'Ello All,

Well, my first year of grad. school is now tucked neatly under my belt. Hard to believe I've not only graduated college, but now I've completed a year at post-post-secondary school. Will it ever end? Probably not. Scholarship is a deep black pit and I am cursed to inhabit it.

Saturday, Amanda and I went to NYC, hopped off the train ( Read more... )

Cat is the Good kind of Wrong
By Joseph A. Whittaker, Plantation Owner

Now those folk who don't believe that a Negro, of sorts, can operate and run his own plantation in the 1950s will be deeply offended by the latest and most erroneous production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Broadhurst Theatre. The discrepancy between the words spoken and the ( Read more... )

Four weeks into Grad. School. I can hardly believe it. At times it seems like my life is moving at a snail's pace (especially when thinking about seeing Amanda at Thanksgiving) and at other times it moves at lightning speed. If you have Facebook, you should check out all the pictures I put there. If not, you can go to my photobucket page: Read more... )

Hello, from Long Island, New York ( Read more... )

Act 1, Scene 1

There sits, in his cab, a truck driver wearing a John Deere hat (or whatever kind of hat truck drivers wear. I’ll let you decide). The truck driver is called Ted, though his name is irrelevant.   He’s driving during rush-hour on a road being reconstructed for no apparent reason. He’s listening to the radio.

Radio Newscaster ( Read more... )

I've had a reoccurring conversation with many of my graduating peers, a conversation which usually boils down to this: "Do you regret your choice to study at Olivet?"

My answer is always, “No.”

Although, the word "no" is more complicated than its two letters suggest. Naturally, Olivet has not always been ideal as far as an undergraduate ( Read more... )

Amanda and I just saw Blades of Glory. I thought it was actually very funny; way funnier that Talledegha Nights (or however you spell that). The problem with TN is that every character, male and female alike, were essentially trying to act like Will Ferrell. Ferrell is a hilarious man, perhaps the funniest in the industry today. But whenever every ( Read more... )

Waiting for Godot was a huge success. Three great crowds for three wonderful performances. I also met with my professors yesterday who had some very insightful things to say about the play and the production. Now all I have to do is touch my honor's project and I am fin.

Grad. School update: I've just been accepted into the Stony Brook University M. ( Read more... )

Wow, the past two weeks have been ever so busy. Spring is blooming, and so too is my life.  I loathe admitting that seasonal depression is a real thing, but after this last winter I believe there is insurmountable evidence of it. In the future I have to live somewhere warm, where the birds never stop singing; somewhere warm, where the grass is ( Read more... )

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