It's been two weeks since I last really updated you on my life. But this is with good reason: I've been very busy. Between Equus and Laughing Stock there's hardly been any time to work on those pesky midterms I've been taking. However I'm almost out of the forest. Tonight is my final (basically) theater engagement for the semester. We just have to take everything down and it's over! Also, I will be inducted into the Dramat tonight as well (tomorrow morning I guess). This means that I've completed 3 shows on crew...my how time flies. Anyways, more unexciting work to do the rest of this week studying.

What is exciting however, is that spring break is a mere one week away. That's right, in precisely one week I will be on a plane to Colorado to ski and improv. There is no break like a tour break. So I'm thrilled to be able to hang out with the VQ for a week and then see all the people from EL I miss so much.

But what's even more exciting than that (for you) is my photoblog. If you check it regularly then you already know this, but if you expect that I will notify you every time I post a picture, than you are also correct. I have posted 6 new pictures. That's right 6 great pictures of school, sports, and more. They aren't actually new, but I don't always keep all my YDN photos, so I went and raided their server this weekend. They however the most recent 6 on the site, so just check out the photoblog and look at all my pictures! Let me know what you think!

Enjoy!

Again, I'd like to point out the new webcomic written by a friend of mine at Yale. For some reason, I find this particular comic to be the best yet! Enjoy:
http://www.qgmindpolice.com/comic/2009/02/24/you-first/

After an exhausting week of attempting to learn how to light a three-quarter thrust show (Audience on three sides), I think we are finally ready to open. As usual, yesterday was the photo show, so I'd just like to share some of those with you. Check them out on facebook! One of my favorite lightingwise scenes was the sex scene, but for obvious reasons, that's not on there. You'll just have to trust me that it was pretty....the lighting that is. Anyways, it should be a pretty fun show to watch, on to Laughing Stock now...

Yeah so I've basically been doing that Yale thing this week. No not the thing from American Psycho, that's the other Yale thing. Anyways, I'll start one week ago today. We had an extremely successful Valentine's day show for the VQ, I received numerous complements on the incestuous grandson I played in a commercial, so that was fun.

Then this Tuesday I had the chance to travel with the production team for "Romance" by David Mamet (A play we are putting on in April) to New York. We went to see "Speed the Plow" also by David Mamet. It was an extremely funny show, and we had a great time in the city. We decided that after eating at Yale for weeks on end, the New York pizza tasted very good (not that Yale food is bad). We also had the chance to go backstage and talk with the cast and see the set (which was amazing) after the show. It was a fantastic trip, so I'm 2/2 on awesome shows this semester. You can check out a couple pictures on facebook, nothing special, just documenting our trip

This week also involved a lot of work on Equus. We finalized the light plot and picked gels. I just got the order in yesterday, so I'm very excited to load-in on Sunday. I also got the plot for the Freshman Show "Laughing Stock" today, so I've been doing some calculations and planning for that show too. It looks to be a very busy next few weekends.

On the YDN front, we had a War Photographer in from the New York Times to talk on Wednesday. He had amazing stories, he's clearly crazy. As a reflection of this, he had stories that basically sounded like stories a normal soldier would have. But it was very...interesting to hear them. After that I went out to dinner at Hot Tomato's, a restaurant here, which I found had very good pasta, so that was also fun.

Overall it's been a busy time here, but in the past week I've been involved in the best aspect of everything I do here. Photo trips to New York, the total New York Theater experience, incredible speakers, and I even learned a thing or two and hat meine Deutsche Prufung bestandet! I'm having a great time, and have been very lucky to have been able to do everything this past week. Look for lots of theater pictures coming over the next two weeks.

Till then!

Just a quick note today that the Universe will probably end, or do something weird on Friday. How do I know? Well because I just discovered that on Friday, February 13th 2009, 23:31:30 UTC, the UNIX Epoch time will be. 1234567890. For those of you in the know, UNIX Epoch time is the number of seconds since since Jan 1st 1970 (I think). All time stored in databases and computed on computers are usually computed in this format. To add to the mix, it occurs on Friday the 13th. For full coverage of this event there is a link to a count up, here:
http://www.coolepochcountdown.com/

And an XKCD joke about it here (well not it, but UNIX time):
http://xkcd.com/376/

I'm off to New York to see Speed the Plow, till next time!