I just arrived in Istanbul on my way to Erzurum. The flying company I work for is doing the flying for the Winter 2011 Universiade. It's basically the winder Olympics, but for universities. The flight over was pretty cool, international business class. They give you slippers & a toiletries bag when you start the flight. Menus for the multi- ( Read more... )

So true to form, it has been a considerable length of time since I updated this thing. No Surprise there. For some reason I feel tonight is a good time to update... so my life has been... busy. in a word anyway. Still working the two jobs. The school is OK. Teaching oddly being the most satisfying part. Which is odd to consider, really. Never ( Read more... )

So this last Friday I had the amazing opportunity to go see a Nine Inch Nails concert at the Aragon ballroom in Chicago. It was, In a word, Fantastic! The show was just awesome. It was part of the Wave goodbye tour with shows only in New York, Chicago, Toronto and LA before Trent Reznor stops producing music under the Nine Inch Nails banner. This ( Read more... )

For some reason, despite my good intentions to do otherwise, I seldom actually write in here ( Read more... )

Sooooo.... it has been a while since I posted and a great deal has happened.... no big surprise there ( Read more... )

So it turns out that when I get really tired my hearing starts to fade... kind of like a track of white noise is playing in the back of my mind. Ahhhhh, sleep deprivation in the name of theatre. We go into changeover from JCS to Producers tonight... that should be fun... and by fun I mean excruciatingly long... The JCS set is huge. On the plus ( Read more... )

So... yeah.... Maine is all right so far... though today was hell. I'm not used to spending the entire day on my feet. I am the assistant technical director for Maine State Music Theatre, which means I run the scene shop. Which means I spend ALL day on my feet. Agh... some of are carpenters are a little green, which, among other things ( Read more... )

So no large rant tonight... just some observations... today was all right... went in to help put more concrete on a climbable tree for midsummer. That was all right, especially since it was the only work call this week. Though I did end up with some lye burns from the concrete... complete with broken skin... fun fun. Since I have been mostly ( Read more... )

So here I am, halfway though a g&t, which, btw is my new drink of choice, and I can't sleep... so naturally I am catching up on all of my online correspondence, etc which I am normally pretty horrible at.... but since I can't sleep i need to do something to distract me from the mundane concerns that prevent me from sleeping. Hence the following ( Read more... )

SO WTF is it with crazy people... The trend for the nutzos is now to go get a gun and go shoot up colleges.... we had one here today, you probably heard about it... It happened shortly before I got to school.... When I got there it was sirens, helicopters, cops and assault rifles galore... everyone locked inside buildings and classrooms ( Read more... )