Mac and caviar

Tonight I went to a reception at the NY Public Library and ate macaroni and cheese with caviar on top... then I read about the death of God in a postmodernity article on my way home. (at times I roll eyes at myself)

I'm doing too much I think... so do I quite my masters completely or do I just cut back to one class? I WILL get my MFA in the (near?) future.

I told my boss today that I dread coming to work. We discussed things to ease that.

To Make a Man

boop

Big bug

So the pbf and I have been watching the Macy's Parade. When the Big Bird balloon came by the feathers on his head seemed a bit limp and the pbf, in all honesty, said, "Oh no, Big Bird's losing air in his antennas." Yes folks, Big Bird's antennas.

Thanksgetting

Today I got a migraine. I get them occasionally. The highlight of the migraine was definitely barfing out of my nose. I had never done that before-wow it sucked! I'm pretty close to ship shape now. I just got a super high quality digital recorder for work and it's AMAZING! I expect sound samples from all of my faithful readers.

CAPS? REALLY JIMMY?

I KNOW THEY'RE ANNOYING, BUT MY FILM IS RENDERING AND IT'S DUE TOMORROW MORNING... (PUTTING ON CAPS LOCKS DOES THIS THING THAT ALLOWS IT TO RENDER QUICKER)

TODAY, THE TV SHOW 30 ROCK WAS FILMING ON THE BLOCK I WORK ON. (rendering complete... *bling*) I saw Tina Fey sitting in a restaurant eating with her co-star (the girl that plays Jenna). Tina was wearing a bad blond wig and a baseball cap. It was hilarious.
Time to go watch my film and make sure it's actually done this time.

Hugger mugger

I went to a dear friend's b-day party tonight with some more dear friends. The cap off to my glorious evening was being the sole witness to a violent mugging. Huzzah! I had to talk to lots of police and got to witness many police and ambulancy things first hand. I have to say that most of the experience was very different than on TV. I definitely was afraid that the ginormous and scary mugger would come after me, but he ran the other way. For that I am grateful. The police caught him minutes later. Congrats officers! My advice for wannabe star sole crime witnesses:

1) Back away from the situation to stay SAFE.
2) Simultaneous to backing away, try to get a good look at the face of the criminal because YOU may be called in to ID them.
3) When it's over stay around the scene of the crime and answer all of the questions the police may have.
4) Don't forget to tell them about a key piece of evidence until after they're gone (like I did, but they came back).

your space

so the wife has a psuedo myspace that i use sometimes to look up people. I was looking up old high school people and I found MY SISTER! and ANOTHER SISTER and MY MOTHER... wtf?

I also found this old girl from HS... she's married now and has three kids. Her myspace plays the mario song and "girls just want to have fun" as budweiser cans ran down the page.
Here are some excerpts, think of it as a cultural study:

Movies - Shag. Dirty Dancing. Crybaby. Grease
Television - American Idol. Rescue Me. Law &; Order SVU
Books - I hate reading unless it's the newspaper to hear gossip

Eye Color: BLUE
Hair Color: BLONDISH BROWN
Height: 5 FOOT
Right Handed or Left Handed: RIGHT
Your Heritage: WHITE
The Shoes You Wore Today: NIKES
Your Weakness: THE PHONE
Your Fears: BEIN ALONE
Your Perfect Pizza: PEPPERONI AND CHEESE
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST
Thoughts First Waking Up: OH GOD ITS MORNING ALREADY
Your Best Physical Feature: MY BUTT
Your Bedtime: WHENEVER
Your Most Missed Memory: MY PAPAW, HIGH SCHOOL
Pepsi or Coke: MT. DEW
MacDonalds or Burger King: MCDONALDS
Single or Group Dates: GROUP THEN SPLIT TO SINGLE
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: YUCK
Chocolate or Vanilla: CHOCOLATE
Cappuccino or Coffee: EITHER
Do you Smoke: FAITHFULLY
Do you Swear: MOST OF THE TIME
Do you Sing: YEP IM GONNA BE THE NEXT AMERICAN IDOL
Do you Shower Daily: YEP
Have you Been in Love: YEP
Do you want to go to College: BEEN THERE DONE THAT HATED IT
Do you want to get Married: ALREADY AM BUT NEVER AGAIN
Do you belive in yourself: YEA
Do you get Motion Sickness: NOPE
Are you a Health Freak: NOPE
Do you get along with your Parents: NOPE SHES A FRUIT LOOP
Do you like Thunderstorms: NO
Do you play an Instrument: HELL NO
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: WHY HELL NO
In the past month have you been on Drugs: HELL NO NEVER
In the past month have you gone on a Date: NOPE
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:' NO
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: NO
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: GROSS
In the past month have you been on Stage: NO
In the past month have you been Dumped: NO
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: NO
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: NO
Ever been Drunk: HELL YEA PLENTY
Ever been called a Tease: YEP
Ever been Beaten up: YEP
Ever Shoplifted: NOPE
How do you want to Die: IN A CAR WRECK AND FAST
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: TOO LATE FOR THAT QUESTION
What country would you most like to Visit: SOME PLACE WITH SECLUDED BEACHES AND PALM TREES
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: BLUE
Favourite Hair Color: DARK
Short or Long Hair: SHORT
Height: 5'--6'
Weight: NORMAL WITH MUSCLES
Best Clothing Style: TANK TOPS AND BLUE JEANS
Number of Drugs I have taken: NONE BUT I NEED VALUMES ONCE IN A WHILE
Number of CDs I own: TOO MANY TO COUNT I BORROWED AND NEVER RETURNED
Number of Piercings: 1 BELLY
Number of Tattoos: NOPE BUT I WANT A SHROOM ON MY PELVIC AREA THAT SAYS EAT ME!
Number of things in my Past I Regret: PLENTY! DATING THE IDIOTS I DID

I'm on fire.

Today I saw Sasha Radetsky, Sutton Foster and Steve Guttenberg! Yeah bitches, I'm amazing. I also finished a 3 day workshop with the former head of Voice for The Royal Shakespeare Company. We are going to do lunch in March. I'm jealous of myself. I just booked a coaching gig for a show that goes up in March. Also I might be working on a show that goes up in 3 weeks. Hopefully if I do end up working on it I will find out soon. Yeeps!

Spotting trotty

Today I walked behind Patti Lupone for a block. A quintessential NYC celebrity. She hollered for a taxi with her enormous voice-amazing.

Oppose something

During last night's theory class we discussed oppositional cultures such as mods, hippies, and punks. During their time, they were quite oppositional to mass-culture of the day, though now they have been controlled by mass culture and turned into fashion. There's a popular idea that there is no oppositional culture anymore, or that you have to look at things on a smaller scale to see oppositional cultures in play. Example: I no longer wear my lip ring because I like my teeth just the way they are. No one here cares if it's in or out, and the only reason I wore it in the first place was because I liked the way it looked. But anytime I'm in Tennessee I will wear the lip ring because I like the way it makes me opposing to some of my family. Kissing my grandmothers on the cheek with it is a hoot and hearing my cousin talk about how he'd like to beat up all the idiots with piercings is amusing. Body Modification as a culture is no longer oppositional in most of the world, but is in certain places.

The only culture that came up in class as an oppositional culture to the hegemony is The Politically Left-Leaning Christian. This group opposes the majority of Christians in the US and the majority of Liberals as well. I'd say the lefty christian is a vast thing ranging from the socially conscious believer to the tranny in her sunday best at her Gay Friendly church on Sunday morning. I think I want to study this "group" closer, as perhaps this is me... but do I really stand up and actively oppose things?

I voted today.
you should too

Sick and Pathetic

When one of us is sick, the other does a great job of taking care of them (ex. making soup, finding medicine, helping them rest, ect.), but when we're both sick, we just sit around the house eating junk food that doesn't help our bodies to heal.

On Sunday morning we walked the dog up to 4th ave. and watch the NYC marathon for a little while. We saw the leading pack and the group surrounding Armstrong and then all the average joes. Then we walked back home and saw the UPS marathon on the Gowanus Expressway. We started seeing lots of UPS trucks in a row driving along the expressway overpass that we can see from our stoop... I started counting after a few passed and counted a total of 73 brown delivery trucks... there must have been more. And no other traffic either. Perhaps they were shooting a commercial... perhaps they are moving headquarters... perhaps a millionaire bought lots and lots of toys for an orphanage and the trucks were on their way to deliver one of those "makes me wanna cry" moments in family movies.

No Shave Novembre

It begins. though, I'll probably end up trimming the goatee as the full beard grows in and shaving my neck... but still, full beard season is upon us.

I feel like I'm behind at work and school and home life too. This is the first 'semester' in a while that I've taken on so many responsibilities and at times I'm glad and at other times it feels like too much.

But I'm still available for bumper fixing and Haiku writing if anyone needs me.

Masculinity

The car is now fixed
Also my hands are dirty
and I feel manly

I was going to write a whole entry about masculinity but I decided instead to write a haiku about my evening that made me feel manly... is a haiku about masculinity ironic?

I was also going to write about how patient I was with my wife while lying under the car reattaching the bumper... years ago I would have been yelling within minutes, but I think I'm much calmer now.

Car alarmed

Having our car here has been really awesome. It's a perk, not a necessity, but it sure makes lots of things easy. Unfortunately our sweet little Honda Civic has also had its fair share of tragedy. In the slightly less than one year that we have had it here it has:

-gotten its front bumper slightly knocked off its seem
-gotten its front bumper scratched
-gotten its license plate stolen (we only have one so that was a pain)
-gotten its rear bumper scratched
and just THIS MORNING
-got its back bumper completely knocked off!

I'm especially annoyed because, of course, we weren't left a note or anything. Blarg!


***UPDATE***
The pbf fixed the bumper! Well, as fixed as it's gonna get. It took us an hour and a half and we had to go to Lowe's and we were laying under the car in the parking lot and the pbf got his new shoes greasy and his jacket and then we had White Castle and Brian had two margeritas!

Catch up!

BeBe's helping me to catch up on homework that I am behind on because of our vacation... I wouldn't trade the vacation in though.














Here's a sneak peek at the pictures from our trip though... when I have time I'll add more. Maybe I'll give flickr a try.

Lake Flacid... PLACID! I MEAN PLACID!

Friday morning we head to the Lake... don't come back til Monday evening. I'd type "gone fishin'" on the blog, but it's so cold there they've taken the boats off the lake and ice fishing hasn't started yet.

Early this week a friend that went vishing saturday night/sunday morning (36 hours) gave me a steak from his first ever sword fish and some tuna. It was tastey... made the wife eat some sword fish even though she's not a fish eater.

100th post for wife and man

I've been cranky as of late. To my wife, I'm sorry... (note the public apology is not the only one she will receive, but it gives me sex appeal, no?)

Having been in my job now for a year and a few months, I see that it is extremely cyclical, and the current cycle of producing next years registration catalog (scheduling faculty over a year in advance) is a stressful one. I make no apologies for blogging at work. My boss hinted that I should work from home today but if I did that I would have never left the bed today and that would be worse. Though, I suppose that's expected of people on a Friday the 13th. (my dad died on a friday the 13th... i'm just sayin'...)

Today is my favorite kind of weather... suns out and it's brisk and in the 50's.

Yesterday I was told that I look like Clint Howard... the other man standing there agreed completely... i don't see it.
Yesterday I had the music of The Delgados stuck in my head but I couldn't remember their band name for the life of me...

I'm going to go post some photoshop stuff on the media blog and then maybe call some faculty.

(blogger.com's spell check doesn't include blog or blogging... if I changed to their suggestions, I would be flogging on my bloc)

Stewing about my beef.

So, through this professional Voice & Speech group I belong to I have signed up to be mentored. I have been preliminarily paired up with two possible mentors! It would be very exciting on a personal and professional level to be in the classroom observing, making contacts, etc. Yesterday at 5:15 I had a first phone date scheduled with one of them. This particular woman is the head of the MFA Acting program at a prominent NY area College. We scheduled this last week, it's been on my calendar. Big Stuff.

Last night I made Beef Stew. I'm been cooking a lot since my teaching hours are great and the PBF is getting smart in Grad School. I follow the recipes and it takes me awhile but I'm learning and nothing has been a total disaster. Yet. I started my stew last night at 4 o'clock. Rinse. Peel. Chop. Cook. Drain. Add. Mix. Cook. Sit. I finished at 6:06. There I was checking my e-mail when my phone started to ring with an unknown NYC number. I asnwered and simultaneously realized I HAD MISSED MY PHONE DATE! Aaaaaaaaaaaaah! My mentor's smooth, voice greets me. I hooted and hollered about my Beef Stew. She now must think I'm crazy.

The worst first impression I have ever made.

soof-yawn

We went to the Sufjan Stevens show on Saturday night. It was really great. We're old fogies now so those shows in theaters where you sit are prefect for us.
His opener My Brightest Diamond was really good too.

I have to have a costume for Halloween time... In Sufjan glory, I'm considering dressing up as a State. What state would you like to see me be? I'm considering my birth state of Tennessee, but I'm open to suggestions... happy to try something different.

wife bags

McMüller wrote music for my video.