A long time ago,  I was in a group called the Neo-Futurists, and we did a show called "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind."  (The Neo-Futurists are still doing it, if you're in Chicago and want to go see it).  Basically the premise is this: We did 30 plays in 60 minutes, and we did them in random order every week.  And every week we'd swap out ( Read more... )

Today was a long day.  Its summer, so I have to work late on Wednesdays.  Do I get comp time for this? No.  I got out of work at 7:30, and the one thing that was lovely was that it was still light, in that early-evening-late-afternoon light.  In the winter if I leave work at 4:30 its pitch black out.  So its nice to leave late and have it be light ( Read more... )