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My first day of summer work
May. 10th, 2004 11:41 pmYes... I'm embarrassed to admit: this is the first real summer job I've ever managed to land. (Aside from that job as a studio music teacher when my predecessor returned after one week.)
The first day of Fort Henry orientation was, uh, boring. ( ... )
Other recent events:
1) A really very good amateur production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in a tiny little box theatre. (I swear the actors could see every audience member clearly.) My only real complaint is that Guildenstern (I think it was) spoke too quickly and with rather sloppy enunciation so that considerable chunks of his grand flights of logic in the first act were unintelligible. Rosencrantz was played very much for laughs (a buffoonish personality) and had a tendency to steal the spotlight, but the character was so cute, lovable, sympathetic, and ultimately poignant that it worked. One improvised highlight:
[a weird 2"-3" crawly thing suddenly scuttles across the stage]
Rosencrantz [in character, terrified]: Big bug! *stamp* *splat*
2) I bought the Arrogant Worms' latest CD, Toast!. It's a bit like Live Bait (i.e. very energetic, recorded live with additional musicians) but all the songs are new. I love it to death and have listened to it all the way through no less than three times. Trevor's songs come off particularly well on this album, IMHO.
3) I saw Deirdre dance in the last ballet school performance I'll ever see. I tried to take my digital camera (with 1 minute video capability) into the auditorium but lost my nerve at the last minute when I saw the signs prohibiting videotaping... and instantly regretted it because there were a legion of camcorders in there.
(The family photo curse lifted briefly: my sister's picture finally appeared in the school newsletter. That's her in the black costume (dress) in the photo in the lower left-hand corner.)
The first day of Fort Henry orientation was, uh, boring. ( ... )
Other recent events:
1) A really very good amateur production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in a tiny little box theatre. (I swear the actors could see every audience member clearly.) My only real complaint is that Guildenstern (I think it was) spoke too quickly and with rather sloppy enunciation so that considerable chunks of his grand flights of logic in the first act were unintelligible. Rosencrantz was played very much for laughs (a buffoonish personality) and had a tendency to steal the spotlight, but the character was so cute, lovable, sympathetic, and ultimately poignant that it worked. One improvised highlight:
[a weird 2"-3" crawly thing suddenly scuttles across the stage]
Rosencrantz [in character, terrified]: Big bug! *stamp* *splat*
2) I bought the Arrogant Worms' latest CD, Toast!. It's a bit like Live Bait (i.e. very energetic, recorded live with additional musicians) but all the songs are new. I love it to death and have listened to it all the way through no less than three times. Trevor's songs come off particularly well on this album, IMHO.
3) I saw Deirdre dance in the last ballet school performance I'll ever see. I tried to take my digital camera (with 1 minute video capability) into the auditorium but lost my nerve at the last minute when I saw the signs prohibiting videotaping... and instantly regretted it because there were a legion of camcorders in there.
(The family photo curse lifted briefly: my sister's picture finally appeared in the school newsletter. That's her in the black costume (dress) in the photo in the lower left-hand corner.)
