Back in Sane

Okay, so I haven't updated in a while. I'm not gonna try to cover everything in between, but if you're confused ask questions. I do like the commentses. I'm gonna make this a regular thing again going forward.

It's summer. I've moved into the second largest room on hall and will probably stay here for the remainder of my sentence-- er, purgatory-- that is, undergraduate education. My camera's battery is dead or I'd show you a picture. Maybe next time. It's a nice room, and I have it set up pretty well, tho I may want to rotate it about π/2 given that Friday's cast party had people sitting in more of an oval than a circle. Also, I need to build a better bar... the short bookcase is not quite cutting it. But the plan is to make my room and Anthony's adjacent one the ideal Beast Party Sweet (sic), what with his big shiny Barco and my spacious seating and alcove+bar.

I work at the Media Lab now. It's a really cool place to work, what with all the really interesting projects going on everywhere. Emily is working on the third floor on a new kind of motion capture, putting the cameras on the people and the markers around the room instead of the other way around... very cool stuff. I'm working one floor up. More on that in another post.

I just finished the first weekend of Dirty Hands, which went well aside from some video hiccups. For the last few weeks I've been working 9-5 and rehearsing from 6pm until past midnight. But I actually have some time off on several days this week! Then next Saturday is going to be rough, with a matinee followed by an evening performance followed by strike. We're also going to have to take part of the set out following brush-up on Wednesday for another event using the theater Thursday, and put it back in before we open again Friday evening. X-)

Oh, right, and I'm also taking a class. I have to say, as fun as this show has been, it will be a relief to only have a full time job and a class to worry about. Plus I'll get to spend more time with Emily, which is always time best spent. ^_^ Life is good.

Love to all. That's right, even you, you random stranger reading my blog. Sayonara!

Cristen says this post has to be longer than one sentence.

Does the title count? Well, anyway, that was easy.

Last.fm

is really creepy.

Also, I apparently still exist.

This has been tested before, but

it's the short posts that get all the comments, isn't it?

I wonder if DK is tracking my blag...

No. How sad. I suppose The Beast shall never know of my adventures.

Anyways, I suppose I should actually write something of a real post. I've been silent for a while, I know, and it's not been due to lack of excitement. In fact, life has been so exciting and so busy that I just couldn't find time to keep up with this. But now I'm back, and I'll try to make more regular updates.

My first year at MIT has been done for a little over a month now. I'm still slowly getting used to the idea of no problem sets keeping me up all night. What, Yoni's actually getting sleep? Of course not. He's keeping himself busy, as usual. Well, let's see what he's been up to, shall we?

Job. I'm pursuing a UROP over at CSAIL, which is a convenient short walk from EC. Yeah, that's right, even in the summer I'm going to confuse you with acronyms. In short, I'm working on increasing the knowledge base for a natural language question answering system called START. You should go ask START a question.

Show. I've landed the lead role of Henry II in the Shakespeare Ensemble's summer production of Lion in Winter! They also talked me into technical directing. It's going to be one crazy summer. If you can, come see my show! With me building the sets and playing the lead, you've got no excuse not to.

In other news, it's the Fourth of the Seventh of the Seventh of the Millennium. I'll be more impressed when it's the Seventh, but you should go eat sausages wrapped in bread and watch explosives in the sky instead of reading this blog. Why aren't you gone yet?

Something.

Yeah, that's it. What were you expecting?

Children of Eden

What can I say? Opening weekend was simply amazing. Three shows with great energy, played to large, responsive audiences. They laughed, they cried, they gave us a standing ovation every night. What more can we ask for?

Another weekend just like it.

Come see the MIT Musical Theatre Guild production of Children of Eden at one of our final three performances! Reserve tickets now online, or stop by our booth in Lobby 10. You don't want to miss this show.

EDIT: Production photos have been posted on the website! Also, check out The Tech's glowing review (page 5).