I almost forgot. I've now been out for exactly 6 years. 8/12/99. Woot. :)
Friday, August 12, 2005
Getting Fit, Staying Fit
Posted on 8/12/2005 07:01:00 PMby TC with No comments
Well its been two weeks and I've made it to the gym 8 times in the last two weeks. 8 out of 10 is not bad and I hit all of the important 6 days that I was aiming for. My new plan is to go running at Bally's 3 times a week on Monday, Wednesay and Friday. I intend to go swimming on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but sometimes I just need a mid-week day of rest to sleep in a bit. The swimming days are simply to do some excercise that isn't impact. If I run daily I get shin-splints way too easily. I started on August 1 at about 1.25 miles. On 8/3 I got to 1.5 miles, and on 8/5 I got to 2 miles and have maintained 2 miles all this week too.
I've lost two pounds and half an inch off my waist, and I feel better and more energized than I have in a long time. I'm hoping I've lost more weight and waist size but I promised myself I wouldn't weigh/measure myself except on Mondays. All the measurements can all fluctuate from day to day so there's no point in stressing myself out by doing daily measurements.
I'm not looking for any quick weight loss or body change. I'd rather this be a nice slow process that I can sustain and keep the weight off. I'll keep everyone updated on how its all going, but I think its a good sign that for two weeks I've been able to get up at 5:30 - 6:00 AM on a daily basis for two weeks.
I've lost two pounds and half an inch off my waist, and I feel better and more energized than I have in a long time. I'm hoping I've lost more weight and waist size but I promised myself I wouldn't weigh/measure myself except on Mondays. All the measurements can all fluctuate from day to day so there's no point in stressing myself out by doing daily measurements.
I'm not looking for any quick weight loss or body change. I'd rather this be a nice slow process that I can sustain and keep the weight off. I'll keep everyone updated on how its all going, but I think its a good sign that for two weeks I've been able to get up at 5:30 - 6:00 AM on a daily basis for two weeks.
Monday, August 08, 2005
Vegi update
Posted on 8/08/2005 01:38:00 PMby TC with No comments
Yup so Dani is once again a member of the carnivore family. She was making some headway after a few false starts but given her already decreased palette of foods to choose from taking meat of the menu wasn't working. As of last Wednesday the experiment was ended with a jumbo hot dog. Yum. Just as well, she's really not the vegitarian type (no offense to any vegitarian's out there). Welcome back Dani!
That's all folks....
Posted on 8/08/2005 12:07:00 AMby TC with No comments
"Are you coming or going... or coming and going... or coming and staying?" - Brian Kinney
Well its the end of an era. Queer as folk has played its final episode. I'm not sure how to feel about this. I have so many memories attached to this show. Its the only thing I've consistantly done week after week for the last 5 years.
It started out when we got Showtime specifically to watch QAF in WA3. Then the next year Kyle got his condo and we started watching it there. I met Chad through Kyle and ended up dating him for a while. Every year we'd all go back to Kyle's on a weekly basis to watch it.
Well the gayest show on television is over. No apologies. No regrets. Overall I wasn't fully happy with the ending but are you ever happy with an ending? The boys grew up and moved on with their lives. We will too.
Well its the end of an era. Queer as folk has played its final episode. I'm not sure how to feel about this. I have so many memories attached to this show. Its the only thing I've consistantly done week after week for the last 5 years.
It started out when we got Showtime specifically to watch QAF in WA3. Then the next year Kyle got his condo and we started watching it there. I met Chad through Kyle and ended up dating him for a while. Every year we'd all go back to Kyle's on a weekly basis to watch it.
Well the gayest show on television is over. No apologies. No regrets. Overall I wasn't fully happy with the ending but are you ever happy with an ending? The boys grew up and moved on with their lives. We will too.
Friday, July 29, 2005
The last days of summer
Posted on 7/29/2005 02:36:00 PMby TC with No comments
Well I went to the Worcester Tornadoes game with Dani, my director, and other members of the cast and crew of Passing as well as my friend Andrew. It was a fun time even though the Tornadoes didn't win. Its always amusing to hang out with Andrew because he always has an opinion on everything and isn't afraid to say it.
Apparently he's convinced Dani to try going vegitarian. We'll see how long that lasts. :-P She's hoping for a month, I'm expecting no more than a week. *grin*.
Work is getting up to a fever pitch and it doesn't seem that I have enough time in a day. At the same time it constantly feels like I'm spinning my wheels trying to quickly get things done while also having to wait for the necessary pieces of the puzzle in order to complete it. I can't wait for A term so I can relax a bit.
Apparently he's convinced Dani to try going vegitarian. We'll see how long that lasts. :-P She's hoping for a month, I'm expecting no more than a week. *grin*.
Work is getting up to a fever pitch and it doesn't seem that I have enough time in a day. At the same time it constantly feels like I'm spinning my wheels trying to quickly get things done while also having to wait for the necessary pieces of the puzzle in order to complete it. I can't wait for A term so I can relax a bit.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Epilogue: NYC
Posted on 7/23/2005 05:01:00 PMby TC with No comments
Well we didn't make it to the finals, but the performance was incredible. I can now say I performed in New York City in an off-off Broadway production.
This is definitely an experience I will treasure all my life. The feeling of being on a NYC stage has to be the most exhilarating thing I have ever experienced.
We've had a good run I but now its time to move onto other Things. As Susan always says, "The best thing about theatre is the worst thing about theatre, you're always moving onto the next thing."
This is definitely an experience I will treasure all my life. The feeling of being on a NYC stage has to be the most exhilarating thing I have ever experienced.
We've had a good run I but now its time to move onto other Things. As Susan always says, "The best thing about theatre is the worst thing about theatre, you're always moving onto the next thing."
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Spyware sucks
Posted on 7/20/2005 11:08:00 PMby TC with No comments
Ok, so I'm currently playing big brother hero to my sister. I get a call yesterday from her asking me to fix her PC. She says its totally busted and she can't do anything. At this point I've learned not to think she's exagerating.
Turns out her system is so full of spyware that you really can't open a folder let alone Internet Explorer. I really hate spyware.
UPDATE: 2 hours later I'm finally done with the system and have uninstalled all the spyware and the system is better than ever. Time for bed.
Turns out her system is so full of spyware that you really can't open a folder let alone Internet Explorer. I really hate spyware.
UPDATE: 2 hours later I'm finally done with the system and have uninstalled all the spyware and the system is better than ever. Time for bed.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Passing....
Posted on 7/19/2005 10:52:00 PMby TC with No comments
No this has nothing to do with the play. I don't know why but I've been connected to a lot of deaths lately. I've had 4 wakes/funerals since April and I have another one that should be scheduled sometime in the near future. I've had 5 deaths in 4 months, one of which was personally connected through family. They say bad news comes in threes so I'm wondering if there will be a number 6. I sure hope not.
And, yes, I'm fine, just so everyone knows. Its just a little depressing to think of all the lives cut short, as many of them were. I tell people how many wakes and funerals I've been to and the response is usually that I'm too young to see this much death in such a short period of time. How do people live to their twilight years and watch all the people they know die? How do they cope?
It really makes you wonder how much you can take before you can't take any more. I really wonder, if you were offered immortality, would you take it? Could you? Could you really live forever and watch all the people you knew and loved die? How many times could you live through it before you wouldn't want to start again. What would keep you going?
I always have thought that if I could only live forever I could take every path and try everything. I could do photography to its fullest, and theater, and singing, and psychology, and politics, and anything else I'd like to do; change my vocation every 15-25 years and live life to its fullest. Lately I wonder if I would be able to live with some of the drawbacks to living forever? Who wants to live forever....
And, yes, I'm fine, just so everyone knows. Its just a little depressing to think of all the lives cut short, as many of them were. I tell people how many wakes and funerals I've been to and the response is usually that I'm too young to see this much death in such a short period of time. How do people live to their twilight years and watch all the people they know die? How do they cope?
It really makes you wonder how much you can take before you can't take any more. I really wonder, if you were offered immortality, would you take it? Could you? Could you really live forever and watch all the people you knew and loved die? How many times could you live through it before you wouldn't want to start again. What would keep you going?
I always have thought that if I could only live forever I could take every path and try everything. I could do photography to its fullest, and theater, and singing, and psychology, and politics, and anything else I'd like to do; change my vocation every 15-25 years and live life to its fullest. Lately I wonder if I would be able to live with some of the drawbacks to living forever? Who wants to live forever....
Monday, July 18, 2005
Oh what a circus, oh what a show....
Posted on 7/18/2005 11:32:00 PMby TC with No comments
Well its been a while since I last updated. It has certainly been a whirlwind of a summer. To recap, Passing got selected for Samuel French and I will be performing in NYC this Friday.
While incredible, this show has been very draining. First thing was after I was in rehearsals for NYC we had the show switched around and I was changed to Newton. Now I could have enjoyed the role if it wasn't for the fact that I had been originally picked for Pat. Try as I might I could not be happy with it. Don't get me wrong, Newton is a fun role, and it plays a LOT into the show and is certainly not a throw-away part, and there's no doubt that I had set out to be the best Newton I could be, but a part of me just wasn't in it.
Just as I was finally settling into the role came the great cast change. The playwrite had decided that the cast wasn't cutting it and needed to be changed. After a very long rehearsal where we were all drilled to find out how well we knew the play, we were all changed around. I was back to Pat from Newton. Figg was cut. Lee stayed the same but it was still the same as after the first change. Pat was cut. Figg and Newton were replaced by the understudies. Pow. Zoom. Bang. For the next week I had to constantly have people ask me how much I enjoyed having my original role back, or why didn't I seem happier now that I was playing Pat again. As much as I wanted the role back I didn't want it like that. It wasn't fair or right, but then again when is life ever fair. I suppose I should have been happy that for the first time in my life I gained from the situation instead of being the one to get screwed, as is usually the case.
As much as I loved Cate as my stage partner playing Lee and then playing opposite me as Figg, I knew that she had too much going on with the IQP, the show was stressing her to the max and her lines just weren't coming enough. She probably could have worked out as Lee but as Figg she just didn't have the time, and even as Lee what would she have given up in her work for the IQP? There's only so much energy you can put towards things and in the end if you do too much something or everything can suffer if you don't realize your limits.
I also didn't like getting Pat back by having Matt get cut. Matt was really starting to get into the role as Pat, and as hard as it was to sit there and see him miss lines that I knew cold, I knew that he was getting there and that he'd make Pat his own character.
Maybe I'm just too sensitive about these things but I had a bit of survivor's guilt when the shake-up ended.
From there we continued. We learned the dynamics of the new cast and slowly got the show going again. For me the fun was mostly gone. At this point it was a job and the final project was NYC. I had comitted to it and I was going to do it. Not exactly the mindset you'd think for going to NYC to perform for the first time ever. Lots of people would kill for this opportunity, and I barely cared.
That all changed tonight. We had our preview performance and the energy was there. The performance was incredible. I was so excited at the end of it and so was the rest of the cast. Its finally hitting me that I'm really, really, really going to NYC. This is gonna be great!
While incredible, this show has been very draining. First thing was after I was in rehearsals for NYC we had the show switched around and I was changed to Newton. Now I could have enjoyed the role if it wasn't for the fact that I had been originally picked for Pat. Try as I might I could not be happy with it. Don't get me wrong, Newton is a fun role, and it plays a LOT into the show and is certainly not a throw-away part, and there's no doubt that I had set out to be the best Newton I could be, but a part of me just wasn't in it.
Just as I was finally settling into the role came the great cast change. The playwrite had decided that the cast wasn't cutting it and needed to be changed. After a very long rehearsal where we were all drilled to find out how well we knew the play, we were all changed around. I was back to Pat from Newton. Figg was cut. Lee stayed the same but it was still the same as after the first change. Pat was cut. Figg and Newton were replaced by the understudies. Pow. Zoom. Bang. For the next week I had to constantly have people ask me how much I enjoyed having my original role back, or why didn't I seem happier now that I was playing Pat again. As much as I wanted the role back I didn't want it like that. It wasn't fair or right, but then again when is life ever fair. I suppose I should have been happy that for the first time in my life I gained from the situation instead of being the one to get screwed, as is usually the case.
As much as I loved Cate as my stage partner playing Lee and then playing opposite me as Figg, I knew that she had too much going on with the IQP, the show was stressing her to the max and her lines just weren't coming enough. She probably could have worked out as Lee but as Figg she just didn't have the time, and even as Lee what would she have given up in her work for the IQP? There's only so much energy you can put towards things and in the end if you do too much something or everything can suffer if you don't realize your limits.
I also didn't like getting Pat back by having Matt get cut. Matt was really starting to get into the role as Pat, and as hard as it was to sit there and see him miss lines that I knew cold, I knew that he was getting there and that he'd make Pat his own character.
Maybe I'm just too sensitive about these things but I had a bit of survivor's guilt when the shake-up ended.
From there we continued. We learned the dynamics of the new cast and slowly got the show going again. For me the fun was mostly gone. At this point it was a job and the final project was NYC. I had comitted to it and I was going to do it. Not exactly the mindset you'd think for going to NYC to perform for the first time ever. Lots of people would kill for this opportunity, and I barely cared.
That all changed tonight. We had our preview performance and the energy was there. The performance was incredible. I was so excited at the end of it and so was the rest of the cast. Its finally hitting me that I'm really, really, really going to NYC. This is gonna be great!
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Life's a changin'
Posted on 5/26/2005 11:28:00 PMby TC with No comments
Well it's funny how things move along. I'm days away from moving out of my apartment and in with Elliot. This will be the first time in eight years I have lived somewhere other than 01609. I lived 18 years at 02351 and now another 8 at 01609. Its funny how you grow attached to things. I know I'll be moving back to Worcester early 2006 to move into my condo but it will be 01603. Still the same but still different. I'll also be owning my own place. Every once and a while it hits me that I'll be a homeowner, that I'm that much more of an adult.
I'm also starting classes again. I'm going after my MBA from WPI. Can't beat the price when its free. I'm not sure what I want to do with the rest of my life for the long term plan but I might as well get another degree while I'm thinking.
Meeting new friends is a great thing. I've recently become friends with my director from Passing, Dani. She is an incredible person that I've connected with very fast. It's funny how that happens sometimes. I went with her as her date to a wedding this past weekend and the funniest thing was getting woken up sometime in the middle of the night to hear banging on the door of our motel room. As it turns out there was a woman who was banging on all the doors of our side of the buidling because she was trying to find her husband who was there cheating on her. Dani and I woke up and just sort of looked at each other with this "Oh my god what is going on" look on our faces. It was a fun time. :)
I'm looking forward to being on vacation for the next two weeks. I have to catch up on my classwork since I only got the books about a week and a half into the course. I also have to learn all the lines I need to learn for NYC. Hopefully I'll have a little time to relax as well.
I'm also starting classes again. I'm going after my MBA from WPI. Can't beat the price when its free. I'm not sure what I want to do with the rest of my life for the long term plan but I might as well get another degree while I'm thinking.
Meeting new friends is a great thing. I've recently become friends with my director from Passing, Dani. She is an incredible person that I've connected with very fast. It's funny how that happens sometimes. I went with her as her date to a wedding this past weekend and the funniest thing was getting woken up sometime in the middle of the night to hear banging on the door of our motel room. As it turns out there was a woman who was banging on all the doors of our side of the buidling because she was trying to find her husband who was there cheating on her. Dani and I woke up and just sort of looked at each other with this "Oh my god what is going on" look on our faces. It was a fun time. :)
I'm looking forward to being on vacation for the next two weeks. I have to catch up on my classwork since I only got the books about a week and a half into the course. I also have to learn all the lines I need to learn for NYC. Hopefully I'll have a little time to relax as well.
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