I was looking for shows to see in London and couldn't help chuckling ruefully (great word, eh?) at this extract from the review of Kean"...the audience do have to put up with some very tedious existentialism, but its a small price to pay for a show that reminds one of just how much fun theatre can be ( Read more... )

(This is in response to a comment by a just-graduated senior who said he wants to learn how to play jazz piano this summer ( Read more... )

Finished the biography on Godel today; it was a good refresher for me on his incompleteness theorems and gave me some interesting info I hadn't known on how Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies works as well as on the friendship between Godel and Einstein, which I hadn't known about. The woman who wrote the book was a mathematics grad ( Read more... )

Meh, so it's two out of three. I'm not writing (except at the moment), but I am reading--finishing up Gene Wolfe's The Claw of the Conciliator and started today a biography of Kurt Godel (of incompleteness fame) and an Agatha Christie (N or M--which I"ve either not read or not read in so many years I've forgotten it). I also started today Balzac' ( Read more... )

Often, I like to read a little bit before bed. But if I have to get up early the next morning, it needs not to be too engrossing or I will stay up too late reading, thus defeating the purpose--which is to help slow down my mind so I can get to sleep in a reasonable amount of time. In addition to books I"ve already read (several times) before, I ( Read more... )

Mrs. Martin's father died over the weekend. The funeral is tomorrow (Thurs) in Dayton.

Had my Revels audition at 6:20 this evening and was exceedingly nervous. Sang "Cloudy" for my song, which I've always thought of as one of Simon and Garfunkel's more light-hearted songs, but which Dar told me was incredibly depressing as she listened to me sing the lyrics. Meh ( Read more... )

OK, yesterday was two dress rehearsals, interrupted by US Awards. Today was two shows, with senior dinner in between. I had to jog from St. Luke's to the VST to get there in time for my scene, but I was very happy that I got to go to the dinner--I had a good group of people at my table, and I think I left only a couple of minutes before the ( Read more... )

Another example of how my ideas dissonate (a verb I just made up from "dissonance"--hey, "resonate" is a verb...) from those of so many people around me. Here's a quote from Education Week, a leader to an article, presented as though it were a striking--and innovative--insight ( Read more... )

Here's the introduction to one of my student's synthesis papers this semester ( Read more... )