I got an email from Gayden Wren. :) He has not seen the show yet, but he did in fact read my name. Hopefully he read it in the program first, but then someone evidently sent him an excerpt from my blog. How embarrassing and/or awesome.

He wrote other plays, and books, for the record. The book I found particularly interesting: A Most Ingenious Paradox. It's about Gilbert and Sullivan's creations... The plays, for the record, are Ernest (A musical based on The Importance of Being Ernest) and Baseball, Sex and Other Facts of Life. None of which I've seen...

I'll have to try and see Very Truly Yours, and then the others, I suppose. I find myself somewhat limited, in that most of the musicals I know are Gilbert and Sullivan, and being that they only composed 14 or so.

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On Friday, August 21st, 1903, a man named Schuyler C Kelley was found to have been missing for a number of days. I just thought it was kind of neat, in a creepy sort of way. Luckily, my middle is Bertram, and this was over 100 years ago, so I'm relatively certain that there are no terminators out for me.

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In other news, I've been stumbling around again. I keep changing my mind, what I want to do. I am certain, beyond doubt, that I want to do musical theatre or at least theatre of some sort, and that seems like a solid choice, but I know very well that I want something else. The problem is, the something else I want is everything.

It is times like these that I get depressed, hmm? Thinking about all that I am interested in and curious about--sociology, anthropology, (which covers everything under the sun, so I could stop there, but I won't) computer science, algorithmic science, mathematics although I still despise the simple stuff. It bothers me that the simpler it gets the harder it is for me to do it. (Excepting addition, subtraction and multiplication) Other subjects too, I have a passing interest in.

But going back to the depression, it is because I feel that I will never be able to learn it all. That may be good for me, in that I will never run out of materials to study when I am bored. That's what I do, I think, when I get bored with one thing I move on to the next, but I never finish anything. At this rate, nothing of mine will be finished by a hundred years from now.

I was reading today about Scale-Free Networks, and I intend to read into it further--ways I could make use of it, for example. This is what started me off thinking about mortality and such, although it does directly apply to what I'm doing recently. (A lot of programming. MUSHcoding, but programming nonetheless--I'll finish learning Python one day. (At which point I will make a damn FICS client for FreeBSD that works)) I just don't know how it applies yet.

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I had a dream the other day where I was in a restaurant with my 12 year old brother, and I think 4 guys busted through the windows dressed as Ronald McDonald, brandishing weapons. 12-year old would not shut up, and I got shot for some reason. Grr.

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I'm trying a new thing where I separate subjects by three hyphens, see? I think it's working. I feel slightly more organized already.

A couple of things I forgot. I learned to apply makeup, and apparently our run of G&S Christmas Carol is being recorded for the playwright, Gayden Wren, to watch an critique.

We performed the second act of HMS Pinafore yesterday, for the rehearsal, all still in our Halloween costumes... The show is freaking hilarious that way. Various sailors in dresses, the Captain dressed as Ceasar. Josephine as Little Red Riding Hood, and Ralph as the big bad wolf. Sir Joseph wore a construction worker's uniform, Dick Deadeye was one of the blues brothers, and so on.

NaNoWriMo has begun. I've got a graph for it, look!



Good ol' google! Theoretically that should update as I supply it with new information, but maybe it's a static image. I suppose we'll find out. As I post this, it has a little bit already written... Hopefully that'll disappear, as I was testing it before I posted this.