Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam!

From Hotel Cassiopeia:
JOSEPH [sitting at a cafe table]There are days that I will have
a few donuts
a caramel pudding
two cups of Dutch process cocoa all milk, white bread,
peanut butter and peach jam
a Milky Way candy bar
some chocolate eclairs
a half-dozen icing cakes from Bay West
a peach pie (6 cents)
and a prune twist
and, on other days:
cottage cheese, toast,
bologna, jello,
fresh baked shortcake with creamy chocolate icing
Kool Aidbrownies and cherry Coke
a cinnamon donut
homemade coffee cake
the pink centers of Huntley and Palmer shortcake cookies
pancakes

It's no coincidence that some of my favorite passages from this play and bobrauschenbergamerica are all about food. Or that I'm writing this as my stomach grumbles! I'm working reception at a global ad agency right now. Which means there are some foreign hotties walking around.

In the pretentious update....hmmm. What do I have? Ah, yes-- I just got finished with my duties as production assisstant for the Common Thread Theatre Company's workshop production of Moving Shortly. The show ran for three performances, two of which were completely sold-out, which was fun. A whole bunch of friends came: Katy, Emma, Molly (and here's a SHOUT OUT!), Jade, Juls, Lee, Ava, Duke, Liz...punch me if I'm forgetting anyone. The show went quite well, from a technical/production view-- which is the vew that I, as a bona-fide techie, had for it. Michael and I worked sound/projection and lights, respectively. I haven't really touched a light board since the days of the BRTC, when I ran A Lesson Before Dying. I remember it being very stressful, though that could have had somtehing to do with the fact that cast members were dropping out left and right ALL. THE. TIME. Anyway... There were lots of silly antics in the booth, and Michael and I had a good time. There were lots of stupid scrawlings all over the walls- Michael and I added our own contribution: one of those twist-things that everyone used to draw in middle school, accompanied by "'95!' next to it. We were proud.

This is another line I really loved when I saw the show:

Then Balanchine revived The Somnambulist for me
and in that ballethe always had me exit backwards
because you know
well
because I didn't need to see a doorwayto go through it.

I thought it was VERY Judith Chaffee.

I'm going to see The Farnsworth Invention tonight-- it's a play by Aaron Sorkin, starring Hank Azaria. Jess is working for the producers, so she had a bunch of free ticket opportunities during previews. I'm psyched.

Here is a post that I meant to do the other day, but I'll tack it on here and elaborate:

In weird New York City coincidences part 1,586—

I ran into Rebecca McHugh the other night as I was leaving the Bedford stop. I was walking behind this girl and I thought 'She is so put together. Why can't I dress like that?' and then I realized that it was her. I stopped her and we walked out together—she lives two blocks away from me. Strange, isn't it? Then, yesterday, I saw Meghan Dalton's brother Tim in a coffee shop right near my house. We had a big case of mistaken identities when I tried to talk to him that we eventually cleared up....funny funny.

Michael and Nitz and I watched innings 4-9 of the baseball game the other night. We leapt for joy when Youkilis hit that homer. Matt Rudnicki was in the same bar as us, randomly, and we took a lot of pleasure in watching him from afar as he and some girl drank copious amounts of beer and occasionally flashed us the high-sign. Good fun.

Also, speaking of baseball AND coincidences—at work the other day, I was transcribing some phone calls and in one, a guy was talking about eh revitalization of downtowns. He mentioned two cities, and two cities only: Boston and Denver. Oooooooooh!

There is too much glass in this office. Everyone can see that I'm surfing the internet. Oh, dear.....