so i get it...

so quick update for all you kiddos... last january due to a miscommunication between CSU and I (basically they thought I was going to pay out of state tuition to take bullshit classes that had nothing to do with my chosen major ie. Business Management/Marketing) I am now enrolled at our very own Webster University... I go to WU. who hoo... And I'm a college student again. Ha eat it. So i go back to school and realized a few things.
1. beer tastes better when you've deserved it...
2. class is easy compared to ordering dog collars
3. meals are infrequent but snacks are necessary.
d. i need my own place cause my parents' basement is not a conducive study environment
5. i thought people out of college were dumb until i got back into college and realized that really dumb people are everywhere... i had just never knew it...
6. there is no branch of the government entitled the administrative branch
g. draw an L with a big x in the middle; label your p's and q's, your s's and d's and you got everything you need to know about economics
h. i like beer
9. gerbils, like people are not invinceable...and die...just like people...just like everything...cept bowie and elvis...

bet you wish you were here...

I'm writing currently from my dorm room in Istanbul (I just discovered the Ethernet cord up here, instead of using the wireless in the lobby downstairs). Walking out to the tram station from here, I pass two Nargiles (hookah bars), and then right before the big street with the station, there is sort of a hookah complex, with ten or fifteen Nargile shops right next to each other, each with bean bag chairs or booths, and lots of little tables for the cay and the backgammon (which everyone plays while smoking).

Also, it's a beautiful city. But that in particular made me think of you folks.

They're Watching...

I don't know if anyone remembers, but the past two summers I got some pretty bad speeding tickets. Summer between senior and freshman year I got a speeding ticket for going 20 over in shrewsbury. I got a court order for that one, had to get a lawyer to get it reduced blah-d blah $400 out of my pocket. Last summer, I got a speeding ticket for going 13 over in Webster. This time my parents didn't make me get it fixed and so it was like $150 out of my pocket. Both tickets were in july. So... this summer I was determined to not get a speeding ticket. I have been pretty good about not speeding too horribly. I made it all the way through july and I was pretty damn proud of myself. Well, I guess I bragged a bit too much. I check the mail today and there is a letter addressed to my parents from the "Photo Enforcement Program". Fuck. I knew it was me. It just had to be, knowing my luck. I rip open the letter and sure enough. Pictures of my license plate glaring right back at me. Supposedly, on the night of july 16th I failed to stop completely at the intersection of Hampton and Chippewa before making a right turn on red. I now owe the city $100. Damn photo enforcement. I thought I was home free. Karma is a bitch.

To Love Another Person Is To See The Face Of God

Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again. When the beating of your heart echos the beating of the drums there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes.

Yeah so I went to see Les Mis at the Muny. It was really good. The singing was so good it gave me chills throughout most of the performance, which was quite a feat because it was 100 degrees outside last night with no breeze. Anyway, it was the only other performace of Les Mis I have seen that brought tears to my eyes (besides the Nerinx performance). The only thing I didn't like is they sped up certain parts of the performance because it was so long...and the parts the sped up were when Eponine and Gavroche died. While Eponine and Marius were singing to each other it was really sad and all, but happened so quickly it was hard to get too emotional about it.

Seeing the show at the Muny really brought back a wave of memories. Now that I think about it I don't even remember where I put all my old programs and stage props and stuff. I really wish I knew where it was. It is so hard to watch a musical and you have every lyric memorized but you cant just sing to your hearts content like me and Carolyn used to do in the booth while buring plastic spoons with a lighter and being watched over by the angry nun. I miss all the days of working our asses off but it being fun because our friends are with us. I miss Alan Naylors ghost (which I think will die off with the death of our old theatre) and I miss how Amandas face kept getting shoved into his ass on the trampoline. I miss Marc and how I stole his hat cause I thought he was hot and wanted him to come back up to the booth to get it. I miss Andy the light guy and walking backstage in the rep. I really just miss doing backstage for Nerinx theatre and everything about it.

But let me say this, the Muny's barricade was fucking awesome. Probably because a few days before the performance the director didn't yell "PAINT IT BLACK". Seriously their barricade was really cool. My mom's friend got us awesome seats. If anyone else gets the chance go see it. It was great.