More than Enough thought for early morning
I keep having dreams about working in the shop, making the final push to finish a show that is way overdue. It occurs to me this might, just might, have something to do with the pneumatic equipment being used in the adjacent building. There's nothing like the rattle-hiss of an air compressor to wake you up. And since the workers start at 6:30 and I wake up at 7, it's prime dream influencing time. And, I might add, a little pathetic. I keep remembering all those hours sitting on the air compressors staring at drawings or partially built sets and thinking "hmm. what next now that that didn't work?" or "what the hell was/is that?" or "she slept with WHO?".

Spent a fair amount of time at the office yesterday reminiscing about the ghosts of shows past. This was a prompted discussion, not boring ramblings (before you all accuse me of that, justifiably). It made me realize that we haven't had any big disasters for the current kids to claim. Lots of little problems, but nothing that 6 years from now people will still talk about. I mean, what UT-er hasn't heard about the "ass menagerie" even if it closed when they were freshmen in highschool?

It may just be me, but I think the number of UC-ers who went to boarding school is increasing. I keep meeting more first years who I, at some point during the conversation, I ask "did you go to _____". Usually because it is just that obvious, sometimes because they are wearing a t-shirt. I don't know if it's just that I avoided it so much in my post high-school hatred of boarding schools (currently faded to a much more reasonable detachment), but my first two or three years I knew exactly one person who had gone to a boarding school, and that was because she'd been at mine.

Can you statistically analyze greatness? This article from Commentary supports my side of that argument and has a bang-up last paragraph, which is really all I ask for.

I'm so annoyed by all the controversy over the Reagan's miniseries. So they'll probably point out that the man had flaws. Who doesn't? They might question his policies. Sure, and they should. You think a bill clinton miniseries wouldn't assert a whole lot about him? And pure partisanism aside, the whole thing is ridiculous. Just air it. I really doubt it will permanently change many political opinions in this almost-an-election-year. The Republican party seems full of people scared that the perfect image of their heros might get tarnished. Welcome to the real world.
- posted by Heidi @ 7:53 AM