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October 6, 2003
I haven't updated this journal in about 4 months. Busy, I guess.
This year has been a terrible year for me, health-wise. I?ve just been plagued with illnesses and ailments that required a physician's care. I guess I just have to realize that I'm no longer 25 with the ability to go on 4 hours of sleep.
I remember, when I first moved to Chicago and I was working at Blockbuster from about 8 am to 5pm. I would take a nap in the breakroom and then go across the street to Second City and work from 7pm to 2am and then repeat the process three days out of the week. And even that was easier than the schedule I kept when I (again?) worked at a Blockbuster and did weekend overnights at the radio station ("Mix 94.5!"). It was simple and it never really bothered me. During "Jedi!" I remember a night or two when we were at the theater until 4am and then I just went home slept, ate, showered and got to my temp gig at 8am. I've always found it curious that we treat our cars so much better than ourselves; "what kind of fuel goes in it? Only a specific kind." We don't care too much what we use for fuel for ourselves.
I really enjoy the Black Eyed Peas.
I have two shows running at ImprovOlympic right now and I'm pretty proud of both of them. (descriptions can be found here)
Whirled News Tonight presents Newspeak is a show I'm very proud of. The cast is dynamite and was completely open to my concept and really helped to solidify it through rehearsal experimentation. It really combines three passions of mine; improvisation, news media, and satire. It's been a long time in coming, but I think it was worth the wait. Superlatively smart. We're beginning to cobble together a second, scripted act in anticipation for a sketch show in 2004.
Free Candy! is yet another Halloween show from me. I wrote it and directed it and it?s a big change of pace from previous Halloween outings. This one isn't pop-culture based and I love that we're using Jack Chick religious tracts as a framing device. I love/hate those things. The cast is so great and game for anything. Their ideas have really helped flesh out a bunch of it.
Some of my plans and lifestyle have changed. Areas that have been neglected are going to be re-evaluated and perhaps reinvested in. It's an interesting crossroads to be at. Who knows where I will be in a year? I love that. And I hate that.
Texas Hold Em poker is a current obsession of mine. I'm pretty good at it, though I prefer tournament style (no-limit) over staggered betting. I came in second at a friendly tournament recently and it was one the best times I've ever had. Tripling my entrance fee helped with the enjoyment factor there as well.
Someone posted a journal of their own slamming me and my work at ImprovOlympic. You would think I would be used to that by now. I'm not. I guess the thing that bothered me the most is that this person never once asked me a question about anything he brought up in his journal. He had no trouble asking me questions about a myriad of other topics, but not the ones that, apparently, were bothering him the most. This person also slammed several shows I produce at ImprovOlympic even though he asked (begged!) to be in one once (on his birthday and he did play) and had participated several times in another. I don't mind being critiqued on anything I do in public, especially for shows, but please get all your information correct first. Find out how and why things are and, since you have access, answer your questions. Several of the shows I have been "accused"(?) of having at ImprovOlympic aren't even mine, I just happen to be the coordinator for ImprovOlympic. I shouldn't let people with little brain and less talent get to me but sometimes they do.
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"Drunkeness is simply voluntary insanity." - Seneca the Younger, 4 BC
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