January and February 2006, lots going on!

Hi Guys, (well actually I doubt anyone reads this-mostly cause I don't write much)

I'll do my best to catch up what has happened so far this year:

Christmas at home was good. New Years at my place in Hamilton was great! I made supper for some close friends and we just hung out in my empty living room. I missed part of the night but that's another story...

Classes are going okay. I have 5 classes this term as a real Classics BA Honors student: Roman art, Greek archaic art, Roman Family, Roman History and 1st year film. I'm loving the art classes (I don't actually make art just study it). Family is pretty easy but really fun cause Erica and Monica are in that class with me -you know what that means? A good grade because of Erica's notes :) History is a bitch (I just wrote my midterm and I don't think it went very well) and film is not very interesting but I get to watch films with Rick sometimes.
I'm still working at MUSC admin. I started out with 11hrs a week, now I'm down to 8.5hrs and I like it more. I no longer do setups I'm just in the office. There's a little tension in the office from time to time but I still love working there. Teresa will be leaving on maternity leave soon and I'm going to miss her.
McMaster Thespian Club is going great. I ended up being Technical director for The Importance of Being Earnest as well as acting ASM because their ASM disappeared. It was a hectic time. As Tech Dir. I worked out the set design and construction along with Jared. We built periaktoi, which are triangular flats, each side was different and when you rotate them it's your scene change. We were building outside and it was quite cold but I had a great tech crew. We managed to get everything ready (even though we had a few problems with the double doors we were building) and we moved in on Monday January 30th. Two days of tech and dress rehearsal and we opened on Feb 1st. We had a great run, sold out a few days. Mom and Celine even came to see it. I didn't get to see it though because I was on head set back stage. It was a great show and I worked with some really great people. My prod squad was great, I can't wait to work with them again. Progress on As You Like It slowed down a bit while we worked on Earnest but we are looking good. [More about AYLI in later posts I'm sure] check out www.macthespians.com
Summer Drama Festival had a little progress to. We got 18 director proposals. and Just this week we selected our 2006 season. Check out www.summerdrama.blogspot.com

random things that happened are as follows:
Watching Gilmore Girls at Noa's all night on Jan. 7th and being locked out of my house when I got there in the morning, so I slept in MUSC and missed a lunch date :( . Locked door issue was solved by removing the bolt lock to the porch with the handy screw drives I got for Xmas.
I went to the Science formal on Jan. 13th and had a great time. It had been a long time since I had so much fun dancing.
The next day Jan 14th I caught up with AJ. Too much drinking occurred as it often does with AJ and we ended up in a big fight. Things were resolved shortly after.
Jan 20th we had a Serenity BBQ at James' Oh so much fun with the Fire Fly crew. This BBQ and the forgotten pie created a Pie night at James' on the 26th. Oh so much pie and so good... PIE....
Jan 21st weekend was a big build time for Earnest but I still managed to see the director series plays (I've actually seen all but one) and go to Samir's going away party.
Then it was the Earnest week. The week was made even more interesting by also seeing Girls! Girls! Girls! on Thursday afternoon. I even managed to get to Charity Ball after the Friday night show of Earnest.
Saturday Feb.4th brought a Earnest double header and a cast party. The cast party was very fun ;).
Sunday Feb 5th was the set strike and move out of HTI (where we held Earnest). It was hard work after a long week and a long night.
Then it was return to normal life. well kinda, I was so wiped.
I went to see a guest speaker on Feb 8th who talked about prehistoric ceramics in southern Italy it was a great talk. I found it so interesting how pottery making varied from village to village and this was attributed to the "grand-mother factor" [aka why do you do it that way? cause that's how my mother taught me and her mother taught her. why would I change it?] now this isn't really how it was presented but that's what I thought was awesome.
There was a Kingdom road trip organized by Steve and the sci-cos on Feb 10th.
Monica was in the Vagina Monologues and I saw her on Sunday Feb 12th. She was amazing!

Monday February 13th was an average day until I was waiting to cross Coots drive in the evening and was witness to a 19yr old girl being hit by a dump truck. I did what I could to help her, stop the bleeding from her head with my sweater and helped the ambulance get her out of there. I then waited for 2hrs in a cop car to be interviewed as a witness. When I left I got interviewed by CH news who pegged me as a hero on the news the next morning (I don't think so, I just did what needed to be done). The next day I found out that the girls name was Heather Watson and that she had died. It turns out that I know tones of people that knew her but never met her myself. Everyone were worried about me and I thank them for it but I'm fine. Erica and Crystal were supper nice and even bought me a new McMaster sweater. Heather’s parents apparently want to talk to me, so I left it to them to contact me.

Friday Feb 17th was another Pie night at James'. We watched Slashers and Doom.
I went home for the first weekend of reading week, rented a car and drove it was great. The DeVillers came over on Sunday to share pictures from their trip to Dominican Republic. Oh Family is so fun.
Oh and as proof that I am now a real grown up (though I might argue that at times) I got a wedding invitation. My own invitation not one with my parents, but my own and I get to bring a guest.
The rest of reading week was work and AYLI production stuff and studying on the weekend. Reading week is much too short for all the things I wanted to get done.


WOW that's enough for now. Just know that this week has been crazy and I only expect the month to get worst.