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JULY 25, 2002 Well, I have been gone awhile. I don't know what I have been doing in the time since I have put an entry here. I don't think it could have been too amazing or else I would have put it up here. I did go to Six Flags the past weekend with my friend Leah and her brother Scott and his girlfriend Ann. We had a good time though we didn't stay too long. But with the season pass its okay to leave earlier. Then we went back to Leah's house and Elizabeth joined us and we drank and talked for a few hours. It was fun. The play is going really well. We finally have the third person and the play goes up next Saturday. I am a little nervous but more excited to be in front of a crowd again. It's also going to be nerve racking cause the writer is going to be there opening night to see us. Wow, I hope we fulfill his vision. Other than that I have been trying to deal with strange powers of the universe. Trying to figure out why things happen the way they do and when life doesn't add up to what we want, how we learn to deal with what we have and make the most of it. I am worried that I am so tunnel versioned about my hair thinning or stupid stuff like that that I am missing on the big things in life and I don't want to do that. I also wonder that maybe I am trying to get everything done in life and that I am actually missing more than I am getting. I dunno it's all so odd really but now that I am 31 and that is not old by any means, but this is not where I had planned to be when I was 13. Oh well life is odd like that. I'm bored and outta here. JULY 10, 2002 Well, time to recap the past few days. I guess I'll start with the play rehearsal. The play is The Dictionary Guy, a small one act, and it seems to be going rather well. Andra, the girl I play opposite to, and I are really getting along now. She's very cool and we are really getting into the swing of the show. It's going to be really fun. This past Sunday I found my testicals and went to auditions for a play call "I Hate Hamlet" by Paul Rudnick. This thing is one of the most hysterical plays I have read in a long long time. I'd explain but I don't want to right now. :-) Just trust me it's awesome. Anyway, the night went like this: I meet my friend Kelley and we get there early and already my nerves are shot to hell. We get in and she and I are number 10 and 11, respectively. We get our photos taken, fill out the forms and wait. Thankfully we only had to wait a few minutes and then we are called and we head into this room. Including Kelley and myself there are 12 of us. The director and producer give a little chat about what they want and whatnot and then they begin to call names. Kelley is in the first group and she goes up and does a really good job. The woman she was acting with was really perky. Really. Anyway, then I am in the third or fourth group called. I have a scene with John Barrymore. I am going to have to explain this later. I think I do I good job being as nervous as I am but I can't remember now, it's all a blank. But the girl sitting next me said I was really good and wanted to watch me finish the show. I was grinning after that. Then I read again for the other young male part and then we were done. I was the only person to read twice which made me feel good but I certainly didn't think that that pushed me over the edge and into the part cause there were a whole bunch of people left when Kelley and had finished. So we shall see. For July 4th a friend and I realized that we had no plans and so decided to hang together. No one was having any parties this year for the 4th and it was really odd. So she and I met around 1 in the afternoon, realized that it was hotter then fuck and went to the mall. Pentagon City mall was packed and I began my hunt for some good sunglasses. All the ones I have suck in some way or another and I want a good pair. I was so ready to plunk down the money for a pair of Oakleys but none seemed to fit my freaking huge cranium. I was annoyed. The hunt continues. So then we walked over to the new mall at Pentagon Row and the over the the Pentagon Centre and went to the book store and crap waiting for the sun to go down so we didn't roast to death. Next was back on the Metro and into the city. DuPont Circle seemed like the best place to go so we we headed there and sat in the circle and watched the few people who were braving the temperature as well. I have never seen the circle that empty before. It was odd and I briefly felt like I was walking out of some cheap Irwin Allen 70s disaster flick and I was one of the few humans left on the planet. Ok, so I watch too many movies. Then we went to Wrapworks for really good dinner (why are you all still reading this - this is ever boring to write lol ) and then headed to the Mall. It was not the usual crowd and mass hysteria but rather subdued and empty. The security checkpoints had long lines but they went really fast and it felt good to have them there. My friend and I found a spot right near the fireworks and took a seat. By this point it was 8:45 and only 25 minutes to show time. Once the fireworks started, I felt this huge rush of patriotism and gratefulness to be an American. I even got a little misty during the show. Dork is me. But they were great, awesome fireworks. I will change the photos on the side with ones from the show Sunday the 7th was my Nephews ...shit it was either a baptism or a christening. I can't remember which. Either way it was a really great ceremony and I will also have photos of that up here as well. |