Eight years ago

[alita42]

I was working on the dress rehersals for Tartuffe.
Hungry for election coverage, we refreshed CNN.com every thirty seconds to bring us the news. Actors running between the band room and the green room to shout which state went blue or red - in their costumes, no less.
Triumphant, one shouted, "They called Florida for Gore!"
We jumped, we yelled, we

Comments

[whatis42]

I'd forgotten you were too young to vote in 2000. It was my first election, and I've been cynical about them ever since.

Beautiful

[lola_leviathan]

There was some point where some of us took a candle out into the back of the schoolyard and did this ritual where we dripped wax on our hands or arms. I'm pretty sure Mick was one of the leaders of this. Thanks for reminding me of this.

God, Tartuffe. What an intense time in life.