After the fun of reading week comes the pain and agony that is finals week. Of course there is some relief from the non-stop studying: Naked runs, impromptu A capella concerts, and midnight breakfasts. However, this is the week when Yale looks like Yale. Meaning that every spot in every Library is taken. I haven't seen some people for a week who have been camping in the Silliman Library, on the other hand I've seen many people I never see because they've actually come back to study.

There's really not much more to say about finals really, so I have decided to post two more photos on the photoblog for your pleasure. The Tony Blair photos aren't great since I was a mile away and it was dark, but it seemed noteworthy. Finally I stepped outside one night to see a glowing sky and took some pictures of that. I've included one, it seemed appropriate to include Bass Library in the picture to show that everyone really is studying non-stop (except to update their blogs). This will be my last post of the semester, so enjoy the break. I might post some good photos from break, or painful stories of trying to fly home through a snow storm. Otherwise, till next semester!

Last night brought the end of Gossip Girl and the true end of Boston Legal. It seems like TV just does not like me. I start watching Las Vegas, it ends (Eventually started up again). I discover Star Trek: Voyager (My perfect show), it dies. Finally, Joan of Arcadia died without so much as a sensible ending.

Back to the present, Gossip Girl (A Yale Tradition), wraped up this season. The episode was worse than an ADD 5-year-old in a candy store. It literally worked a sweat trying to pack in as many awkward, melodramatic, cliche-packed moments as possible. I suppose it was the reason we all watch Gossip Girl, but still. How many people need to die, get married, elope, have abortions and breakup in one episode to make it good?

As for Boston Legal, nothing could do justice to the show (or what I've seen of it) better than that finale. Alan's monologue was stunningly indicative of the show's style. Preposterous, but 100% founded. As Jerry says of Alan, "there will never be anyone like him." I read an article about the last episode that confirmed my beliefs, that Alan and Denny are perhaps the best duo ever created by a television series. It is simply fitting that they try to get married, and in full Boston Legal style, make a courtroom-public-statement about the potential ramifications of what their doing. But to top it all off, to be married by a man in a fishing vest on the supreme on a dock in the middle of nowhere, is the only way to end that show.

Well I'm in post-show depression stage right now. It's finally over and it was by far the best show I've worked on yet. Basically the people were just amazing and the show was fun. Despite the fact that it was a play, there was a good amount of singing and dancing, so we recorded a soundtrack. It features all the singing, some comedy, and the indie songs from in between scenes.

The YDN initiation was fun and featured me singing the "Ode to Acetaminophen", after that I snuck out to go to our improv show. It was a very very solid show and lots of fun. Of course after this weekend, now it's time for me to write my paper. So today I grabbed some books and sat down to start. It will be a long week, but I'll make it through. Till then!

No updates for some time now, but I'm back. Thanksgiving break was a cruelly short-lived tease before finals, but it's finally dawning upon me after finishing my first class of the semester (minus the final...minor detail).

The good news is that this weekend should be awesome! Friday is an on-campus VQ show which should be awesome! In addition, it is opening night for the play I did lighting design for, "Speech & Debate". Finally, it's also initiation for YDN, meaning that I will no longer be known as Contributing Photographer, but rather Staff Photographer.

Speech and Debate goes up this Friday at 8, then runs Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 and 9:00 both days. It takes place in Nick Chapel (theater in Trumbull), which is a smallish space seating 50-60 people. It has 20 dimmers, and 24 lights. Nice little place really. Naturally I took a set of pictures that can be found on facebook. For more about my lighting design read on!

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