay, let’s just put an end to that right now. Brittany, okay?”

“Brittany. Fine. But seriously, you’ve been here like three hours and you already want me to gossip?”

“I know you live for it.” Brittany laughs a little. “So, tell me everything there is to know about Ms. Lopez.”

“You got me.” Kurt rolls his eyes at himself. “Thank God I finally have someone to talk to, I wait all month for my butler’s association meetings to just gab about everything.”

“I knew it! So, what’s her deal?”

“She’s trying to be this big-time producer, she’s like, insanely jealous of Lin Manuel Miranda, you can’t even bring him up around her, she’ll go absolutely apeshit.”

“But Ms. Berry—”

“Yeah, she does it all the time, I think she thinks it motivates her, which, honestly, it probably does. But basically, they’re always having these investors fall through every time they think they’re going to have this big hit. They passed on Dear Evan Hansen, so, there’s that.”

“And Ms. Berry? Are they like…together?”

“Oh my God, disgusting.” Kurt feigns a gag. “But actually, Ms. Berry wishes. She follows Ms. Lopez around like a little puppy dog and is basically ready to throw herself in her arms at any given second. It’s so gross to watch, but it’s like a car wreck, I can’t look away.”

“And what about the kids’ dad?”

“Mama, actually. Do you have like no gaydar? I could sense you were one of us from a mile away.”

“Hey…I’m bi.” Brittany crosses her arms over her chest.

“Still one of us. And she died two years ago, she was hit by a car and it destroyed Ms. Lopez. Miss Abigail was only three, she doesn’t remember her at all and Mr. Tyler was four so he has a few memories. Miss Valerie is still angry.”

“I can see that. She has barely said two words to me.”

“She doesn’t want to get attached, you don’t even know how many nannies we’ve gone through around here.”

“So why did Ms. Lopez decide to hire me anyway?”

“Desperation?” Kurt chuckles. “And also, I may have planted the seed in her head.”

“Why?”

“Because you looked like a kicked puppy when you showed up here. So now that I’ve told you about her, what’s your deal.”

“I mean, I got dumped and fired on the same day…by the same person, so that’s pretty much how I ended up here. The only thing I know about kids is from hanging out with my little cousins, my mom is desperate for me to get married, that’s about it.”

“Hmm.” Kurt looks off into the distance and Brittany furrows her brow.

“What?”

“Huh? No, nothing, I was just thinking about something.”

“C’mon, you have to tell me!”

“You’ll find out in due time, I just know it.”

#the nanny #brittana

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lukasnol-blog · 5 years ago

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blackkudos · 6 years ago

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Phylicia Rashad

Phylicia Rashad or Rashād /ˈfɪliːʃəˈrɑːʃəd/ (born June 19, 1948) is an American actress, singer and stage director. She is known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–92), which earned her Emmy Award nominations in 1985 and 1986. She was dubbed "The Mother" of the African-American community at the 2010 NAACP Image Awards.

In 2004, Rashad became the first black actress to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, which she won for her role in the revival of A Raisin in the Sun. Her other Broadway credits include Into the Woods (1988), Jelly's Last Jam (1993), Gem of the Ocean (2004), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008). She won a NAACP Image Award when she reprised her A Raisin in the Sun role in the 2008 television adaptation. She has also appeared in the films For Colored Girls (2010), Good Deeds (2012), and Creed (2015).

Early life

Rashad was born Phylicia Ayers-Allen in Houston, Texas. Her mother, Vivian Ayers, is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated artist, poet, playwright, scholar, and publisher. Phylicia's father, Andrew Arthur Allen, (d. 1984), was an orthodontist. Rashad's siblings are jazz-musician brother Tex (Andrew Arthur Allen, Jr., born 1945), sister Debbie Allen (born 1950), an actress, choreographer, and director, and brother Hugh Allen (a real estate banker in North Carolina). While Rashad was growing up, her family moved to Mexico, and as a result, Rashad speaks Spanish fluently.

Rashad studied at Howard University, graduating magna cum laude in 1970 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She was initiated into the Alpha Chapter during her tenure at Howard University.

Theatre

Rashad first became known for her stage work with a string of Broadway credits, including Deena Jones in Dreamgirls (she was Sheryl Lee Ralph's understudy until leaving the show in 1982 after being passed over as Ralph's full-time replacement) and playing a Munchkin in The Wiz for three and a half years. In 1978, she released the album Josephine Superstar, a disco Concept album telling the life story of Josephine Baker. The album was mainly written and produced by Jacques Morali and Rashad's second husband Victor Willis, original lead singer and lyricist of the Village People. She met Willis while they were both cast in The Wiz.

Other Broadway credits include August: Osage County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Gem of the Ocean, Raisin in the Sun (2004 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play/Drama Desk Award), Blue, Jelly's Last Jam, Into the Woods, and Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. Off-Broadway credits include Lincoln Center’s productions of Cymbeline and Bernarda Alba; Helen, The Story and Everybody's Ruby at the Public Theater; The Negro Ensemble Company productions of Puppet Play, Zooman and the Sign, Sons and Fathers of Sons, In an Upstate Motel, Weep Not For Me, and The Great Mac Daddy; Lincoln Center's production of Ed Bullins' The Duplex; and The Sirens at the Manhattan Theatre Club. In regional theatre, she performed as Euripides' Medea and in Blues for an Alabama Sky at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Other regional theatres at which she has performed are the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and the Huntington Theatre in Boston.

Rashad was the first black actress of any nationality to win the Best Actress (Play) Tony Award, which she won for her 2004 performance as Lena Younger in a revival of the play A Raisin in the Sun by playwright Lorraine Hansberry. She was nominated for the same award the following year, for Gem of the Ocean. Several Black women have won in the Best Actress (Musical) category, including the late Virginia Capers, who won in 1973 for her portrayal of Lena in the musical adaptation of Hansberry's play, entitled Raisin. Rashad also won the 2004 Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a Play for A Raisin in the Sun by tying (split award) with Viola Davis for the play Intimate Apparel.

In 2007, Rashad made her directorial debut with the Seattle Repertory Theatre's production of August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean. More recently, in early 2014 Rashad directed a revival of Fences, also by Wilson, at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, which ran to generally positive reviews, and continued an ongoing focus on Wilson's work, including a well-received production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom that she directed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in late 2016.

In 2008, Rashad starred on Broadway as Big Mama in an all African-American production of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by her sister Debbie Allen. She appeared alongside stage veterans James Earl Jones (Big Daddy) and Anika Noni Rose (Maggie), as well as film actor Terence Howard, who made his Broadway debut as Brick. In 2009, she appeared as Violet Weston, the drug-addicted matriarch of Tracy Lett's award-winning play August: Osage County at the Music Box Theatre.

From March 17 to May 1, 2016, Rashad played the lead role of Shelah in Tarell Alvin McCraney's play Head of Passes at The Public Theater. Her performance was positively reviewed.

Film and television

Rashad received a career boost when she joined the cast of the ABC soap opera One Life to Live��to play publicist Courtney Wright in 1983. She is best known for the role of attorney Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. The show, which ran from 1984 to 1992, starred Bill Cosby as obstetrician Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable, and focused on their life with their five children. In 1985, Rashad co-hosted the NBC telecast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with Pat Sajak and Bert Convy.

When Cosby returned to TV comedy in 1996 with CBS's Cosby, he called on Rashad to play Ruth Lucas, his character's wife. The pilot episode had been shot with Telma Hopkins, but Cosby then fired the executive producer and replaced Hopkins with Rashad. The sitcom ran from 1996 to 2000. That year, Cosby asked Rashad to work on his animated television series Little Bill, in which the actress voiced Bill's mother, Brenda, until the show's end in 2004. She also played a role in the pre-show of the Dinosaur ride at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom theme park as Dr. Helen Marsh, the head of the Dino Institute.

Rashad played "Kill Moves" wealthy mother on Everybody Hates Chris on December 9, 2007. In 2007 she appeared as Winnie Guster in the Psych episode Gus's Dad May Have Killed an Old Guy. She returned to the role in 2008, in the episode Christmas Joy.

In February 2008, Rashad portrayed Lena Younger in the television film adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Kenny Leon. Starring core members of the cast of the 2004 Broadway revival at the Royale Theatre of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play, including Audra McDonald as Ruth Younger, and Sean Combs as Walter Lee Younger. The television film adaption debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast by ABC on February 25, 2008. According to Nielsen Media Research, the program was watched by 12.7 million viewers and ranked #9 in the ratings for the week ending March 2, 2008.

In November 2010, Rashad featured as Gilda in the ensemble cast in the Tyler Perry film For Colored Girls, based on the play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange. Rashad explained in an interview with Vibe Movies & TV in 2010, that "I saw the original Broadway play. I thought it was amazing how such a story that wasn’t pretty was poetry. Usually poetry is about lofty things and this was the poetry of speech and the movement of everyday people. I found a little bit of it off-putting to tell you the truth, because it was so angry when I saw it. And I think Tyler Perry has added an element here that wasn't in the original stage production, and that is the necessity for taking responsibility for one's own self otherwise you are just living to die. That is where he wrote the line [in the film], "You gotta take some responsibility in this. Otherwise you are just living to die".

In 2012, she starred in another Tyler Perry movie Good Deeds. Also in 2012, Rashad played Clairee Belcher in the remake of Steel Magnolias (the role originated by Olympia Dukakis). This version has an all African American A-list cast, including Queen Latifah as M'Lynn, Jill Scott as Truvy, Condola Rashād as Shelby, Adepero Oduye as Annelle, and Alfre Woodard as Ouiser.

In 2016, Rashad was cast as a recurring guest star in the role of Diana DuBois in the third season of the Lee Daniels-produced Empire television series on Fox.

In 2017, Rashad portrayed Bishop Yvette A. Flunder, pastor of The City of Refuge Church in San Francisco, CA, as past of the Dustin Lance Black mini-series When We Rise. Her appearance in show highlighted the compassion of the church, the commitment of its leadership and the loving home the church provides to minister in the tough, primarily African-American community in San Francisco.

Personal life

Rashad's first marriage, in 1972, was to dentist William Lancelot Bowles, Jr. They had one son, William Lancelot Bowles III, who was born the following year. The marriage ended in 1975. Rashad then married Victor Willis (original lead singer of the Village People, whom she met during the run of The Wiz) in 1978. Their divorce was finalized in 1982.

She married former NFL wide receiver and sportscaster Ahmad Rashād on December 14, 1985. It was a third marriage for both of them and she took his last name. They were married after he proposed to her during a pregame show for a nationally televised Thanksgiving Day football game between the New York Jets and the Detroit Lions on November 28, 1985. Their daughter, Condola Phyleia Rashād, was born on December 11, 1986 in New York. The couple divorced in early 2001.

Awards and honors

2003: Honored as Woman of the Year by the Harvard Black Men's Forum

2005: received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) degree from Brown University

2011: received an honorary doctorate degree from Spelman College for her work in the Arts

2011: named the first Denzel Washington Chair professor in Theatre at Fordham University, supported by a $2 million gift from the actor

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Factors to Consider When Deciding the Right House Painting Contractor in Weston

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— 💫 ROLEPLAY STATS

face claim: ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY

fandom ships: CHEMISTRY, MALES, FEMALES

previously: ( stellaweston )

verse: CAN YOU SEE THE STARS

— 💫 GENERAL INFO

full name: STELLA NOELLE WESTON

nickname(s): STELLS, STELL

birth day/sign: AUGUST 1ST, LEO

ethnicity: UNAVAILABLE

hometown: SEATTLE, WA

current location: BOSTON, MA

gender: FEMALE

preferred pronouns: SHE/HER

orientation: PANSEXUAL PANROMANTIC

religion: NON-RELIGIOUS

occupation: BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRAD STUDENT STUDYING ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE PHYSICS, PART-TIME PLANETARIUM ATTENDANT AT THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE, AND EVENT PIANIST AT THE RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL

— 💫 RELATIONSHIPS

parents: CAROLINE WESTON ( mother ), RICHARD WESTON ( father )

sibling(s): BRODY WESTON ( twin brother )

significant other(s): SINGLE

children: NONE

pet(s): NONE

best friends: DEPENDENT ON VERSE

enemies: DEPENDENT ON VERSE

— 💫 PHYSICAL TRAITS

eye color: GREEN

hair color: BROWN

height: 5′5″

weight: 130 - 140 LBS

body build: ECTOMORPH

body modifications: VARIOUS TATTOOS, LOBE PIERCINGS, SECONDARY LOBE PIERCINGS

notable physical traits: SLIM FIGURE, DIMPLES, FRECKLES

— 💫 PHOBIAS & DISEASES & ADDICTIONS

phobia(s): N/A

addiction(s): GALAXIES, ROMANTIC COMEDIES, BLINK 182, BOXER BRIEFS, FRENCH TOAST STICKS, BUBBLE TEA, FEMINISM, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, ROSES, ASTRONOMY JOKES, GILMORE GIRLS, STAR WARS, TEEN TITANS

mental disease(s): ANXIETY

physical disease(s): ASTHMA

when was this diagnosed?: ANXIETY ( 17 ), ASTHMA ( 5 )

— 💫 PERSONALITY

[ pos. ] — LAID BACK, ADVENTUROUS, KIND

[ neg. ] — SENSITIVE, INVASIVE, IMPATIENT

*all information is relative to the verse, including significant other(s), children, best friends, enemies, occupation, hometown, and phobias & diseases & addictions. most of the physical traits will remain the same and will be altered if the face claim is changed. personality is also relative to the verse, though less likely to change.

Growing up in the Weston household had been like growing up in a royal English court. The rules were tight and restricting, expectant that the children of Richard and Caroline Weston would be of the utmost importance in their small society. As much as you could call the Medina neighborhood of Seattle high society. It wasn’t the Upper East Side, but it liked to think that it had enough merit to be compared to America’s prized piece of land. The Weston children were groomed to rise above their small segment of the Pacific Northwest and take on the world with the kind of business sense that had put Richard Weston at the top of not only Seattle’s social ladder, but the company that his father had built before him. It was a big investment for a business that didn’t sit inside of one of the country’s largest business hubs, but it thrived regardless.

Something about this way of growing up never sat well with Stella, the youngest of the Weston twins. She would put on the pretty dresses and flowers for parties to appease her mother’s judgmental glares - but there were always high tops hidden under hems, boys boxer briefs under the mini skirts, and smudges of dirt under the fingernails that were always painted and kept in shape. There was nothing about Stella Weston that screamed she wanted to be a part of the family fortune or an heir to the throne of a company that she couldn’t believe in. She’d rather spend her days outside on a skateboard with her friends from Beacon Hill and West Seattle. Or curled up in bed reading comic books, star charts, and Hawking’s Grand Design or the science of black holes. The parties with boys that stared at her chest and girls looking to be her friend for her name bored Stella out of her mind. It just wasn’t a lifestyle that she ever wanted.

As a child and as she grew older, Stella loved music and the piano. It was a love that her parents couldn’t understand, as they believed in the work of a business and not that of an artist. They appeased her with a keyboard on her twelfth birthday, though she knew it was mostly to keep her dirty hands off of their prized grand piano in the foyer. It become one of the most used objects in the house and one that annoyed her family when she decided to pull out the headphones and grace the halls of their large home with her musical tracks. For the most part, she’d taught herself how to navigate the keyboard but extracurricular music classes at her school helped her hone the skill beyond what she could do without help.

Another one of the loves Stella had come upon early was a passion for outer space, the stars, and the science of their lifespans. She’d spent more time climbing out of the window of her third story bedroom to sit on the roof and look at the stars than in meetings with her father or going to high end shops with her mother. She made telescopes out of leftover cardboard rolls as a child, laying back on the roof and gazing through the tubes covered with glitter and markers that smelled like bananas and strawberries. To her surprise, this interest was something that her parents encouraged. Not only did they consider this a sign of intelligence, but something that could be turned into a business venture in the future. This was a thought they’d had in mind even when she was a young child - she could be an asset to the family name.

At the thought of college and her future, Stella considered both of her great loves to take the lead for her future. Her parents pushed for schooling astronomy and physics, encouraging her to go into something that would be worth their time and money - something that could become an eventual asset to their family name. The Weston’s could be known as affiliates to a future scientist and merge business with NASA. So, with her acceptance into Boston University, Stella moved across the country at eighteen into a dorm room with girls that didn’t know who she was and the support of her parents in a career that she could actually love. Four years went by much faster than she would have liked - gaining and losing friends, learning what it took to work in the field, and spending part of her Junior year in Washington D.C. working in an intern position under a scientist at NASA that she’d only just managed to get into. She did it all without the presence of her parents but their money and support to become the best in her chosen field.

With graduation came the decision on where she would go - back to D.C. to continue her work there? Back to Seattle under the reign of her parents? Or staying in Boston, a city that she had grown to truly love with the promise of a job at the Museum of Science and an acceptance letter to enter into the Graduate program at her alma mater. Stella could no longer live under the influence of people that could only see her as a business transaction. She didn’t want to live in the house she grew up in, forced to attend parties and marry a boy of her father’s choosing. Stella wanted to be independent, graceful, and loved on all of her own terms. The thought of taking her own time, saving up her own money, and working outside of her parents control was exactly what Stella wanted for her life.

From her dormitory, she moved into Kings Terrace - all of the payments made with money she’d saved from her internship and the first paycheck she’d received working at the Museum of Science. Stella was six months into this living situation before she realized that the one big thing missing from her life, the one thing that she knew would make everything feel right, was music. She still played her keyboard; the one covered in Blink-182 stickers, rainbows, and nail polish that she’d prized since she was twelve. The audition for a position playing at the Ritz was much more difficult than she had thought, but she was lucky enough to snag the position with practice on a piece that she’d learned from videos online and music scores printed on colored paper. It was mostly an evening job at events and parties, working well with her early schedule at the museum.

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Delphi Construction Moves into New Waltham Headquarters

WALTHAM, MA–Construction management firm Delphi Construction, Inc. of Waltham and Cape Cod has to their their newly Corporate Headquarters on Bear Hill Road in Waltham, MA.

The 27,000 square foot building overlooking route 95 was purchased last year in order to bring Delphi’s northern operations along with those of sister company, Properties, Inc. together under one roof. An expansion and renovation of the company’s Cape Cod offices in Mashpee was completed over the Summer.

“We are thrilled to have all of our Waltham staff, including our construction operations and estimating/Preconstruction teams all together in one location,” said Delphi Executive Chairman and CEO Jake Simmons. ” I am confident that the synergy created by this move will bring additional benefit to our clients. I think I speak for the entire team when I say that, thanks to the outstanding design work of Davis Square Architects, this new facility is both visually impressive and highly functional.”

With a post-modern Industrial design, the space features exposed metal ceilings and black steel beams complemented by polished concrete floors. Most of the 18 management offices, located around the windowed perimeter of the building, feature floor to ceiling-height glass walls. This design consideration allows a tremendous amount of natural light to infiltrate the building and offers virtually unobstructed window views, even to those workstations towards the interior of the space.

The most recent renovations comprise nearly 7,000 square feet and includes offices, cubicle banks, workrooms and 3 conference rooms: Inman, Weston and Overland. Each is named in honor of past street addresses where Delphi has held offices over its 25 plus year history in Business.

While the conference room names may give a nod to Delphi’s history, the technology within them is nothing short of Futuristic. Delphi’s Ken Brooks, who oversaw the dramatic IT infrastructure improvements made as part of the project, called attention to the state of the art technology in the Inman conference room as being particularly noteworthy.

“It may be tempting to call these systems ‘A/V’ but that wouldn’t come close to doing the technology justice. The installed systems include a precisely tuned array of microphones and speakers in the ceiling along with an integrated, self-panning, self-zooming camera that dynamically responds and zeroes in on the current active speaker in any meeting. As a result we are able to create a high tech virtual conference room experience for remote meeting guests. This is highly efficient for our teams in the field who may be on any jobsite throughout the region. This technology allows them to virtually attend in a way that is almost as good as being here.” Brooks said.

Delphi plans future expansions and renovations within the building to correspond with growth.

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Hale Smith (June 29, 1925 – November 24, 2009) was a composer, arranger, and pianist. Born in Cleveland, he learned piano at an early age and played mellophone in the high school band. He played jazz piano in local nightclubs. When he was sixteen, he met Duke Ellington, who commented on his compositions. He was drafted and worked for the Army as an arranger for shows at camps in Georgia and Florida. After the Army, he studied classical music and composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music and received a BA and MA. His composition Four Songs won the first student composer award given by BMI. He moved to New York City and was employed as an editor at publishing companies. He worked as a jazz pianist and arranger with Eric Dolphy, Dizzy Gillespie, Ahmad Jamal, Melba Liston, Oliver Nelson, and Randy Weston and wrote incidental music for television, radio, and theater. With Chico Hamilton, he wrote music for the movie Mr. Ricco (1975). His compositions include The Valley Wind, In Memoriam, Beryl Rubinstein, Sonata for Cello and Piano, Contours for Orchestra, Faces of Jazz, Evocation, Ritual and Incantation, Innerflexions, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Solemn Music, Three Patterson Lyrics, and Dialogues and Commentaries. He wrote music for bands, choirs, orchestras, jazz groups, chamber ensembles, duos, and solo performances. He was a teacher at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University in Brookville and the University of Connecticut in Storrs. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CfYxrYmLc_AJl3CDUEnzjM9EqMZrkqmbOvE8l00/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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redcliffestoriesvicheybyrne · 6 years ago

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REDCLIFFE PRIDE by Vic Heybyrne.

Although having visited a number of magnificent places of worship, including the Cathedral in Sophia (Bulgaria), the Notre Dame (Paris) and a modern R.C. Cathedral in San Francisco, I maintain the ‘boasting rights’ (perhaps with a certain amount of bias) of being born, opposite the finest of them all – St. Mary Redcliffe Church.

My birthplace - 29 Phippen St. (situated with its ‘back-yard’ where the ‘Chatterton’ School facade today stands) enjoyed one of the best views of the church from its front windows and also the pealing of bells celebrating Empire Day (May 24th) each year, the date of my birth during 1926.

Memories prior to the widening of Phippen St. and Pile St. to form Redcliffe Way (hence moving the School front) remain vivid; – Railings surrounding the church – A ‘cascade’ of steps, unhindered by the building of a Crypt, which displayed the pageantry/spectacle of annual parades such as Lord Mayors Day/Rush Sunday and Armistice Day, in their full glory.

The latter was particularly memorable with ‘wire netting frames’ decorated with Poppies collected from the local people, adjacent the steps and the Remembrance service conducted amid these frames.

Other memories of the mid-thirties include the introduction of Rev. Swann, touring the surrounding streets in an open back car throwing sweets to the excited children* and at Xmas time distributing woollen blankets to the poor families.

*Perhaps in retrospect, mischievous children (myself included) grateful for any small gift, could be classed in modern terms as ‘street urchin’s’ (or as ‘arrr Ma’ in her local dialect ‘ould’ say, ‘arrd’nn kids’) who lived around the bend from the ‘elegant’ looking buildings that ‘fronted’ the church, in ‘rat infested slum clearance houses’ with primitive ‘facilities’ (no bathroom etc.) and the water obtained from a tap outside the backdoor.

Until Redcliffe Way and the Bridge were ‘opened’ allowing easy access to Queen Square, the only ‘green’ in the district was St. Mary Redcliffe churchyard and whether it was because this ground was considered more ‘sacred’, a common occurrence was local ‘kids’ walking the short distance to play in Temple churchyard.

Special memories of this ‘play’ area include the use of a wooden plank, together with a tin tray to form a simple ‘Slider’ from the top of a wall at the far end of the ground. (N.B. This wall, the top of which was heavily impregnated with broken glass to deter intruders, was the perimeter of the then ‘Pickford Removals’ yard).

Also remembered, is erecting a tent on the grass, made from bacon sacks (obtained from ‘Sellicks’ a firm in the adjacent road) sewn together with string, plus poles/canes obtained from ‘Greenslades’ (Brush manufacturers at the top of Thomas Street).

However, the main outdoor recreation for lads, apart from school activities, was being adventurous in the vicinity of the docks. - Often on a Sunday, ‘mooching’ from religious classes, climbing over/under the gates located in ‘Pump Lane’ onto the sidings and following the railway track, which was idle during the ‘Sabbath’, through the tunnel under the church to Guinea Street/Bathurst Basin and exploring the area.

To us ‘impoverished lads’, remnants of Sultana/currant fruit, Lotus Beans and over ripe Bananas etc. were ‘rich pickings’ from the ‘emptied’ railway trucks and barges on both sides of the harbour.

During the summer holidays it was usual to see ‘gangs’ of boys happily swimming in Bathurst Basin, or clambering over the ‘Old Jail’ in Cumberland Rd., which was a substantial building ruin, now severely deteriorated.

Also to see the enjoyment of young groups going further ‘afield’, following the railway track to Cumberland Basin and subsequently climbing down the side of the bridge onto the river ‘tow-path’ leading to Leigh Woods and the popular ‘natural slider’ – the rock surface slopes at the side of the railway tunnel, then constantly ‘polished’ by the local boys ‘wearing out’ their knee length trousers, and nowadays regularly used as a gallery for graffiti artists.

All of these activities were uninhibited by the concern of wandering without the company of adults. Another ‘adventure area’ closer to home, was an empty ‘mill’ warehouse in ‘Redcliffe Backs’. This large building, now the site of modern dwellings, was great fun with ‘manufactured sliders’, (chutes from floor to floor to convey sacks of produce) but importantly, avoiding the lower ones, that exited through the side walls to load wagons in the street or barges on the river.

My affiliation with Redcliffe is well established, noting that my father’s family home was in Phippen St. (his brother’s name is included on the church 1914-18 war memorial). Also my mother, (born during the year 1900) who together with four brothers and a sister were ‘raised’ in a cottage opposite the ‘Kiln’ (now featured as a restaurant in the nearby hotel), situated one side of the ‘Cow (slaughter) Yard’ off Prewett St. and their father (my grandfather) who subsequently lived in Thomas Street near the junction of Portwall Lane, until his death during 1950. – In addition, my two brothers and I attended nursery at St. Barnards Place, the Infant school in Ship Lane and the Junior/Senior school in Redcliffe Parade (my sister at Temple Colston) and I completed my ‘schooling’ at the age of 14 years, during May 1940.

Thereby creating ‘a firm bond’, which is still maintained by my continued association with ‘Old Redcliffian’s R.F.C. since 1948. Admittedly however, my well-founded loyalty was ‘sorely tempted’, when as a young boy, the ‘reward’ for attending ‘Freshford Lane Chapel’ (a large upstairs room which was situated near where the roundabout is now located), or ‘Counterslip Chapel’ situated behind ‘Mardons’ in Victoria St., was the ‘admission’ to Xmas parties (generally a lantern show, with a bag of sweets and an orange) and/or a ‘subsidy’ to go on the annual 6 penny Weston outings. Note: The most rewarding parties, which included presents for ‘poor kids’, were held annually for those attending with slight injuries (occasionally self-inflicted), the casualty dept. of the General Hospital.

Recalling my period at Redcliffe School, the principles were well defined; with early morning assembly overseen by roof beams engraved with the 4 ‘P’s. - Punctuality, Prayer, Practice and Perseverance, also the teaching of the 3 ‘R’s – Reading, ‘W’riting, ‘A’rithmetic, increased to 4 by an important discipline, Respect! Prior to major alterations, when the Mervyn King Hall and a large playground were built on the old Vicarage gardens, (approx. 1936-7) facilities/activities in the school were strictly limited. –Two extremely small playgrounds. – Wood and metal craft lessons held at Boot Lane, Bedminster. - Swimming lessons (dragged along on the end of a rope) at the Mayors Paddock Baths, Clarence Rd. - P.T. classes held in the Redcliffe Parish Rooms, Guinea St. and the ‘House’ Rugby matches played on a ‘black cinder’ type surface in the Quakers Burial ground, (which was subsequently reduced in length when Redcliffe Way was built).

Despite these severe restrictions, the ‘sporting and academic’ achievements were outstanding and I’m sure that these factors, together with the school principles, the strict discipline and the church support were the ‘solid foundations’ needed for the important ‘character building’ of maturing boys.

Summing up: I’m extremely proud to be, ‘Once a Redcliffe Boy, always a Redcliffe Boy’!

I even have a Certificate, signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, granting permission for my second marriage at St. Mary Redcliffe Church during 1984, as recommended by Rev. Frayne.

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Sarah was raised half at my house and half at her fathers’ parents’ house. Because of this, I don’t think she ever felt like she was a resident of my house, but rather a guest. This is evidenced by Sarah always asking if she could have a drink when she was growing up, instead of just opening the fridge and getting it. At 3 years old, Lily has already started opening the fridge – without me telling her to. This is saying to me that Lily feels she owns the fridge and has a right to open it, while Sarah didn’t feel the same way.

I got together with Sarah’s father after a breakup with my high school boyfriend. We had been together for 4 years, taken each other’s virginity, and planned to get married at some point – at least, until he decided not to. I had just quit college after a year and a half, my childhood pet died, I was the heaviest I had ever been in my life and I was diagnosed with clinical depression when he chose to bow out. He tried to ghost me. I had no idea what was happening. He had been living with me at my mother’s house for the past year when all of a sudden he didn’t come home. I didn’t know if something had happened to him, and with everything else going on in my life, I failed to recognize the signs that he was unhappy in the relationship. He was my best friend. The person I would turn to when things were too much for me – and he wasn’t there anymore. It was devastating.

He moved into an apartment down the road with a new buddy of his. We kept in touch for the next year, while I frantically dieted and exercised and tried to entice him to come back. I lost 40lbs. We occasionally slept together, which I took as a good sign that he would eventually realize that he missed me and we should get back together. But we didn’t. He kept me as a fuck-buddy, and when I’d had enough, I decided to find someone else. That’s when I found Sarah’s father…online…in a chatroom. That probably should have been my first red flag, but seeing as how my self-esteem was so low, and how he complimented me up and down about my appearance – something I hadn’t felt good about in a long time – I ignored the bells and sirens going off in my head and started seeing him. He was okay looking. Not hideous, but not what I would call attractive. I had convinced myself that I wasn’t meant to have a relationship with someone I was insanely attracted to, and that a quiet, domestic life taking care of a small family was an honorable, worthwhile life that I could lead. The whole thought now feels very Sarah Plain and Tall.

We rushed in. I got pregnant and had Sarah. Over the pregnancy, he showed his true colors. He was looking for a woman to wait on him hand and foot, then spread her legs whenever the fancy struck him, which was often. He was older than me, and came from a wealthy home. And he tried to make me feel inferior because of it. At that point, I didn’t have a college degree. He had two of them. I came from the poor section of Cambridge, MA and a broken, lower middle-class home. He came from Norway, with both parents still married to each other, living in a big house they owned in Weston, MA and his father owning his own successful software company. It was difficult not to feel like the “white trash” that he often referred to me as.

After I had had enough of his psychological abuse – and there were many, many instances of this abuse – I took Sarah, around 2.5 years old at the time – and moved into my mother’s house. What made the situation worse is that his mother had been Sarah’s daytime care provider while we were at work. We continued with that arrangement, but it was extremely uncomfortable when I had to drop off and pick up Sarah, sometimes having to deal with her abusive remarks. Why did I take all this bullshit? I was young and poor and while I couldn’t afford childcare on my own, I made too much money for public assistance.

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