Sunset past, just a trace of light still left in the sky. Sitting on the balcony and wishing I still smoked. Something about the idea of a cigarette, some beer, the cool but pleasant night air, the sound of the surf. We bought at the supermarket so we can avoid eating out every meal for …
The view from our balcony. Pretty sweet! Newark to Honolulu = 10 hours. Rows and rows of people with headsets and television screens in front of them, watching CSI or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or The Brothers Grimm or Proof or Joey or CSI Miami (why oh why has that show survived? I swear …
You know those days when you sleep a long time but just can‚??t seem to wake up? Today is one of those. I‚??m hoping taking a brisk walk will help energize me because I have mucho paper writing and reading to do today. However, I did want to share an amusing dream that I had …
I realized last night that the majority of conversations I have ever had as a graduate student are not deep, intellectually exciting conversations about the meaning of theatre and life and art … rather they are about 1) being overworked 2) bitching about how graduate school sucks up your life 3) details of assignments 4) …
Community I remember, so many years ago, talking with Catherine T. about grad programs. Probably bitching about Maryland‚??s at the time. She told me that she was really happy with the program and that there was so much less politics going on and that the community at UMD was much stronger than other places. I …
So we have been settling into the apartment slowly. Friday, I saw Lisa’s play In the Belly of the Beast with Two Backs at the Here Arts Center. It was an interesting piece with some nice moments and I would like to talk with her more about it at some point. Bumped into Liza Lentini …
the day after … I had a very pleasant birthday last night at Sandro’s. Honestly, there were a few people I would have very much liked to have seen but was very happy to see those there. I was bad and had some cigarettes, but am ok with that. I’m not returning to a habitual …
Yes indeedy-do. 35. Am going up to Maryland for a party at Sandro’s house to see some friends I’ve seen precious little of this past year. Currently am waiting to see if Dave is going so I can catch a ride up with him, otherwise it’s some quality Greyhound time. Joya found a place she …
The phrase ‚??politically correct‚?? immediately short-circuits any possibility of dialogue. 1a. Folded into the phrase ‚??politically correct‚?? is the assumption that the person who is being ‚??politically correct‚?? has no right to his or her feeling about a subject. This is a particularly dangerous assumption if one wants to value egalitarianism, multiculturalism or interculturalism … …