It's up to you... New York... NEW YORK!!!!

So its official....

I'm going to be acting in the New Voices in New York Production of "Passing" by Cat Darensbourg, which is performing at the XXX Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival.

The date is Friday, July 22, 2005 at 7:30 pm. More details to follow.

I am so incredibly excited. I'm so happy for Cat! We are going to be incredible. New York City, here we come!!

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Moving along

Well spring is in full gear and classes are over. The summer is coming closer and closer. This will be a bit of a roller coaster of a year coming up. I move in with Elliot in less than a month and should hopefully be in my condo by February.

The plan is also to start taking classes this summer - gotta get on that - hopefully not too late. Damn procrastination!!!!!

On another note, I watched "A Touch of Pink" tonight w/ Tim. Sweet movie. It was fun hanging out with Tim. We've both been busy so we haven't had a chance to really hang out in a while.

I also got in touch with an old friend from HS, Matt. It was a lot of fun chatting w/ him. Its funny how you can not talk to people for ages and then all of a sudden its like old times.

Finally, I'm starting to go crazy about New York City. I WANT TO KNOW!!! I want this show to go to NYC so badly, both for Cat and for the sheer exhileration of being able to perform in NYC. Cross your fingers folks!!

Ok, g'night.

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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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NO MORE SNOW!!!

Ok, I've officially hit the point of the year where I'm sick of the winter. Give me warm days, give me green trees, give me blooming flowers, give me hot sandy beaches, plain and simple give me SPRING AND SUMMER! For all the talk of global warming it was damn cold all season and very snowy.

The worst part of this winter is it wasn't even consistant. It was a true New England Winter. We had days in February that almost hit 60, and now in March we have wind chills of -22.

In other news I'm finally getting fed up with my TiVo. Seems that the hard drive is failing. I had hoped that it was just an issue with too much going on with suggestions and 50+ season passes but nope, seems to be the hard drive skipping. What happens is that when the TiVo tapes a show it has points where it'll almost freeze up and cause video and sound distortion. Not cool. I've bought a new hard drive to replace the two that are in there now. Hopefully that'll take care of it and I'll be in a good position to add a second hard drive later this summer.

Auditions for New Voices 23 are next week. I hopefully will get a nice little part that I can sink my teeth into. I've really taken to this whole theater thing. I love it! In addition to acting I will be Stage Managing for Josie. That should be a fun new experience.

On top of that I will begin taking classes for my MBA starting this summer. I have to start studying for my GMATs so I can take them in the fall. I can take two classes before I have to have my GMAT scores to officially get into the MBA program at WPI. The best part is that it is free. :) I'll have more information about that once I sit down and map out my long term plan with whoever my advisor will be.

I move once more before the major move to my condo. I'll be moving in with Elliot in June. That'll be fun. I don't spend enough time with Elliot. He's a good friend of mine and I think us living together will be good. Heck we pretty much lived together when he lived in the studio apartment two floors up from me back at Bowdoin Street. I hope he realizes that this means my annual night before the fourth party will be held at his house this year. :)

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