Tuesday, 31 March

March is over and so is Shakespeare. I was quite happy to finish up with the piece, the class was nice and everyone was impressive, it was all quite lovely and I didn't find myself bored at any point. It flew by. Thanks for fun times, kids!

Catch-up!!

Hm, it seems I haven't posted in a while. Oops...

Well, let's see.

Tech week flew by, Eva arrived, the show opened (and is going quite well so far), we had a raging opening night party, we had the M&C semi-formal...

Things are happening like crazy. I'm almost done my book, I have to get my TRAC application in by 4:00 Wednesday, we're presenting Shakespeare tomorrow...

Yep, life is pretty wild and pretty great. I'm loving my days off from R&G. Will dwell in tomorrow as well... mhm...

Oh, and class registration is Wednesday. How about that!

P.S. Here is David Byrne interviewing himself as a promotional for "Stop Making Sense."

Weekend, 14/15 March

Oops, I forgot the weekend! I often forget the weekend, but this one I didn't drink enough to forget. Let's see, let's see...

Run-through Friday night, then Joe's for St. Patty's, and Tim never showed up, although his "entire crew" (that's us) was there without him. That was a good time, drank hot chocolate and ate green jello and finally moved to a little beer at the end.

Some thesis work Saturday (I think...?) followed by Nibroc (very nice, so impressed by Adam who I haven't seen before except in R&G rehearsals as I missed House of Yes). Hung out at Amy's with the lot of them I hadn't seen in about a week, watched Louis CK a lot after a game of Settlers finished, then moseyed homeward... ended up having a drink at Katie's and doing dramatic readings from Cosmo.

Sunday, I think I did more thesis work, but I truly can't recall... I think I went to the Bistro with Megan and Eric, because I hadn't seen them in a long while... did that on Saturday too maybe, this past week was very Megan/Eric-less... Asher came in at some point, either Sunday or Monday... damn, the whole weekend is a blur, I really can't recall it. Ah well, I think what happened Sunday was I ended up at the studio late at night. But I'm not sure about that. Shrug.

Tuesday, 17 March

No class. Instead went with Erica to Dick Blick for thesis supplies. On the way back, noticed a sign for a barber shop offering free beer and quick service. A difficult offer to pass up, but Erica had to get back to Zoellner for a fitting. When we returned, we ran into Chris, and I told him about this wonderful dream-like barber shop... and he said, "That's it, let's go." So we did. So we got hair cuts and free Yuengling and a good conversation with a pretty cool guy. The barber shop is on Emaus Avenue, down past 145, on the right. Look for the "free beer/quick service" sign. I heartily support it for any hair-cutting needs! Support your local business and free-beer distributor! ...Also, the suspended mirror-walls the owner designed are fucking sweet.

Here's a link from two weeks ago or so, I thought I'd post it now:

ThruYOU

Thursday, 12 February

Excited to work with Hilary and present the (in)famous "All the world's a stage." Also, I think I'm a pretty fine bower, if I do say so myself. Which I do. Say so. So there.

Tuesday, 10 March

Damn shit hell, is it the tenth of March already? Color me bamboozled (which is a fine blend of orange-red, delicate, with touches of umbers and rusts... there's no doubt a Crayola crayon that could indicate to you its exact nuances).

Late to class today, and unprepared. Aaah! Spring break took a lot out of me, which is opposite of what it is supposed to do, but I'm not so much in support of these long breaks anyways, I don't see why we can't just keep classing it up, my momentum was going and everything and then just, stop.

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See how that interrupted the whole flow of what I was doing? And it was uncomfortable? Yup, that's pretty much what spring break was like.

Liked warm-ups though, got me awake, yaaay, and the packet was good, although I felt a bit annoyed by the "voice"... it just seemed so stilted, a tremendously failed attempt at "Elizabethan conversational" which was just overwrought and laborious. The information contained therein, however, if you could crack that ugly shell, was delicious like the meat of a nut. Yum yum. I'd say something about creamy protein, but following so fast after meat and nut, you'd all get ideas in your head, and I wouldn't want to spoil your dinners.

Sooooo... excited about my old friend Bill Shakes, I think this project will be lots o' fun, and I look forward to it with kid-in-a-candy-shop eyes. Those bulging ones with the slight tear-drop of joy ringing down to the bottom and glistening, and then the bottom lid twitching a little in the intimations of juvenile ecstasy. Let's get at it! Hi-ho Shakespeare, away!!

Spring Break

Went home for a few days. Saw UCB Harold night in NYC with a bunch of people. Watched a shitload of Scrubs with K. Perry.

Thursday, 26 February

Both sad and relieved to be done with Electra. Everyone was very impressive. Great class, and on into spring break. Had a nice lunch with Katherine to make it semi-official. Pub club on Thursday, had my fair share... also two pitchers with Hilary on Friday following rehearsal. Yeehaw... and now it's snowy (Monday the 2nd). I suppose I'll update again near the end of spring break. Going to watch the Futurama movies at some point, do lots of bookwork, breathing work + personal monologue work, read Albee's Seascape, read As You Like It, and get offbook for R&G. Also going to improv show tomorrow. It's shaping up to be a fun spring break, self-motivated accomplishment and the loneliness of the long-distance runner... yaaay!