Drinks and Dancing in the City

Well I had a great time visiting Patrick in Boston last night. It was great, we had dinner at Flux, a nice restaurant in the South End, then went to Club Cafe for drinks. I have to say I'm not altogether pleased with "209" the new name for the restaurant portion of Club Cafe. I can understand they wanted to differentiate between the club and the restaurant but the new menu sucks. If I want to have southwestern style food, I'll find a restaurant that specializes in that. Give me back the classic american fare and just make sure the waiters are gay and hot. :)

As always seems to be the case, its feast or famine in my life. Last night was also the birthday gathering for Joe in Netops. Turns out they went to Margharitta Grill and ended up with the same table we were at after NSO. In addition I got a phone call to torture me about the fact they also had the same waiter from this past August too. This being torture of course since he was hot and I was drooling over him the last time I was there. NOT FAIR!!! hehe

Adding to this, Max had given me a call to hang out and go out dancing last night and I had to turn that too. I haven't been dancing with Max in far too long! We always have so much fun. Well summer's coming. We'll have plenty of time to dance the nights away.

I think this is going to be a very good summer.

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Spring has sprung!

Well spring is in the air and the weather has been beautiful. Of course this being New England, don't bother getting used to it, because it will change. For the next week the temps will be low to mid 50s with various levels of rain. The rain is needed to water everything so it can all start growing so I can deal with that. The sooner there are leaves on the trees and the grass gets greener, the sooner I'll be even happier.

Of course also with spring is spring cleaning. I went on a cleaning rampage and hit the kitchen, all the dishes, the bar, the living room and my bedroom. The house looks great now.

In other news I have been approved for my mortgage so I'm that much closer to getting my condo. It looks like at the moment the closing will be in January or February by the latest. I stopped by the condo building yesterday and it looks good. The windows are being put in and it looks they have a lot of the framing up. I'm told that the model unit should be done within the next few weeks so I'll have to go visit it so I can see what it'll all really look like.

That's all for now. Enjoy the nice weather!

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Parting is such sweet sorrow...

So New Voices 23 has drawn to a close. SUCH an incredable experience. I want to thank Josie for taking me on as her Assistant director/stage manager and letting me really have an involved role in making things happen. I want to thank Dani for seeing in me talant worth having in her show. I want to also thank Susan for convincing me that I should do both Death of a Salesman AND Merrily We Roll Along at the same time so I could be her waiter, Stanley.

What an incredible year for theater. I've found that I really enjoy this and want to do LOTS more! Everyone in Masque has been incredible and welcomed me with open arms. While I will enjoy the respite from the stress of being involved in a production I can't wait until we start anew.

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ugh

Ok, so tonight was NOT one of my finer moments.

1) It is not a good idea as stage manager to forget to preset the props. Thankfully our cast for Transaction Completed is absolutely brilliant and amazing and worked wonders with everything without it.

In what little defense I feel comfortable giving, the damn backstage speakers weren't working so I was trying to frantically follow the script for the preceding show and make sure our actors got out on stage correctly. Summary: Brilliant Actors, Bad Stage Manager.

2) Knowing your lines helps. Yeah..... in Passing I jumped us about 1.5 pages and even got to insert lines that weren't there. Thankfully, from what I'm told, it wasn't obvious to most of the audience. Of course, I know what happened and that's enough, being the perfectionist I am.

Well I have my chance to redeem myself tomorrow for #1 and Saturday for #2. I'm going to bed now.

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Feeling better.

So I'm feeling a lot better now about the show. We just had techs and while we skipped forward three pages than back two pages I feel that we can at least get it done on stage without any worries. It may not be perfect but it will be a damn good show.

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Ok, getting a little nervous now

Yeah.... so I'm starting to get a bit nervous. New Voices starts in 2 days and my show is in 3 days. I have the largest role I've ever had thus far in my acting experience. I have a lead in a 20 page play and I have lines on all but 1 of the pages. I just hope I don't dissappoint anyone. This play is one of two submitted by Cat for the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival, so there's a possiblity this could go to New York. I'm sure I'll be fine by the time I get to stage and go on but for now I'm nervous. Ah well.

Cosmic Breath.

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Where am I?

Well its been a while since my last post. My life has been consumed by all things New Voices. As I had hoped I got a good role! I play the role of Pat in Passing. I am also Stage Manager/Asst. Director of Transactions Completed, Reporter #4 in Bunker and Assistant Director of Communications for the festival.

I recently threw myself a birthday party that was fun for the most part - minus the drama that basically killed the party at about 12:30. I guess that's what I get for having a party on the full moon during Mercury Retrograde. It was great to see people again. It was fun hanging out and relaxing for the first time in a while. With Merrily I really stopped doing anything social. The stress of it just ate up my life and left me with no free time. While I don't regret it, because it was a good experience and I met a lot of new friends, it was a very draining experience. New Voices is similar but not as bad. I've barely slept all week - bed at 4 am Sunday, 2 am Monday, 2 am Tuesday, 4 am Wednesday, 2 am Friday and I'm still up now at 2:45. Oh, and I've been up by 8:30 am every day this week. At least tonight I can sleep in a bit before my 12:30 rehearsal.

I've also decided I need to do SOMETHING about this single thing. Its been over a year since I broke up with Tim and I've found no one. Of course it doesn't help things when you aren't really looking. The thing that's really pushing this is that my sex drive finally kicked in to some noticeable level. Spring fever has hit me particularly hard this year.

Well time for bed. I doubt I'll be getting much sleep this week seeing as its production week. If you want to come to the shows check out the website at http://users.wpi.edu/~nv23.

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