November

Geez -- and I thought October was rough... !

The last two weeks at work have been BRUTAL. Luckily, I've been having tons of fun with Josh and friends outside of work to balance out the madness. Well, luckily THAT, AND that my work is big on drinking on the clock, so ... lots of late afternoon drinking to get me through the day... When your boss just starts handing you glasses of wine saying that you deserve it, it's gotta be bad. I've been desparately waiting for Friday since Monday night...

Today, I celebrated Friday with Brian, Teresa, and Josh. We had an excellent dinner at Brian and Teresa's beautiful new flat, then headed out to Beach Blanket Babylon (always a good show), and now we're at home trying to unwind.

Tomorrow, I sleep in as long as I can...

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More or Less

At work this year, we're doing an electronic Christmas card for our clients, families, friends... Our assignment is to take a self portrait, with words or pictures, saying what we'd like to do more or less of in 2010 to make it great. This is mine.

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Jason Alexander

I don't know what this picture is of...

Rick Reynold's Love, God, Sex (and other stuff I don't have) DIRECTED by Jason Alexander... That's what I get for skimming my emails, I thought this show was starring Jason Alexander. He was in the crowd tonight, though!

On the surface, this show was a 90 minute personals ad for a middle aged man looking to get some. :) On a deeper level, it was a glimpse at humanity and what we're all capable of, where we connect, and the humor that is available to us if we choose it.

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American Idiot

This show had one of the most incredible sets I've ever seen. Wallpapered to the ceiling with newspaper, drawings, black and white photos, and old TV sets -- it transported me into the Bay Area underground rock scene instantly. The set was reminiscent of Oakland warehouses I frequented not too long ago (but longer than I wish) to watch The Mass, Lower Forty Eight, Greenlight the Bombers...

Once I got over the set, I was faced with an hour and a half of Green Day.

Now, I like Green Day, but I'm also familiar with why the Bay Area rock scene has sort of rejected Green Day, and the first half of this show felt very... :/ Yeah. Luckily, the second half managed to transcend the "limits", and I found myself quite moved and a bit nostalgic by the end...and I can honestly say that I loved this show.

I was in the wonderful company of Roland and Josh tonight. :)

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tings dey happen

Great show tonight at the Marines Memorial Theater with Steph. A show featuring a white man portraying a slew of characters from Nigeria to comment on the oil industry and how it branches much farther than the Middle East.

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Tommy!

So, I'm unpacking some boxes at the apartment about a week ago and decide to drink wine to lessen the pain. It works. Unpacking becomes less painful... so, I keep drinking wine. Then I get on the phone with my friend Holly from New York. She has some stories to tell, so I listen and continue to drink wine. We talk for maybe an hour and a half and by about 1 in the morning, I'm pretty drunk... I go to bed and wake up to a hangover and the Bay Bridge closure. Yay! My usual 30 minute commute is lost to an hour and a half journey into the city via car, ferry, and Muni.

What does this have to do with Tommy, you ask?

I arrive at work, frantic, with about 15 minutes to solve all of the problems of the morning before a SalesForce guy shows up for a set up and training session. He arrives early. I can't get things done fast enough. I'm desperate for coffee and am not in a good state of mind to be trained. As I sit with my coffee and my lingering hangover, he talks faster than I can keep up with, but manages to mention he's in the middle of opening a show in the city. It's the only thing he says to me that really sticks. Theater? YES.

As the training continues, our mutual passion for theater slips through the cracks of formality until we just go to lunch and gush about how much we love theater. This ends in me getting 2 comp tickets to the show he's produced -- Tommy. It was AMAZING!! The music! The acting! The production quality! The story! The story? The lighting! The set!

The lovely Gabriella joined me for the performance, and I randomly ran into Joan for the second night in a row!

Ah, life. :)

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The Alley

I learned tonight that The Alley opened in the 30s and was eventually bought by a waitress who worked there, and it's stayed "in the family" ever since.

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Full moon

My last day of commuting by ferry.
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Hate Breeders!

My friend Andy is in a great Misfits cover band. This was their 2nd last show ever. :)

I'm missing a picture of Gabriella and Morgan here, but managed to get Maureen and Dave, Andy and Kellie, and Adam and Abby.

Josh's costume was a panda hat and a belt with a handmade knife. Everyone loved him!! Ha! It was so funny!!

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