Dear Livejournal, Winter came tonight.  As I choose my words I must remember two things.  One:  I had a decent amount of wine and so thoughts might find themselves oddly filtered through my brain and fingertips and onto these screen.  Two: My wife told me as I was dissecting that I can choose to be happy with it and it's a good reminder.  First off ( Read more... )

Dear Liveournal, what a strange day.  If this letter seems odd it is because I have imbibed much of the fermented grape.  I worked a 6 to 2 shift so I could attend a barbecue at Rachel's seminary where I performed admirably as the first lady with dog in tow.  Immediately afterward, fully prepared to have a lonely evening, I ran into a medievalist ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal, Dr. Kessler had to make a sudden departure for Kentucky so I am left on my lonesome to take care of Bilbo.  I got to drive out to the airport for the first time which was a fine experience save for getting lost on the way back.  The rest of my day was spent fairly idly.  I taught my CAMH course and took Bilbo out a time or two.  I ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal, it's my weekend!  Due to some shift-switching I have the next two days off although I don't know if it will be quite the exciting vacation.  Tomorrow I need to buy shoes.  That seems to be the end of my thrilling plans.  We had Puppy training at the PetSmart tonight.  We were two puppies down so we had a nice semi-private lesson ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal, things are a touch hectic in the Kessler household as we get ready for school to finish and for all the hijinx that ordination and graduation entail.  On top of that, Rachel departs for England in little over a month and then we're off, almost immediately to Nashville for a week so it's a little go go go right now.  And then there ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal, we had a great turn out tonight!  We sold out our opening night which is pretty awesome.  Hopefully the folks we turned away at the door will be back tomorrow with an even more ravenous appetite for strange and wondrous theatre.  We could do to be a touch louder but all things considered, I think we did very well tonight.  A good ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal, we had a very nice tech rehearsal last night and I got to see some of the other shows.  I must say, everything is coming together quite nicely and I'm excited for Friday.  We had a pretty jam-paced CAMH class today with some new blood.  I through together a hodge-podge of exercises including my new time-filler: Fictionary ( ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal, we had a fun photo shoot for Test tonight down at the old Hart House where Rachel and I were hitched.   This week will be pretty intense but I'm hoping to make it through alive.  We've got rehearsals and work and puppies (well, just the one).  The party never stops.  Also, in a nod to Script Frenzy, I rewrote and extended my ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal, do forgive my increasing absences.  We have illness in the house and my schedule (pronounced Shed-yule) has been thrown off.  Puppy is alive and well and peeing more or less when we want him to with the occasional hiccup.  Two nights ago we had a very fun game of Star Wars run by one of my priest friends from Wycliffe.  I got to ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal, we had our first of six puppy training classes tonight out at Petsmart and already we're feeling a lot better about things.  There were some interesting fellow 'classmates' for Bilbo to meet.  There's the very classy Rough Collie named Beezer who's going to grow up looking like lassie.  Then we have the Golden Retriever named Soul ( Read more... )